mkirchner
Chieftain
My computer has an AMD athalon processor could be a problem when it comes to the crash to desktops.
AMD Processors
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maartena
Warlord
mkirchner said:
In my experience having a different CPU will not cause a program to crash. As mentioned above, its usually a different cause. There may be some issues with the 64bit Athlon chips that I am unaware of, but the game does run on my wife's AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with a Geforce 4 MX 420, albeit a little slow.
Lahdoz said:
I am glad that you can run the game. FYI my computer is fully compatible (more-than), fully virus-free, de-fragged, cleaned, and ALL drivers are updated. CivIV began crashing to desktop immediately, and eventually led to a situation where my computer refused to recognize my video card (ATI 9600). I have never had these kinds of issues before with ANY other game, and to be frank, never expected them from a Firaxis game. Deeply disappointing.
At any rate, am expecting/hoping for a patch, but until then this Bad Boy remains on the shelf and off of my hard drive. Sometimes it really is the programming.......
I've never had any of the problems with other games either. This was the first real problematic game I've had to deal with. I just got it working last night, and I got it on release day. The art pack took care of a few issues, and I did a BIOS update last night, and It was the key for my system.
I only did the BIOS update because I read, on another forum after seraching for an hour, that graphic artifacts can be a symptom of AGP voltage, POS power supplys, over heated GPUs, or funny BIOSs that don't properly handle AGP settings. I had been getting artifacts in 1 other game. I updated the BIOS even though it was only supposed to fix some odd unrelated bug, and it eliminate the artifacts, stopped the crashing, and eliminated the food icon display bug I was having. The game loads, and cycles between turns twice as fast now too.
Go figure that an unrelated fix got it working. I rarely have to update BIOS, and I work with probably 500 different computers every year (no exaggeration).
Nobody should ever have to update a BIOS for a game. Nobody should ever have to re-load an OS for a game. Nobody should have problems with getting a new game to run. A working game that may have minor issues is one thing, but you should at least be able to play it with the bugs the day you buy it.
I only did the BIOS update because I read, on another forum after seraching for an hour, that graphic artifacts can be a symptom of AGP voltage, POS power supplys, over heated GPUs, or funny BIOSs that don't properly handle AGP settings. I had been getting artifacts in 1 other game. I updated the BIOS even though it was only supposed to fix some odd unrelated bug, and it eliminate the artifacts, stopped the crashing, and eliminated the food icon display bug I was having. The game loads, and cycles between turns twice as fast now too.
Go figure that an unrelated fix got it working. I rarely have to update BIOS, and I work with probably 500 different computers every year (no exaggeration).
Nobody should ever have to update a BIOS for a game. Nobody should ever have to re-load an OS for a game. Nobody should have problems with getting a new game to run. A working game that may have minor issues is one thing, but you should at least be able to play it with the bugs the day you buy it.
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