Any suggestions?

[FlyPelican]

I have a new computer here:

Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI
Athlon 64 3500+
1 GB Corsair
GeForce 6800GT
2x 36GB Raptors in RAID

Nice build, though I'm experiencing many of the same problems exhibited by others on the forums with machines 3 years older.

Started a game on Huge World Size. Around 400 AD have 5 cities, ~20 Units, contact with 8 civs. Game has allready started bogging down, and i've had a few blue screen crashes so far.

Just did a clean windows install. Updated video and motherboard drivers. Haven't tried SP2 yet, because I didn't really like it last time I installed it. This help?

Also, saw people suggesting to change the shader settings in DirectX. Not sure how to do this, but did anyone have any look with this?

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. With this system build I still expect top line performance from new games.

 

[FlyPelican]

Began a new game. 15 minutes into the game, Standard size Island map, 2 cities, about 5 units, met a new civ and engaged in diplomacy. Agreed to open borders. Next turn... Blue Screen Crash. No Tech Details listed on blue screen.

 

[Old Dood]

Sounds like a memory crash of some kind. No offense, I never cared for Corsair memory. Try it with one stick of memory. (assuming you have two). You could be memory leaking too.

Also the SP2 might help....that is a pure guess though.

Still blue screens always are memory problems when I have them.

Is this a home built system? If not what brand is the computer?

 

[Tempete]

Sounds like a memory crash of some kind. No offense, I never cared for Corsair memory. Try it with one stick of memory. (assuming you have two). You could be memory leaking too.

Also the SP2 might help....that is a pure guess though.

Still blue screens always are memory problems when I have them.

Is this a home built system? If not what brand is the computer?

Corsair is up there with the Kingston brand, and is sometimes better

Two sticks of RAM is better than one if you have dual channel and a matching pair.

As with the crashes, it is likely caused by memory leak in the game's poor coding I don't think you can do much about it until the devs fix the code. Well actually you could probably add in another gig of RAM, but that'd just delay the crashing lol.

 

[FlyPelican]

I can't say I've ever had a problem with Corsair. It's a home built system, i've always used Corsair and found it to be reliable. Running dual sticks of 512, can't see taking one out as a solution.

Though I must say after my last crash, I reloaded and played for 2-3 hours into an endgame with no problems.