anyone having problems

[Finarfin]

Looks like I may have spoken too soon. I'm getting some artifacts such as invisible units and grey bars (akin to solid 'rays' of light).

EDIT: And it crashed when I tried to exit the game.

I'm getting some invisible units, too, and grey bars that just flash crazily all over the screen. And when my first colony completes it's first building task the monitor goes crazy trying to switch video modes and then I get the Vista application terminated nonsense. Any ideas on what settings, game or card, can overcome this?

 

[Shurdus]

I'm getting some invisible units, too, and grey bars that just flash crazily all over the screen. And when my first colony completes it's first building task the monitor goes crazy trying to switch video modes and then I get the Vista application terminated nonsense. Any ideas on what settings, game or card, can overcome this?

these issues might be fixed with setting all graphic setting to the minimum.

 

[Finarfin]

these issues might be fixed with setting all graphic setting to the minimum.

That's what I eventually had to do, and that will be suitable. Even with all of the settings at the mins the game still looks better than a lot of other products. This game was always one of my favorites, bested in most time played only by Alpha Centauri. Now that would be an awesome remake, and one I would buy sight unseen.

 

[Lord Cain]

Vista Home Premium here

With it installing with default and a lower screen then my monitor uses I reset to the 1680x1050

Game then crashed after selecting nation and leader and continue

Resolution:

Medium not High Setting and Low Graphics Terrain

My Store Bought comes with 256 MB (system Ram shared)
Intel graphics media accelerator 950

Thing is with Civ 4 or even beyond the sword I can use High graphics and high graphics terrain without
a problem

I did note that Colonization uses Shader 1.1

 

[ToFro]

Hi there,

I got Civ IV: Colonization last friday. It stopped working for the first time after 15 minutes of play. It then worked for at least 5 hours over the next few days. After 2 blue screens in one session, I updated my video card drivers from 175.? to 178.3. Now the game stops working once every 15 minutes, but no more blue screens.
Since Colonization was pretty much impossible to enjoy, I started a new Civ IV game instead. After 15 minutes of play, Civ IV crashed as well. I tried out different video settings for a few hours, but I have given up for now. I think I'll wait for a new video driver or a patch, playing with constant crashes is just no fun.

OS:
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP1

H/W:
Asus P5N-E SLI ATX Motherboard
Asus EN7900GT 256Mb (Nvidia, supposedly vista ready)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Processor
2GB of Kingston HyperX RAM

 

[Petermccc]

Looks like I may have spoken too soon. I'm getting some artifacts such as invisible units and grey bars (akin to solid 'rays' of light).

EDIT: And it crashed when I tried to exit the game.

I have the same problem with a Vista Home OS. I think it's a problem with the DivX software.

I'm soldiering thru it though just to see what neat tricks are in the game.

 

[Barns]

After having no system problems at all when winning on all the other levels I've just got to 73 turns away from the end of my first Revolutionary game and it looks like I will win within that time and I've started getting "Colonization has stopped working" at exactly the same point.

I've reloaded several earlier autosaves and tried to play through but as it clicks round from 1719-1720 I get the same error. I've tried at least 25 times and done different actions every time to see if I can carry on but it just keeps crashing. Maybe it's something to do with the autosave it tries to do at that point??

Any ideas? Dunno if I can be bothered to play it all through again since I'll only end up doing exactly the same thing!

I'm on Vista Home Premium, Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 2.2GHz, 2 gig of RAM if that helps.

 

[petermcc]

I haven't had a problem getting to the end of the game but I can only run it at low rez.

Updating to SP1 for Vista Home Premium didn't help. In fact I had to roll back out of it. With SP 1 installed I only managed to get half a dozen turns in before the laptop hung totally.

I'm using a Toshiba Satellite A200 with 2 Gig of ram

 

[IfNecessary]

Change: Re-enabled effects
Result: Crash to Desktop

Change: Set level of detail to meduim (disables 'High Detail Terrain' and enables 'Globe View Buildings Disabled')
Result: Works okay

Change: Disabled 'Globe View Buildings Disabled' (so globe view buildings are enabled)
Result: Works okay

Change: Enabled 'High Detail Terrain'
Result: Works okay

So at least in my case the problem is not the particle effects (at least not the medium detail particle effects), high detail terrain or the globe view buildings.

Finally, thanks to tinkering like you suggested, I no longer have invisible units after loading a save. Indians where you could see only bow & arrows, or pioneers where you could see only their tools working, was a real drag. Lowering the grafix a bit was all it took, and I can't even notice any lessening in quality.

So many thanks. Now I can play it again.

 

[snortdog]

Like several others I couldn't get past the initial character page until I reset my graphics resolution. Now I'm wondering if that's why some of my other games won't run on Vista.

 

[Tyharo]

I had the same problem and after much tinkering I found that disabling particle effects fixes it.

Hope this helps!

i bet that would fix it but how do you disable paticle effects?

 

[Supr49er]

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