DSMAZDAGTR
Chieftain
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- Feb 5, 2006
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Well, this is an interesting issue.
I organised the purchase of a brand new system for a friend of mine as their old system would hang when running CIV IV. I assumed it was mainly a video card not being good enough and overheating or something as they had a Athlon 2600+ XP with 1536MB ram but only a GForce 2MX graphics card.
On my 'old' system (mine got upgraded recently too, and my old bits got given to my sister) which was a Athlon 2100+ XP with 1024MB ram and a GForce4 MX440 8x, the game ram just fine. I never once got a single lockup or thrown out or anything (wish I still had it around now to check some of the stats out on it for comparison).
So, with this in mind, I quoted up a new system for my friend. Something with heaps of grunt (he likes football manager style games that require large processing power). So, the following are what are in the system:
Athlon 4400+ 64 X2
Galaxy 256MB 6800GS PCi-E
2048 MB RAM
Windows XP professional SP2
So, pretty much a fresh install (also has football manager on there too now), and he reports to me that he can't play Civ IV. Plays for about 30 minutes, and then the screen goes black, and the LCD monitor reports no source. Sound continues just fine, but the only way out is to hit the HARD power off button on the front, and restart the computer.
So, I got him to try the following actions:
(Being not all that computer literate, I'll have to check at some stage when I can get around there that he's done it all correctly, but assume he has)
1 - Update to civ IV 1.52 release
2 - Download latest drivers from galaxy (appear to be v 78.01)
He didn't get to install those drivers though
3 - Download latest drivers from NVidia (gave him link to v81.98)
Test game.
Apparently this has not helped at all.
I'd personally like to look at it for him, but given that it sounds like testing changes takes a while, it would take me like a whole weekend to get it to be correctly stable for him.
Also of interest, I had no issues running civ IV for hours on end recently on a work laptop while I was interstate. That was a average specced machine with a Mobile Radeon chip (don't remember exact one). So, sounds like the game just doesn't like high specced machines...
I'll have to try the game on my upgraded system and see how it goes.
Athlon Sempron 2800+ 64bit (S754)
GForce 4 MX440 8x
1536MB RAM
I organised the purchase of a brand new system for a friend of mine as their old system would hang when running CIV IV. I assumed it was mainly a video card not being good enough and overheating or something as they had a Athlon 2600+ XP with 1536MB ram but only a GForce 2MX graphics card.
On my 'old' system (mine got upgraded recently too, and my old bits got given to my sister) which was a Athlon 2100+ XP with 1024MB ram and a GForce4 MX440 8x, the game ram just fine. I never once got a single lockup or thrown out or anything (wish I still had it around now to check some of the stats out on it for comparison).
So, with this in mind, I quoted up a new system for my friend. Something with heaps of grunt (he likes football manager style games that require large processing power). So, the following are what are in the system:
Athlon 4400+ 64 X2
Galaxy 256MB 6800GS PCi-E
2048 MB RAM
Windows XP professional SP2
So, pretty much a fresh install (also has football manager on there too now), and he reports to me that he can't play Civ IV. Plays for about 30 minutes, and then the screen goes black, and the LCD monitor reports no source. Sound continues just fine, but the only way out is to hit the HARD power off button on the front, and restart the computer.
So, I got him to try the following actions:
(Being not all that computer literate, I'll have to check at some stage when I can get around there that he's done it all correctly, but assume he has)
1 - Update to civ IV 1.52 release
2 - Download latest drivers from galaxy (appear to be v 78.01)
He didn't get to install those drivers though
3 - Download latest drivers from NVidia (gave him link to v81.98)
Test game.
Apparently this has not helped at all.
I'd personally like to look at it for him, but given that it sounds like testing changes takes a while, it would take me like a whole weekend to get it to be correctly stable for him.
Also of interest, I had no issues running civ IV for hours on end recently on a work laptop while I was interstate. That was a average specced machine with a Mobile Radeon chip (don't remember exact one). So, sounds like the game just doesn't like high specced machines...
I'll have to try the game on my upgraded system and see how it goes.
Athlon Sempron 2800+ 64bit (S754)
GForce 4 MX440 8x
1536MB RAM
