Civ 4 Complete causes BSOD's all over the place...HELP!!!

[mmobley1]

Hey all. I just got Civ 4 complete edition (had Civ 4 original before). And I am playing my first game on BTS. Everything is fine for a while, but then it starts crashing my whole PC (Stop errors). The errors run from eveything to page fault, memory management, driver IRQL..... and they won't stop!!! The only game thats crashing on my computer. Tried getting updates on the programs and they won't install. Please help!

Running Windows XP Pro SP3 (fully updated).
AVG 9.0 Free edition.
Intel Pentium 4 Processor (3.0 Ghz HT)
2 GB ram.
ATI Radeon X1650 512 MB video card (updated to Catalyst 9.8 according to site).

I have dropped my processes down to petty much nothing, and disabled my dual monitor...... helps somewhat but still getting bad crashes. Any assistance would be appreciated.

 

[ori]

could you post the error messages that are contained in the blue screens? they should be logged in the windows event manager.

 

[mmobley1]

Sure, one of the Error events is missing. In that case I posted its bugcheck instead. These are the last 4.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 11/15/2009
Time: 8:58:30 PM
User: N/A
Computer: MIKE
Description:
Error code 0000001a, parameter1 00003451, parameter2 c028b584, parameter3 893285a0, parameter4 00000000.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 31 0000001
0020: 61 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d a Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 30 30 eters 00
0030: 30 30 33 34 35 31 2c 20 003451,
0038: 63 30 32 38 62 35 38 34 c028b584
0040: 2c 20 38 39 33 32 38 35 , 893285
0048: 61 30 2c 20 30 30 30 30 a0, 0000
0050: 30 30 30 30 0000

Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 11/13/2009
Time: 2:30:41 AM
User: N/A
Computer: MIKE
Description:
Error code 100000c5, parameter1 70566343, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000001, parameter4 80551ae2.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 63 100000c
0020: 35 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d 5 Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 37 30 eters 70
0030: 35 36 36 33 34 33 2c 20 566343,
0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 32 00000002
0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000
0048: 30 31 2c 20 38 30 35 35 01, 8055
0050: 31 61 65 32 1ae2

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Save Dump
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 11/13/2009
Time: 2:28:22 AM
User: N/A
Computer: MIKE
Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x100000c5 (0x70566343, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x80551ae2). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini111309-01.dmp.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 11/8/2009
Time: 11:14:07 PM
User: N/A
Computer: MIKE
Description:
Error code 100000d1, parameter1 8b138e1c, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000001, parameter4 f7637e56.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 64 100000d
0020: 31 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d 1 Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 38 62 eters 8b
0030: 31 33 38 65 31 63 2c 20 138e1c,
0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 32 00000002
0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000
0048: 30 31 2c 20 66 37 36 33 01, f763
0050: 37 65 35 36 7e56

 

[ori]

ok those seem to be mostly related to memory problems and programs (usually drivers) trying to access memory that they should not - are your graphcis card drivers uptodate?

 

[mmobley1]

According to ATI's site they ae up to date. However, this is ATI we are talking about and while I have installed the latest version (9.8) the ATI CCC still says they are 9.3 drivers...... so god only knows if they are woking right.

I heard something about a second set of drivers for ATI cards (Omega). Any thoughts?

 

[ori]

omega drivers sometimes work wonders - so I'd give it a try.
apart from that I find some suggestions to check your memory for any damage

e.g. use memtest (http://www.memtest.org/#downiso) on a boot cd or bootable usb device and let it run overnight - see if that finds anything

these errors seem to be unique in combination with this game so far