Civ 5 hangs on app load

[oawiefga]

I've already fixed this and thought I would share what I found.

Played Civ5 for a couple thousand hours and over the weekend the DX11 versions stopped working following an appcrash. DX9 continued to work fine.

Deleted the game and reinstalled. Upgraded drivers. Applied microsoft update. Reinstalled DX9 and DX11 drivers. Checked to be sure I wasn't in compatability mode. Ran chkdsk /f /r /x. None of these things corrected the problem.

Turning off Fraps fixed it. I never would have guessed that it could cause a problem and wouldn't have figured it out except that I found a post from someone on another forum via google.

This is the description of the problem that windows 7 reported.


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Description:
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: CivilizationV_DX11.exe
Application Version: 1.0.3.80
Application Timestamp: 52171629
Hang Signature: af46
Hang Type: 2048
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Hang Signature 1: af462457c91438cc10570fe952f5c7c4
Additional Hang Signature 2: e049
Additional Hang Signature 3: e04930ae48d3df3ea3c70098e3fb9223
Additional Hang Signature 4: af46
Additional Hang Signature 5: af462457c91438cc10570fe952f5c7c4
Additional Hang Signature 6: e049
Additional Hang Signature 7: e04930ae48d3df3ea3c70098e3fb9223

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