Civ 5 is not responding and needs to close

[N3XUS12]

Hey guys, I have decided to sign up here and ask for help due to a problem I have with Civ 5, which is making the game unplayable for me.

Firstly, specs;

Custom built PC with windows 8 pro
AMD FX 6100 six core processor, 3.3GHz
4GB RAM
460GB Hard Drive
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS (two of them)
All drivers are up to date; display drivers, sound drivers, graphics card drivers, you name it.
I have DirectX 11

Now my problem. I simply cannot play the game, for more than maybe 20 minutes, without recieving the error message 'civ 5 has stopped responding' followed bya quick closure of the game. This happens on both the dx 9 and the 10/11 startup option, however the game lasts longer on dx9. Sometimes I may be able to play around 45 minutes before it happens on 9, however on 10/11 I don't think I have ever completed a turn.

Initially the problem was different. I used to get graphics renderer error crashes until I updated my drivers, and now it simply seems that I have fixed that problem and came up with another. I am confused because I can play planetside 2 on good settings without problems, I just do not understand why civ 5 will not work properly. I read somewhere that the nvidia GTS series has problems with civ, is that the problem?

Any help would be great and I can provide more info if nessecary, thanks

 

[The_J]

8800 series had in general a problem, not connected to Civ, but with some faulty memory, if I remember it correctly. Not all were affected, so we can't be sure if this is also your problem.

You should probably check if the graphic card fans are all working, and for testing purposes also deactive one of the cards.
Else....


Oh, and the GeForce 8800 series does not support DX11, just max. 10, and the game is not really optimized for DX10. Therefore it's definitely better for you (or better said: Your graphics card) to run it in DX9 mode, is probably less stressful.