LemurLepke
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- Sep 6, 2007
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Hello,
First let me start out by saying that I've searched the forums for a solution to my problem. There seem to be a few similar issues, but the resolution that has been come to either doesn't apply to me or doesn't solve my problem. If I'm a completely daft idiot and have missed the obvious, I apologize.
I've been playing Civ IV since the day it came out. I've never had any problems with the original version, with any of its patches, or with the Warlords add-on. I've literally spent hundreds of hours playing this wonderful game without issue. After a 6 month break, I decided to start playing again once the Beyond the Sword add-on was released. I've updated all versions of the games to all of the latest patches listed on the Civfanatics downloads page.
Since I started playing the recent add-on, I've had the problem where my computer will shut down randomly every couple of minutes of game time. I've had times where I could play 30 or 40 turns before it shut down. Or sometimes I've had it shut down within 4 or 5 turns. Essentially what happens is the game closes without my aid, and a second later my comptuer goes into shut down mode. It then turns off completely. I'm not sure why this is happening, as it's never been a problem before. Unfortunately, not only is it happening with the BtS add-on, but it's also happening when I load up the Warlords game. As I said before, I had previously never seen this happen with Warlords after many hours of play, so I'm thinking it must be a recent patch that is causing my problems.
I've included a zipped folder with both the dxdiag text and MSinfo text. Please help me out in any way that you can.
Thanks for any assistance you may be able to give me.
Nate
First let me start out by saying that I've searched the forums for a solution to my problem. There seem to be a few similar issues, but the resolution that has been come to either doesn't apply to me or doesn't solve my problem. If I'm a completely daft idiot and have missed the obvious, I apologize.
I've been playing Civ IV since the day it came out. I've never had any problems with the original version, with any of its patches, or with the Warlords add-on. I've literally spent hundreds of hours playing this wonderful game without issue. After a 6 month break, I decided to start playing again once the Beyond the Sword add-on was released. I've updated all versions of the games to all of the latest patches listed on the Civfanatics downloads page.
Since I started playing the recent add-on, I've had the problem where my computer will shut down randomly every couple of minutes of game time. I've had times where I could play 30 or 40 turns before it shut down. Or sometimes I've had it shut down within 4 or 5 turns. Essentially what happens is the game closes without my aid, and a second later my comptuer goes into shut down mode. It then turns off completely. I'm not sure why this is happening, as it's never been a problem before. Unfortunately, not only is it happening with the BtS add-on, but it's also happening when I load up the Warlords game. As I said before, I had previously never seen this happen with Warlords after many hours of play, so I'm thinking it must be a recent patch that is causing my problems.
I've included a zipped folder with both the dxdiag text and MSinfo text. Please help me out in any way that you can.
Thanks for any assistance you may be able to give me.
Nate