civ4 keeps crashing my comp & restarting it

[terrybozz]

can anyone help me please, i just got civ4 but everytime i try and play it. it either crashes my comp or restarts it. can anyone help me please.

 

[Tatran]

I'm facing the same problem after a clean installation,however civ4
didn't crash before as far as I can remember.
The first crash was after building a wonder,the Oracle.No movie,but
a crash.Installing a DivX version solved that problem.
Maybe updating the videodrivers will help,but it can cause a new problem
as it did in my case.
The game did still crash 1 or 2 times during a whole game,so thank
God there is an autosave.

 

[Wolfwood]

Try Harkonnen's fix. It worked for me and the game is stable now.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=146309

 

[sam0t]

If your machine is rebooting itself, it usually is something else than just the program. Try running memtest86+ and Prime95 as torturetest for many hours. If you systems is stable with them, then I might suspect Civ4 as the cause of rebooting.

You can find both programs easily with google.