CIV5 is crashing much more frequently than usual

[Horizons]

For me ... it might possibly be my old (circa 2009) hardware and a confuddled Windows installation, too much internal dust, or something like that ... but anyway for the firstyear of playing I had hardly any crashes, but now I am losing games fairly frequently due to non-recoverable crashes ... strangely this all started after I went from Marathon to Normal speed games ...

 

[geoffdav02]

I am having the same problem with crashes, some as soon as 5 min play, I am not sure what is causing it. It only occurs with Civ V

 

[FeiLing]

...too much internal dust...

I misread that as 'internet dust' first

Now, wherever your dust is, remove it wherever possble (while the PC is off). Cotton swabs are very useful for this.

You also might wanna check your temperatures for CPU and GPU before (while the game runs for some minutes) and after you did that. Programs for that could be GPU-Z and maybe something like SpeedFan.

Updating your drivers might also help.

 

[Horizons]

lol, as an interim solution I set my turn interval for autosaves from the default of 10 to 1. Now I will not lose as many games.