crash to desktop when save file close to 2mb

[rashaverak]

Hello,

third game now is crashing for me. It always happen when the saved file is close to 2MB. I am not sure if it has anything to do with it but 3rd time the same means it could. The game first slow down but that is expectable on maps 140x140 with 50 civs. Then when the save is around 1.9 mb it start to crash. At the beginning it crashes each 5th turn but if I keep to reload the game it get worse and worse to the point where I always have just one turn to crash.

event viewer

Faulting application Civ4BeyondSword.exe, version 3.1.9.0, time stamp 0x4a0c27e6, faulting module D3D9.DLL, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e03705, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x000697ed, process id 0x640, application start time 0x01cacd7f43037c38.

game specs

beyond the sword 3.19
mod rise of mankind 2.9
no sound, lowest details, tried full-screen and also windowed

system specs

vista x64 sp2 fully patched
8gb ram
nvidia 275 gtx
intel 8300


I tried to reinstall the dx9, tried to play with civ4.ini like

; Enable D3D9 Queries
D3D9Query = 0

tried the paging file turn off or to put there like 20GB, nothing helps

I went through this forums but didnt find anything what would help me

it doesnt crash at all before the saved file is 1.9 mb

edit:

- tried to change affinity of the process to use just 1 cpu, set priority to highest (realtime) didnt help
- tried to look forr the update kb 75... didnt find it so it is not installed as was recommended

 

[rashaverak]

after 2 more games I think I know the problem, it doesnt have anything to do with the 2 mb of save file. The simple reason is if I play maps where height or width is overwritten with more than the standart for huge maps, for example 140x140 then it starts to crash after some time, if I play on standart huge map I think 128x80 it doesnt happen even if the game slow down to the point when 1 turn takes 2 minutes (with the revolution mode and about 50 civs it unfortunatly went this direction), it is still stable.