Crash V: Now More Crashes than Ever!
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builer680
eats too much Taco Bell
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Fair enough, I shouldn't have said "only."
bryanw1995
Emperor
you could very possibly have bad ram. that would have fouled your update install for sure. also, could be poor cpu cooling/ventilation.
RAM was tested. Cooler Master V8 after-market cooler. Cores running at 50-55 degrees under Civ V load (~40 while idle), so 45-50 from TJ Max. It isn't RAM and it sure isn't poor cooling and my case is a Cooler Master CM 690 II Advanced with three 140MM fans.
Trust me, it ain't the hardware.
Trust me, it ain't the hardware.
Hasn't it already been established it was fixed by updating drivers? Why is there still diagnosis going on?
Jolly Rogerer
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A lot of people didn't get a chance to beat their dead horses yet.
Teperi Blaze
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I still play on win 98xp and it can only use 2 gb of ram and no crashes.
Win98xp is for games though and any background program can make a fuss.
Dx9 is all I can use though, but the game is working and so are all the other old games.
I know, I will HAVE to change one day, but not today!
Win98xp is for games though and any background program can make a fuss.
Dx9 is all I can use though, but the game is working and so are all the other old games.
I know, I will HAVE to change one day, but not today!
For me computer started to ragequit when I nuked enemies in vicinity. Strangely enough, they worked just fine when used deeper where I couldn't see. Never had this problem before. OTOH it was my first game with quick combat (if that matters).
Otherwise patch has been clearly improvement for playability.
Otherwise patch has been clearly improvement for playability.
Not as surprising as you might think. Most games these days are graphics limited and will not push the cpu to full load. Civ5 on the other hand, assuming one has an up-to-par graphics card, is in most cases going to be cpu limited. It also doesn't make use of more than 2 cores very well, unlike most recent games from big publishers.
In short, if there's any game that will push your cpu hard, it's civ5.
How do you use Steam to verify Civ's files for integrity?
I both love and hate the game. Even on standard size maps, it always will crash, usually in the industrial era. I have updated drivers. I think it is too many units that kills me, usually as I am building up the army to invade. I have never finished a Civ 5 game, or a Civ 4. I am assuming memory leaks like 4 had.
I have a decent system Intel Core i7 950, 6 gb ddr3, 1gb gts 450 video card, Win 7 64 bit.
I both love and hate the game. Even on standard size maps, it always will crash, usually in the industrial era. I have updated drivers. I think it is too many units that kills me, usually as I am building up the army to invade. I have never finished a Civ 5 game, or a Civ 4. I am assuming memory leaks like 4 had.
I have a decent system Intel Core i7 950, 6 gb ddr3, 1gb gts 450 video card, Win 7 64 bit.
right click on the game and its under options i think. This game crashes far too much on far too many systems. I believe it's the result of bad QA and laziness.
Civsassin
Immortal
I play it on a Sony Viao laptop with a Core i5 processor and 4gb RAM, and an HP desktop duel core processor with an average graphics board and 4gb RAM. The laptop has never crashed, and the desktop crashed maybe three times since game release. That was mainly due to me leaving it run too long without a restart. The key I believe is having adequate RAM.
