Crashes a few turns into the game? Possible solution: Turn down leader graphics

[Worm4real]

Hi, I just wanted to make a thread about a problem I experienced on my brother's system and later solved. He was getting crashes 10 to 20 turns into the game. After turning down all the settings I noticed the save which was crashing didn't crash however he would soon meet another leader around when he was crashing. So I turned the other settings back up and left the leader graphics at low. This allowed him to continue playing without crashes.

Hopefully anyone having this problem isn't getting as frustrated as he was. If you find your game crashing randomly a few turns in but don't notice yourself running into any opponents try turning down the leaders as it may be the cause. He's running the game via steam, so whether this is a game issue, system issue, or steam issue really isn't clear at this point.

I have no problem with leaders above low on my machine.

Moderator Action: Edited title for clarification.

 

[albbi]

I created an account just to say thank you! This was exactly the problem I was having.

I couldn't figure out why the game was crashing on the same turn every time I loaded from an auto-save. You saved my release day experience!

 

[Geek113377]

Welcome to civfanatics albbi! my game is crashing too, but sinece it's already on the lowest settings, I can't fix it in the same way as mentioned by Worm4real

 

[Maxor127]

I'll try it. I haven't really crashed while being several turns in, but I crash a lot while reloading. Maybe I'd crash after a bunch of turns if I didn't always reload before then.

 

[kaltorak]

It may been fixed or he may just crash later. In my case the crashes can happen on turn 5 or 50. Don't think it's leader related since I speak with them without problems

 

[klokwerk]

Same thing here, I love the game but in my French / Prince game, it crashes on turn 125 while the AIs are thinking (screen freezes except the mouse pointer, music stops).

If I go back on a save 20 turns earlier then just skip the turns, it still crashes at the same turn (after turn 125).

Here is the save. Anybody got an idea how to fix that ? Got an AMD X4 and an ATI Radeon HD 5750. Problem occurs both in Direct X 9 AND Direct X 11 version. OS is Windows 7 64 bit version.

Thanks for your help, especially if 2K see that and fixes the bug.

If anybody wants to test this file and just click on 'next turn' and see if it hangs too, it would be greatly appreciated too.