CTD and Reboots fixed by 1.09?

[Fiontar]

I have an AMD 2800, 1 Gig Ram and a Radeon 9600XT. The patch fixed the wonder videos for me, before they would start a scrambled up mess, then play semi correctly, but with the sound stuttering. After the patch no problems there. It also allowed me to load up a couple saved games that previously would cause a reboot if I tried to open them.

However, I'm getting system reboots more often now and earlier in the game. I used to be able to get far into a game on a small map, now I tend to get my reboots early in the second age. So, for critical errors it's a lot wrose.

I also had a Civ 4 caused reboot fry my power supply. It was a PoS Compaq factory standard PS, I'm hoping the new Antec 400 W SmartPower will take any such trauma a lot better, but I'm not sure I want to risk another powersupply to play.

 

[eg577]

The only problems I've ever had (both pre and post patch) are frequent CTD's as the game gets to the middle stages. The only difference that I can see with the new patch is now civ4 will tell me "failed to allocate memory" when I crash instead of just crashing.

 

[阿里巴巴]

It seems fixed my radeon 9800SE. I played 3 hours without CDT. it's great for me.

 

[blackdog64]

P4 3.4ghz
1gig ram
xfx6600gt

Now i get BSOD infinite loop when i try to exit the game!
Not going to play this any more.
Cant be good for the system.

 

[Prometheus_666]

The patch seems to have slightly improved the game speed, and reduced slowdowns *somewhat*, but no the frequency of reboots for me is the same.

 

[WasAGuest]

P4 3.4ghz
1gig ram
xfx6600gt

Now i get BSOD infinite loop when i try to exit the game!
Not going to play this any more.
Cant be good for the system.

Yep, I agree. I have stopped playing as well. I just bought the new video card and I don't want the PSU to fry it with the constant hard reboots (this happened to me in the past - and while it is rare... my luck is just not there these days )

Kinda reminds me of a game release a few years back -- "Pool of [cough] 2" wont say the rest.

 

[Koenig]

After installing 1.09 all seems well so far. I've not had a CTD since installing the patch, save games load faster and scrolling around the map seems smoother. I have a ATI Radeon X300 PCI Expess card, 2.8GHZ Intel CPU with 1Gig Ram.

 

[Palleon]

I have an nVidia 5700 ve, and I was getting a lot of CTD errors in the late game. I installed the patch, and the CTD were just as common, but would cause my video drivers to unload on a CTD. Rolling back from 81.95 to 81.85 seems to have helped a lot, so if you run an nVidia card, and had upgraded your video drivers, I highly suggest going back to an old version, because it seems like 95 doesn't like civ4.

 

[Good_Newz]

For me patch 1.09 sped up game performance but made Civ4 crash every 15 turns. With crashing it completely unloads all my NVIDIA(81.85) drivers....so I get a 800x600 resolution with 256 colors which I cant change then I need to reboot....to restore my original settings....well I guess its waiting till next patch comes out hopefully real soon.........
Does anyone know if the omega drives help...(i read it somewhere on a forum that they solved the crashing problemsss....)?

My specs:
CPU Intel Celeron 2.4GHz
Ram 768 DDR at 333MHz
Video BFG geforce FX 5500 OC with 256 MB ram

 

[阿里巴巴]

Sorry I got another CDT at the end of 1st turn of a loaded game.
So have to say the CDT has not been fixed

It seems fixed my radeon 9800SE. I played 3 hours without CDT. it's great for me.

 

[Matthias73]

The patch fixed nothing... I have crashes and freezings every 10 minutes, so I can only reboot my system... MSI RX800SE, 512 MB RAM, AMD Athlon 1800+, Asus A7V333 Mainboard