CTDs, game freezes/long pauses, unit responsiveness, and how I solved these problems

the crashes would not bother me except all my SG's are large maps and at end years.

tell me to take a week off civ and I play moo and the latest beta of gal civ2 no problem!!!!

that I'm letting my teams down on the sg's with 5+ crashes per turn is what disturbs me so.
thanks for the heads up as I head Once more unto the breach!!!!@

or the crash... whichever.

Cheers!
-Liq
 
Brother Liq,

I feel for you heartily, for I was there but a day ago - so much gaming goodness, so incredibly suicidally out of reach... obviously the game design was not flawed (Check Soren's notes at end of manual), just the implementation...

You've mentioned MOO and Gal Civ... I heard the latest MOO was a bust out of the gates, did it get better with patches? MOO2 was to die for, but I've learned the hard way to always wait for reviews, and all MOO3 reviews said it sucked. And how about GC2? GC1 was fun in its own way but of course from a small shop. I don't recall any reviews on GC2. If GC1 got boring after 4 weeks, how does GC2 compare?

Yours in good strat, friend - :cheers: - MK
 
not to derail but moo = the original like CIV is to CIV1.
I love the sliders.

moo3 was @#%@#%

as for gal civ2, it's gonna be great, on it's own terms. I beg for them to delay it a year so I can get some sleep :D

and man the crashes in year 2000 large world are just maddening.:sad:

Cheers!
-Liq
 
I have tried everything on this thread and now it CTD faster. As soon as i start any game and click on the second unit the game CTD:mad: what should i try now


My sytem is this
 

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Liq and OD,

If it helps any, I found that moving/renaming the original FPKs after unpacking them, caused a CTD when the game was about finished loading. I had to put the FPKs back in place for it to work. I kept the unpacked stuff under My Documents ... I haven't noticed any speed difference. If I had to do it all over again, I would've just ignored step #4. Civ 4 is stable for me (no CTDs or freezes), although still sluggish, just using the changes to the Ini he mentioned in the first message.
 
ModernKnight,
I lost the orginal. So im going to reinstall it again and leave them there this time. Hope it works
 
Patch V1.52 came out last night, anyone with the above problems should load the patch and come back if stillissues. Access via your game menu, mirrors out soon, all looking good so far. See Civ IV Forum home page for more detail.

Regards
Zy
 
patch cleared it all up

deleated all civ crap and reinstalled, then patched to 1.52 before even making windowed mode defult.

can play that late game 20 stack jetfighters SG np now.. in high detail no less.

am so beat from pulling my hair out last night just gonna crash..

thanks for the kind words in this thread.

Cheers!
-Liq
 
I cant get the patch to install. It cant find civ 4?? Oh yea i also downloaded this game from direct2drive. Ive got other games from them and the work fine. WTH should i do now this game is driving me crazy
 
OD, why not use the in-game updater like Zydor said. Worked for me!

YAY! This patch has cleared up all the issues I had. I can even turn various textures and animations back on, on High quality! I have still kept a few of my Ini changes, like BinkNoSkip (to approximate "snap to") and max frames=30, but otherwise rolled back Ini changes, and it's much smoother. This is finally what it always should have been!

Anyway - thanks drachasor and everyone for assisting in the meantime!
 
OD

Sorry, you will have to wait for a Patch from them,its usually out a few days later than the official patch. Due to the system employed by Drive2, they have to tweek any Patch for any game - not just Civ IV - before it can be used by their customers.

Regards
Zy
 
"I unpacked all of the art files into the custom directory. Then I deleted the Interface folder"

What do you mean by this? I would like to try this suggestion but need better direction.




"I also deleted the camera folder, though I am not sure if it was causing a problem)".


Did you delete everything in the camera folder or was anything moved before deleting?
 
Ok someone please please help me.

My system is more then enough to handle the game, i fear my problem is with my video card. ATI RADEON 9600, the game loads and starts to run perfectly fine. Go glitches, no errors, smooth. Then suddenly after 5 mins or so, i experience a huge problem.

My monitor just shuts off, it just goes to "off mode in 5 seconds". The computer is still on, hell my IPOD is even still charging. When this happens i have forced to rsrt my computer which is a huge hastle. Sometimes before this black screen of death comes up i get this box that says "VPU SYSTEM RECOVERY" or some odd thing. That will keep coming up sometimes and then my screen will go black, i got the latest driver for ATI and this game should be running without randomly crashing, someone please help me.
 
drachasor said:
For those who want to look at it (if anyone does), here's a copy of my CivilizationIV.ini (labeled as a txt so I can upload it). This one has audio disabled, but feel free to enable it if you want to use my ini.

-Drachasor
Click to expand...

Ok I'm new on this forum. I have Civ IV for about a month now, the game is good. But i have the CTS problem when i select my map huge. So i searched this forum and did the 4 things mentioned in this thread :
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=3386995&postcount=260

Now i want to play safe and do the things mentioned in this topic. they said steps 1,2,3,5 and 6. but the things described in step 5 don't occur in your Civ4config.ini file. Drachasor, you uploaded a text file, can you tell me how to change it back in a .ini file? I'm a noob on programming stuff, so if you(or anyone else) could help me out?

I see this topic hasn't been used in a while, but i don't now where to post otherwise. So please help?
 
scheva007 said:
Drachasor, you uploaded a text file, can you tell me how to change it back in a .ini file? I'm a noob on programming stuff, so if you(or anyone else) could help me out?
Click to expand...

all you have to do is rename the file extension from .txt to .ini
however, not sure if what Drach mentioned is applicable to BtS expansion.
guess the best is to stick to what was mentioned in the link you posted.
 
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