Dear Firaxis, your game is crashing on almost every platform

[Linklite]

I've never timed it...but it's not much longer than 2 minutes, if at all. I generally don't just play Civ these days, though. I'll put a film on, take my turn, then just watch the film until my turn is ready again. I don't have the patience or time to play just Civ anymore - two young kids make you value your lone time more than that!

 

[Ordnael]

I don't have kids...yet. But I understand not just playing CIV VI. I dislike myself for engaging in some other activity to fill those 2 minutes plus downtime, but as the game drones on it just happens. Then I start forgetting stuff I wanted to do in my turn and eventually the game becomes more of a chore I must finish. The old love early game, hate late game!

 

[Leyrann]

I don't have kids...yet. But I understand not just playing CIV VI. I dislike myself for engaging in some other activity to fill those 2 minutes plus downtime, but as the game drones on it just happens. Then I start forgetting stuff I wanted to do in my turn and eventually the game becomes more of a chore I must finish. The old love early game, hate late game!

Is this because you're playing on huge maps or an older PC?

I'm playing on an admittedly new and pretty good laptop, albeit not designed for games, and (using fast movement and such) I have waiting times of like 10 seconds at most between turns on standard-sized maps. And in the early game it's like two seconds.

 

[HiRezAudio]

That's strange. I have it on the Switch, and I've just done two Huge Earth TSL games, I think it crashed maybe twice between them? Plus I managed to screw up the game once so I had to reload a save (I mention it because it only happened due to poor coding). The first game went to 210 turns, the second got to 1890 on Standard speed (I don't remember the number of turns), and were fine.

I've also found that speeds were better after NFP. That's not to say that they're good now, but better. I can't go downstairs, make a sandwich, come back and find that it's still processing the turn anymore.

I find it strange that the PS4 would struggle more than the Switch, and your PC is even more strange.

You find it strange?
How do you think I feel?

Not that Firaxis give a damn about fixing any bugs now - Civ 7 is in full swing there judging by the recent hires

 

[Tech Osen]

In my last game it froze twice in the mid game, and then I conquered half the world without an incident. That doesn't seem like a memory leak.
Huge map on PC.

 

[aieeegrunt]

I don't have kids...yet. But I understand not just playing CIV VI. I dislike myself for engaging in some other activity to fill those 2 minutes plus downtime, but as the game drones on it just happens. Then I start forgetting stuff I wanted to do in my turn and eventually the game becomes more of a chore I must finish. The old love early game, hate late game!

Just set the game to end after 200 turns or so, you skip the late game micro torture, a lot of the crashing, etc

 

[Leyrann]

Just set the game to end after 200 turns or so, you skip the late game micro torture, a lot of the crashing, etc

I don't know about you, but I play on a difficulty level (Deity) where I'm not reliably ahead of the AI in score by turn 200.

Also, crashing? I've played about 300 hours in the last few months (all after the most recent patch, whenever that was), while running sometimes as many as dozens of mods, and I think I've had a grand total of one crash in those 300 hours. Maybe even zero, my memory on the crash is vague enough that I'm not sure.

 

[Henri Christophe]

I never finished a game in civ6 because it always crash before the end in my pc.

 

[Ordnael]

Is this because you're playing on huge maps or an older PC?

I'm playing on an admittedly new and pretty good laptop, albeit not designed for games, and (using fast movement and such) I have waiting times of like 10 seconds at most between turns on standard-sized maps. And in the early game it's like two seconds.

No and no. Just playing standard maps on my Nintendo Switch. Late game it gets really slow.

 

[Mithadan]

@Mithadan
I was curious for a game on a huge map, how much time do you wait between the end of your turn and the beginning of your next turn.

Oh, maybe a few minutes? It's not very bad at all. I haven't gotten very far past the Renaissance before it crashes every turn, at which point I pretty much give up. I think the next game I play, I'm gonna run it Vanilla without any expansions at all.

 

[E.man]

Still happening still annoying and I'm still trying to remember to manual Quick Save. When I forget after a turn of complex decisions..... crash.... not happy.

It sends a crash report to *Microsoft * !?

 

[Beagles]

I own all the Civ 6 DLC. With R&F and GS installed the game is unplayable because it crashes constantly. With all the other DLC (but without R&F and GS) the game is rock solid and never crashes. I’m playing on two Alienware gaming laptops with windows 11 installed, one laptop is four years old the other one is brand new.

 

[Ordnael]

I own all the Civ 6 DLC. With R&F and GS installed the game is unplayable because it crashes constantly. With all the other DLC (but without R&F and GS) the game is rock solid and never crashes. I’m playing on two Alienware gaming laptops with windows 11 installed, one laptop is four years old the other one is brand new.

I find it weird that the game is crashing so often on PC according to such testimonies. I rarely experience a crash on the Nintendo Switch...slow as can be yes (specially from standard to bigger maps)...crash no so much!

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[SammyKhalifa]

I've been getting crashes since upgrading my graphics card. I have all the drivers updated of course, and it's strange to me because the new one is much more capable.

edit--to be clear at this point I'm not blaming the game, it's just where I've seen it happen. I still need to investigate the issue and mess with settings, etc. a little more.

 

[reddishrecue]

Just wait, there will someday be better specs that will improve game performance just like civilization 6 because civilization 4 used to have performance issues to me as well in the old p4 computer but now with all the new advances in specs for computers, civ 4 runs better. I expect something similar to happen with civ 6.

 

[Naokaukodem]

Just wait, there will someday be better specs that will improve game performance just like civilization 6 because civilization 4 used to have performance issues to me as well in the old p4 computer but now with all the new advances in specs for computers, civ 4 runs better. I expect something similar to happen with civ 6.

I don't think it will improve. It may instead degrade. PC compatibility tends to vary with age. We even need external programs to run some (Dosbox) and others will have bugs on modern material like the original StarCraft. (unreadable colors)
As I said I have a 2010 PC and have no crash whatsoever with vanilla or GS. On the other hand I don't get why it's unplayable for some people on consoles. (especially the Switch) Maybe identify the DLCs acquired ?

 

[reddishrecue]

I don't think it will improve. It may instead degrade. PC compatibility tends to vary with age. We even need external programs to run some (Dosbox) and others will have bugs on modern material like the original StarCraft. (unreadable colors)

That does happen in brood war, I agree but it doesn't happen in civ 4. I'm not sure about Starcraft 2 working like that. As for civ 6, and the future, we're going to have to see what happens.

As I said I have a 2010 PC and have no crash whatsoever with vanilla or GS. On the other hand I don't get why it's unplayable for some people on consoles. (especially the Switch) Maybe identify the DLCs acquired ?

You must have a good 2010 PC then. However, I don't recall saying I have issues on the switch other than recording issues where the victory or defeat doesn't go up on the hall of fame.

 

[E.man]

Just wait, there will someday be better specs that will improve game performance just like civilization 6 because civilization 4 used to have performance issues to me as well in the old p4 computer but now with all the new advances in specs for computers, civ 4 runs better. I expect something similar to happen with civ 6.

Brand new decent laptop Win 10 for a game half a dozen years old ?

 

[reddishrecue]

Brand new decent laptop Win 10 for a game half a dozen years old ?

Hey, civ 6 would most likely work better on a laptop that's on win 10 than on a laptop that's half a dozen years old which most likely also has a more primitive os.

 

[E.man]

So fed up with it I went and did something else.

Downloaded a game from another designer. Screw it.