Dumps to Desktop late in Game

[RedWormCharlie]

Game settings :

Huge Map
3 conts
10 AI opponents

Athalon 3000+ 64 XP
1 gg ram
radeon 9550
120 gig storage
all latest drivers.
did the gay haxor fix

So it reaches about 1900 AD and I'm whippin' ass. I done used the same save to beat it three different ways. HOO HA. 2 AI oppents are dead by me and the others survive on 2 other conts.

Yet the second I hit the modern era and some how some way I'm up an entire era on the world the game dump every five turns. Almost religiously.

The dumps wouldn't be specific either. I would click on another unit and dump. Click to negotiate, dump, scrol the screen and dump. Well either way I was forced to save it turn by turn to rule out the crappy 20 yr autosave. So this is a big problem cause my ram wasn't being jeopordized. It was only using 500 some mg and my card was only up 200 mg usage. The autosave I'm used to saves every turn. My comp is fast enough to deal with an everyturn autosave.

Anyway I kept the save if anyone ind evelopement wants it to run on a comp equal to mine and see if they get the same probo.

 

[gunnergoz]

You can change autosave to each turn in the .ini file, FWIW. Have you tried turning down the graphics settings and deleting the cache files before each game? That has helped me play longer and longer games without CTD. I have a P4 and nVidia rig, but the CTD problems seem to be unrelated to video cards brand, in some ways. I also changed the .ini (per a suggestion from another nVidia specific thread) to lock framerate to 40 instead of no lock...I think that's helping me, perhaps it will help you too. You haven't mentioned your graphics settings for the game, but try setting them to low and AA to zero. Exit, scrub the cache files, reboot the game and see how it works. I also periodically do a PC restart to purge the general cache and the video card cache, just in case. Good luck.

 

[KniteFlux]

I have half the ram you have and my game does the same thing on maps half the size you are playing on in the late game. Probably something to do with the memory leak in the game.

As suggested by gunnergoz, turn on auto-save, reboot game, etc etc... or you can just play smaller maps. Since I've started playing nothgin larger than a Small Map, I've had absolutely no more of these problems. With your gpu and ram, you could probably get away with playing a Standard (maybe Large) size map until the leak is patched.

 

[ajellybeanpixie]

It seems lame though to just play smaller games.
I'm having the same problem, and my computer's brand new. I have an Intel
P4 3.0Ghz, 160GB, 1G RAM, ATI Radeon X300 128MG. It'll start running slowly, then eventually crash. I turned down the graphics settings to medium (waste of a good video card), and nothing.