[FIXED] Crashing on Huge Map Size - What's the Limiting Factor?

[Sykstring]

I had the same problems with crashing with huge map and all details set to high. To fix it I dropped Fog of War and Water texture to medium and I can now play. I do sometimes get some crashes when trying to load saves or start the game, but those usually will fix if I reboot the computer.

In all, I'm enjoying the game.

 

[Krustoph]

@Krustoph: Could you reload one of your old saves before you crash out then see if it could be a GP spawn from any city or a GG spawn crashing your game?

I have since tried to reload 2 of my games, and both crash out on load. Video drivers updated. I have a suspicion its my XP Pro installation, but the amount of time required to reinstall XP (plus the frustration of trying to find the disk since i now actually need it lol) just doesnt seem worth it atm. I havent had any issue with GP's since ive had a number of them during the course of my games, and they work fine. I honestly cant find any real trend with the crashes, it seems quite random.

Im probably going to upgrade to Windows 7 soon so untill then, im probably going to be Civ 5 less

Will post any update if i get something working.

Cheers!

 

[screaminbeagles]

I'm a little new to this, (see # of posts), so forgive me if I'm repeating/not including enough info. I'm running Vista, Quad core 8GB, ATI Radeon 5770 1GB. I can't play huge or large maps either. All settings currently set to low. Updated drivers. I have been able to progress to the last era in the game, but only in my most recent game. All others crash much earlier. I can reload older saves, but they all crash at same point. RAM usage doesn't seem to go above 3 at time of crash. I've given up playing the large maps, currently playing on small, no problems. I love the game, just wish I could finish a marathon game on huge map. Just thought I'd let you know I'm having same problems with a system that is above all recommended settings. Cheers.

 

[NarrativeKnight]

I am running a dual core non-hyperthreaded 2.4G AMD chip on Windows 7 32 bit with only 2G of dual channel DDR2 800 corsair memory. I do however have an ATI Radeon 2600 512M of DDR 3. I always start huge maps with 7 civilizations and 28 city states. I just made it to 700 AD at 1920 x 1080 resolution before it white screened on me and crashed. I still see the game but it has a white cast to it as if it had a gamma problem and it stopped responding. I am at a 75H refresh rate. My processor is doing fine at around 16% but my ram is locked at 79%. I have been to much later dates on the same game settings with lower graphic options. It doesn't sound like a graphics card problem or memory problem to me. It sounds like a game bug somewhere that a specific item like resolution or fog of war causes the crashes even though the game can be ran in all other aspects.

 

[maurym]

That's exactly what wa shappening to me, but once I put the leader setting on low, no more crashes when meeting Civs. You may want to try that if you haven't already.

Also, there appears to be a bug when you hit 70 cities, not really a large map issue, but one you're not likely to encounter except on larger maps.

Setting the Leader graphic setting to low works. Thanks