I am having the same issues as al you. AMd 3000 64 bit proccessor, BFG 6800 GT (OC) factory OC. audigy 2zs over 1gig ram. I had a similar issue with pacific fighter forgotten battles bundle and gave up on that game as well. I have tried everything, including updating my system bios. If one of you guys figure this out please kep me posted, the game seems real cool, and I would love to play but get very pissed everytime it crashes.
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I have had the same isues with my BFG 6800 gt (OC) in this game as well as pacific fighters. I originally thought it was a over heating issue so I but this fancy heat sink for the card that directly blows the heat from GPU out the back PCI slot, my entire system ran about 12 C cooler but I still have the crashes
Raider62 said:
So Nvidia says.
It would if the voltage on the card was too low.
So one more time in case anyone out there is listening
If you are having problems with a 6800GT or Ultra where it locks up on you and/or you get graphic anomolies. then dumb down the card.
Turn off fastwrites,write combining, vsync, reduce the agp to 4x, set the appeture size to the amount of ram you have on the card, and underclock the gpu and video ram (if you can) by 10 to 20 %.
Now, say that does solves the crash, then your card is not doing what it is supposed to do. Could be your cooling system in general for your rig or both.
Neon Deon said:
Already applied all those "fixes" and still get crashes randomly. Even went so far as to do clean install of xp and reupdate everything. Still crashes.
I declocked my card by 20% and it still crashed. I find it strange that its all these 6800's by BFG with the exact same crash. That seems to mean its the card or Civ, not the rigs, since we all have different specs besides the BFG 6800's. Overheating, I doubt since I can play for 2 hours sometimes and then sometimes only for 10 minutes. If it overheats, it would overheat at approximately the same length of times not 2 hour differences.
Finnally if it was overheating I wouldnt be able to restart my computer after a crash turn civ back on and play for 2 hours. It would overheat again very fast since the card only had 1 minute or so to cool. But yet it does not. It seems to be completely random crashes. I have checked my temps in game and they are in low 70's. I just dont see that its all our cards overheating when I get much higher in game temps in other games with zero video errors.
I have the same problem as above posters with my game. I can play 1 hours or so but then it freezes and I have to reboot.
ATi Radeon x600 256mb
1GHZ Intel
1024mb RAM
Powersupply enough to cover everything.
BF2 for example pushes my hardware alot but I don't get any crashes.
ATi Radeon x600 256mb
1GHZ Intel
1024mb RAM
Powersupply enough to cover everything.
BF2 for example pushes my hardware alot but I don't get any crashes.
Nomble said:.
BF2 for example pushes my hardware alot but I don't get any crashes.
Same here and you know those First Person Shooters are a lot more hardware intensive than CIV 4. Which convinces me even further there is nothing short of a patch that is gonna fix this.
Here's the latest on my tests - First time, went 30 minutes before going to bed (as noted in previous post). Second time was a loaded saved game that went 45 minutes and then crashed. Upgraded graphics drivers to most recent at this point. Test 3, was I loaded the game to the main menu, and left. Came back three hours later to find the menu still going strong (no crash). Today, test three, got online with my buddy (he was hosting) went three hours and then crash. Loaded the game in and played for another 45 minutes and then crashed again for test 4. This time though, the computer gave me a CMOS error. After reconfiguring CMOS, went for test 5 - loaded game of the night before. Went 30 minutes - crashed, and the same blasted CMOS error. Updated mobo drivers and flashed the BIOS with an updated version. Loaded the game again, went 45 minutes and crashed. SO basically, my theory is that though not a permanent fix, installing the patch separately outside of the game helps. It's either that, or installing the original driver for the video card and then upgrading, but I suspect the patch thing. Previously, I was always crashing around 10 minutes. Now it's gone to random everything from a minimum of 30 minutes to 3 hours of in game playing. I have noticed that the game crashes sooner on loading saved games. I get the feeling then, that we're looking at more than one bug in the game, which may explain the complete randomness of the crashes. At the very least, it's a bit more tolerable than what it was. Anybody else have any thoughts? Oh and in case you want to know I'm running the following -
AMD Ahtlon 64 3400+
1Gb RAM
Audigy 2 ZS
6800 GT OC (manufactured by BFG)
160 Gb SATA HDD (Maxtor)
Gigabyte Mobo
AMD Ahtlon 64 3400+
1Gb RAM
Audigy 2 ZS
6800 GT OC (manufactured by BFG)
160 Gb SATA HDD (Maxtor)
Gigabyte Mobo
Well, the game just crashed on me twice in the timespan of about 5 minutes from a saved game file. Wasn't running anything before the game started, so in theory the card shouldn't have gotten hot. They had better patch this soon, I'm getting VERY irritated... 
richieelias
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Well mine is still running fine by underclocking my card... /shrug.. card at normal settings: lockup in 15 minutes, underclocked: no crashes.
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I played it a couple times yesterday for a few hours a stretch with no problems. I even left the game playing while I went to a movie and no crash. Also like to note that I have to have mine underclocked (core down to 300 from 370, memory down to 900 from 1000) AND have a house fan blowing into my computer for it to work. If I leave out either one it crashes in about half an hour or so. I never played Civ4 before the 1.52 patch, so I dont know anything about how stable mine would be without it. Also I'm using the old 6.14.0010.8185 drivers from nvidia if that means anything.
I have no idea why doing things that cool down my case works to increase this games stability, but my comp has no problems running games like HL2 and Doom3 with all the graphics settings at extreme. Or why World of Warcraft had the exact same crash effect (screen and sound go all funky and comp locks up, which I solved easily by just taking the door off my comp and blowing a fan in there.) but EQ2 did not even though it has much higher system requirements. no clue...
I have no idea why doing things that cool down my case works to increase this games stability, but my comp has no problems running games like HL2 and Doom3 with all the graphics settings at extreme. Or why World of Warcraft had the exact same crash effect (screen and sound go all funky and comp locks up, which I solved easily by just taking the door off my comp and blowing a fan in there.) but EQ2 did not even though it has much higher system requirements. no clue...
Used to have the problem too, screen would always crash to different variations of the attached.
Underclocking by 20% sorted it right out, have been playing fine for weeks now with the graphics settings on high.
1. Download Rivatuner
2. Underclock by 20%. (in the main tab, under driver settings click on the thing next to where it says "customize" then select system settings. For performance 3D and standard 2D underclock core clock and memory clock, for each of these you'll have to click "test" and "apply".)
3. Under the fan tab put all 3 bars up to about 80%, don't know if this helps I just do if for the hell of it.
4. Re-do at each start up, unless you want to apply at start up....
Specs are
3200 AMD 64
Gefore 6800 GT
1GB ram
Underclocking by 20% sorted it right out, have been playing fine for weeks now with the graphics settings on high.
1. Download Rivatuner
2. Underclock by 20%. (in the main tab, under driver settings click on the thing next to where it says "customize" then select system settings. For performance 3D and standard 2D underclock core clock and memory clock, for each of these you'll have to click "test" and "apply".)
3. Under the fan tab put all 3 bars up to about 80%, don't know if this helps I just do if for the hell of it.
4. Re-do at each start up, unless you want to apply at start up....
Specs are
3200 AMD 64
Gefore 6800 GT
1GB ram
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It's what I see too, though sometimes its just a black screen but the sound always goes funky as well. Also the exact same thing with the other games I mentioned: World of Warcraft, Age of Empires 3 demo, and Black and white 2.
I dont have the Riva tuner. Instead I used some registry thing that lets you get extra options in the Nvidia console. Underclock plus I checked the "Fan is always on" option.
I dont have the Riva tuner. Instead I used some registry thing that lets you get extra options in the Nvidia console. Underclock plus I checked the "Fan is always on" option.
richieelias said:
Yeah, sometimes a black screen too, or if you leave the checkerboard thing the monitor eventually turns off. Sometimes the mouse would still move a square of the screen around and other times if itunes was playing I'd still be able to hear that but not be able to do anything else.
I'd monitor the temps and it wouldn't seem too high but then after opening the case the card would be too hot to touch.
Plays fine now though with all the graphics settings in the game and on the Nvidia graphics tool on max.
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Hmmm cant be the card i play all my other games on high graphics and my card runs fine.So how come by undercloacking the card makes it work this is wierd.
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That screen is exactly what I get, sometimes for about half a second and other times I can see my mouse (now a block) moving inside of it, but without sound or any inputs working.
What gets me is how totally random it is. I can play for hours without a problem, but the next time I lode it I can't even finish a turn. Unless the thermometer is wrong I am quite sure that there is no overheating.
Also, given all of the money that I spent on this card and game (which is otherwise quite amazing), I don't want to have to tone anything down to get it to work. That, after all, is the point of buying a $250+ card, you want to run the game on as high settings as you can. To add insult to injury, games like FarCry and Half Life 2 run without a hitch on the best settings, so I cannot consider this problem solved until I can run the game without having to cripple my card.
What gets me is how totally random it is. I can play for hours without a problem, but the next time I lode it I can't even finish a turn. Unless the thermometer is wrong I am quite sure that there is no overheating.
Also, given all of the money that I spent on this card and game (which is otherwise quite amazing), I don't want to have to tone anything down to get it to work. That, after all, is the point of buying a $250+ card, you want to run the game on as high settings as you can. To add insult to injury, games like FarCry and Half Life 2 run without a hitch on the best settings, so I cannot consider this problem solved until I can run the game without having to cripple my card.
