Game Crashes after Intro

[FastFred]

I have scrolled through all the threads on this forum, and my "crash" situation seems to be unique.

This is what happens. The game loads and when i am looking at the "menu" the game just crashes. Even if I dont press anything.

The game will crash if i try to load a saved game, or start a new one no matter what setting, (tiny map to huge)

i can watch the introduction movie all the way through and no crash but as soon as i am at the menu, it is as though there is a countdown of 10 to 20 seconds and it just crashes.

I have a state of the art machine, and the game was working fine the past 2 weeks. But now no matter what I try what setting, whether i boot up in direct x 9 or 11. As soon as the game is fully loaded and I am about to chose whether i start a new game or load an old one, even if i am just looking at the options, it just crashes. With no error message no nothing.....

I have tried the following
- Turning of steam
- updating my Nvidia driver
- Tried editing the userfile so the Intro doesnt boot up
- Tried all variations of map sizes
- Have gone to the CIV 5 directory and used the DirectX setup and reinstall it

But as soon as I am at the menu and i am all good to start playing. No matter if i chose an option or just leave it at the menu and the music is just playing, 20 seconds or so from it loading up it CRASHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so annoying

Please help,
thanks in advance
Fred

 

[The_J]

mmhh...what about other processing heavy applications?
Does anything else, which needs some power, run on your system?

 

[FastFred]

no, there is no other programs running. I rebooted the computer and tried. But still crashes. I have a QUAD core with tons of ram. Wouldnt think its my specs that would crash it. Something to do with the game.

Its just weird that I am not even loading a big map game, or doing anything that uses up much RAM/processing power. I am at the main menu!!

 

[The_J]

I didn't mean that other programms could cause the crash.

I'm more suspecting that your computer coudl have a problem at all, so i ask if you can run any other process heavy applications (Games, Benchmarks, etc) on your computer without crashing.

 

[Overcastt]

i have had a similar error due to my experiences it is because of drivers or windows prequistes.

even though i had a sp3 xp, runtime&dx installed and lastest drivers i got that error. i installed 7 with 7 drivers and problem solved.

 

[Overcastt]

and damn dx11 graphics are cool

 

[FastFred]

Thanks for the reply THE J, seems the new patch I can play the game now, but I just cant load saved games heh

 

[Captmorgan72]

I thought I was in the clear too FastFred until my new game froze at turn 120. I tried to reload it but got the same runtime error I get when trying to load games prior to the patch.