I'm getting random non-recovering freezes while playing, and reproducible similar behaviour when zooming completely out and letting the view scroll by pushing down left or right arrow button. When the game freezes, activity on one of the cores drops from 50%+ levels to <5%, while the other one is still fully occupied by the game. I'm also seeing lots of grey blotches of unloaded texture, and when slowly looking around, a previously loaded area gets unloaded, so could this be caused by a bug in the terrain/texture paging? What else could cause a crash when simply scrolling around? My guess is that the random freezes happen when the view moves to an unloaded area and paging bugs. I've had the freezes happen on strategic view too, but that seems to be a bit more stable. Memory usage is around 2.7GB (1.6 without CiV), page file usage around 3.7GB (1.8 without). The system meets the recommended requirements except for the GPU, but with DirectX9 version of the game and more than enough memory (both main and video), I don't think that could be a problem when using the lowest possible graphics settings.
Game specs:
Steam Deluxe Edition (Babylon is in game)
Huge map, 14 civs, 28 city states, turn 250 (has been randomly crashing for some time)
1280x1024 resolution (monitor native) fullscreen, also crashes in windowed mode
Lowest possible graphics settings!
Both DX9 and DX10/11 versions are crashing
Computer specs:
Vista 64 Home Premium, up to date
Intel Core 2 Duo 6850 3.0GHz
4GB memory, tested OK
Nvidia 8800GTS (640MB model), memory tested OK, latest beta drivers, tested also with latest official release drivers
DirectX updated with the setup that comes with the game
avast! antivirus, disabling had no effect on freezing
Game specs:
Steam Deluxe Edition (Babylon is in game)
Huge map, 14 civs, 28 city states, turn 250 (has been randomly crashing for some time)
1280x1024 resolution (monitor native) fullscreen, also crashes in windowed mode
Lowest possible graphics settings!
Both DX9 and DX10/11 versions are crashing
Computer specs:
Vista 64 Home Premium, up to date
Intel Core 2 Duo 6850 3.0GHz
4GB memory, tested OK
Nvidia 8800GTS (640MB model), memory tested OK, latest beta drivers, tested also with latest official release drivers
DirectX updated with the setup that comes with the game
avast! antivirus, disabling had no effect on freezing