game crashes for any late era

[EdSurly]

I'm running a Core2 Quad, 4 gigs of ram and two 8800GT's in SLI and I'm having the exact same problems you guys are. If it's a memory issue I gotta believe it's a memory leak on Firaxis's end or the mod I'm using is utilizing way more resources than I think. I can't imagine this machine having trouble running this game even with huge or larger maps. Everytime my turn ends another civ tries to contact me and the game crashes...everytime that particular turn ends and the communication video tries to load I get the "this game has cause...yadda yadda yadda" error and it crashes. I AM running a larger than huge map..140 x 84 with the Wolfshanze mod. Maybe my problem is with the mod? In vanilla I have no trouble loading much larger maps but with this mod that particular size is the largest that I can load..all others crash. Just how much ram would one need to run a mod like that on truly gargantuan sized maps?

Edit>> I'm running XP pro with SP3

 

[ori]

is this a 32 bit windows?
and what is the yadda, yadda part?

Welcome to CFC

 

[EdSurly]

I'm usind XP Pro 32bit and I think according to this thread; http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=225205 that may be the problem. I've tried the boot.ini "fix" explained there but my machine won't boot with the /3g change nor will it boot with the /Userva=2900, /Userva=3008, /Userva=2800, /Userva=2500. So I think that I just need to get WinXP 64 bit version or bite the bullet and grab Vista 64 to finally utilize the really big maps I like so much. The "Yadda yadda yadda" I alluded to earlier is this; "Civ IV has encounterd a problem and needs to close" Then the box that ask's if you want to report this problem to Microsoft.

I did change my virtual memory to 4096 and I tried the game again just a bit ago and the game did make it past the AI leader contact "pop up" (it was Napolean hehe) and I continued to play the game for several more turns (I thought it was going to be ok) untill I tried to look at my military advisor window, then the game crashed with the same "Civ IV has encountered a problem and needs to close" error.

 

[ori]

please click on show report and post a screenshot of what this error report shows (don't scroll down in it).
The memory problem usually comes with its own failed to allocate memory message - if that is not the one it is possible that you have in addition to this something else going on
As for the userva value: is your graphics driver updated? some cards don't like the 3GB flag but in some cases newer drivers cope better with it than others...

 

[EdSurly]

I reloaded the game and clicked the military advisor and no crash, played a few more turns then clicked the technologie window and it crashed...here's a screenshot;

ps I did grab the latest drivers for my video card last night

 

[EdSurly]

Can you read the screenshot ok? If not I can include a link to my photobucket site...you'll get to see pics of my kitchen redo also! LOL!! And you can see my Voodoo Rage pc case...it was the last one made by Voodoo and the last one to leave the factory, signed by the crew at voodoo pc!

<edit> I guess that's as good an image as I can get you. Photobucket won't let me upload anything bigger

 

[ori]

this is not a problem with memory allocation failure - it is a memory access violation, for a quick primer see below - I will likely not be able to respond anymore today - if you have any more questions just post them I'll answer tomorrow
http://www.updatexp.com/0xC0000005.html

 

[Goldhide]

Yes... I too am having this same problem.

With me it's very simple.. I have been playing a Marathon 18 Civ Terra game, the biggest I can make, with all the graphics settings on maximum and my computer has handled it fine. However since reaching the modern era the game has started randomly crashing. I guess you could call it a crash, but it's nothing hard, it just shuts down and Vista tells me, Civ has stopped working, with no explanation. Just to clarify the game is running absolutely fine, there is no slowdown or loss of frame rate whatsoever. It's not like my machine can't handle the game graphically, so it must be something else right?

I'm playing on a Mac Pro:

Twin 2.66Ghz Intel Xeon Dual Core Processors (4 Cores)
4GB RAM
ATI Radeon X1900 512MB
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit

This is amazingly annoying... I'm in the middle of trying to find a solution with the help of 2K Tech support, but things are moving along slowly so far. It just seems to me like certain aspects of this game have been badly programmed. Whatever the case a solution needs to be found, I mean how can Sid expect us to keep playing Civ if we can never finish a game!

 

[ori]

Welcome to cfc

does the windows event manager contain any error log for this crash?