Game crashes randomly

[ziamatt]

The game keeps randomly crashing. I can't tell when it's going to happen. It might be in a few turns after I load a game or it might take a while, but eventually the screen goes black save for my cursor (still the CIV IV style) and I have to call up task manager to end it.

 

[Metal Alloy Man]

Well it is RFC random.

What operating system are you running?

 

[ziamatt]

I'm using Windows XP.

I just tried to do a complete reinstall of CIV IV and BTS but I still get the crash.

 

[Metal Alloy Man]

Weird. The only thing I can think of is if your graphics card isn't powerful enough.

 

[ziamatt]

Well it plays normal RFC fine and used to play RAND fine. It was only recently I ever got this problem. And I'd say it's more likely to be a graphics problem if it wasn't so random. How can I check my graphics setting?

I'm going to try to redownload RAND and see if that helps any.

 

[Metal Alloy Man]

If it plays normal RFC fine then it's not going to be your graphics card. Reinstall and let's see what happens.

 

[ziamatt]

Well, I'm at a total loss now. I totally redownloaded and reinstalled RAND and about 70 turns into my game as India the game just went black and froze. I have no other ideas what to try.

 

[ziamatt]

Huh, it seems to be working now. I totally deleted RAND and copied the redownloaded one into the mods folder. It's been about 250 turns into a game as Russia and no problems yet.