Game feeezing after April update - so frustrating

[gump86]

I tried relaunching game from an earlier save. I made peace with one civ and was able to play for several more turns than I couldn't get past, but now it's freezing around turn 270. I thought it could be my laptop, so I saved the file off and loaded it onto my previous laptop, then updated game version on that box (which was running Civ fine a few months back). Once again, game freezes after a few turns. The globe stops turning..music keeps playing, but if you click on anything, game freezes. I left game running overnight to see if it ever catches up, but no dice.

I also toggled every visible feature to bare minimum, but no change.. may be a bug or something that's repeatedly causing crashing. Too bad this "update" appears to have killed the game.

 

[zeGhost]

pcmag has an article about windows update KB5001330 causing problems for games. Maybe that is the cause?

 

[Lenox]

pcmag has an article about windows update KB5001330 causing problems for games. Maybe that is the cause?

How were your results with uninstalling KB5001330?

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/04/15/k...-drop-in-games-failed-installs-and-bootloops/

 

[zeGhost]

I did try it and played one Persia game, finished that game with one crash. So it probably did nothing, but the crashes were much more likely in multiplayer and I have not tested that.

 

[Lenox]

I did try it and played one Persia game, finished that game with one crash. So it probably did nothing, but the crashes were much more likely in multiplayer and I have not tested that.

Interesting. I'm actually receiving crashes exclusively to single-player, because that's what I mostly play. I was throwing around the idea of uninstalling Windows Updates. As a temporary measure, I'm instead doing a manual save before hitting Next Turn. Sad...

Whether this is Microsoft or Civ's fault, it's putting me closer to pre-ordering Humankind.

 

[max152]

Hi!
I'm an occasional reader of this forum.
Discovered this game a couple of years ago and have 750+ hours of playing.

I am also experiencing identical crashes recently, I don't know really if it started with the april update..
But the last few days this has been really annoying as every 2 turns the game crashes (maybe as turn and complexity increases? been playing on huge map with 10 civs for the last recent weeks).

I have digged the internet for possible solutions (I recently started from a fresh install, and only have one mod installed or activated (CQUI), have also tried some LaunchPad tweek thing).
No luck

I try to search for a log somewhere containing some clue about the crash..
If someone can point to something I'll be glad to look into it.
Not a fan of contacting support of any services as the solution never came out of any of their really basic recommandations...

Thanks in advance.

 

[Lenox]

Hi!
I'm an occasional reader of this forum.
Discovered this game a couple of years ago and have 750+ hours of playing.

I am also experiencing identical crashes recently, I don't know really if it started with the april update..
But the last few days this has been really annoying as every 2 turns the game crashes (maybe as turn and complexity increases? been playing on huge map with 10 civs for the last recent weeks).

I have digged the internet for possible solutions (I recently started from a fresh install, and only have one mod installed or activated (CQUI), have also tried some LaunchPad tweek thing).
No luck

I try to search for a log somewhere containing some clue about the crash..
If someone can point to something I'll be glad to look into it.
Not a fan of contacting support of any services as the solution never came out of any of their really basic recommandations...

Thanks in advance.

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/04/15/k...e-drop-in-games-failed-installs-and-bootloops

Did you try this? My solution was to stop playing and play other games.