game freeze at loading - with "sound loop"

[lead341]

Hi,

despite playing Civ 5 (the Steam Version) on a modern computer (8 GB Ram etc.) it happened today twice that when I tried to load a game, it froze and the sound started stuttering, like in a loop.
Is that a game issue or might this be a problem with my Ram? I was testing with memtest but everything ok so far.

greetings,

lead

 

[Sjru]

No. I'm fairly sure it's not your RAM. Why it should be your RAM?
I think what you got is a CiV that crashes, the system hangs the process and the sounds keep looping.

Anyway: It's a system freeze or just the game? Can just close it with the task manager?
Maybe your save is corrupted?
Cheers.

 

[lead341]

thanks for your quick reply!
To me it seemed just a game freeze because I could switch back to desktop - only the sound issue remained (I had to restart in order to get rid of that stuttering sound loop)

 

[Sjru]

Restart to get rid of the sound loop?
That's because the game remained in memory. Probably if you take a look at the task manager you will see that CiV it's still there, even after you closed it.
That sometimes happens to me (I always wonder why I hear ambient sound and it turns out that CiV somehow was in memory).

About the crash: Try an earlier save, if it loads without problem perhaps your save got corrupted. Else we'll see.