Pestilence
Chieftain
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- Oct 2, 2007
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If anyone is having the same problems or issues and have any ideas or suggestions I would really appreciate he help. I contacted technical support and they could offer no help or assistance. I have this problem only since the (first) BTS Patch and I have reinstalled civ completely with no changes to the problem I am having.
Situation:
Connecting to multiplayer, game locks 50% of time.
Exiting completed multiplayer game, game locks 80% of time.
Just waiting in staging or on a vote screen, game locks approximately 20% of time.
Exiting game from a vote screen, game locks 100% of time.
If I am lucky enough to 'beat the odds' and actually connect to a multiplayer game, I can play from turn 1 to the end of the game without incident or lockup-- (0% game lock) (barring a vote screen -player drop- to the very end). Also If I am the first player to exit the completed game, from the menu, my lock up occurence is reduced greatly.
All of these lockups (using task manager) show 2 civ processes running.
1) `e5.0001 and civ4beyondthesword.exe
I can kill the e5.0001 process
I can kill the civ4beyondthesword application (It shows on task manager as 'not responding')
When I attempt to kill the civ4beyondthesword.exe process, I can't-- it NEVER stops or goes away. Consequently, the only way I can reload civ is to reboot my entire system.
2) If I attempt to reload the civ program at this time, it simply goes right back to desktop. The only way for me to reload the civ program has been to reboot my computer.
3) I can play or run any other game I try except civ at this point, without rebooting my computer... including a large game like oblivion, without any problems or issues.
Some general information:
Running a dual core pentium with windows vista (the only OS I have)
Nvidia 8800GTX graphics card with latest drivers installed
Sound Blaster X-Fi sound with latest drivers installed.
Thanks for any and all help as this lock-up issue is driving me nuts!
Situation:
Connecting to multiplayer, game locks 50% of time.
Exiting completed multiplayer game, game locks 80% of time.
Just waiting in staging or on a vote screen, game locks approximately 20% of time.
Exiting game from a vote screen, game locks 100% of time.
If I am lucky enough to 'beat the odds' and actually connect to a multiplayer game, I can play from turn 1 to the end of the game without incident or lockup-- (0% game lock) (barring a vote screen -player drop- to the very end). Also If I am the first player to exit the completed game, from the menu, my lock up occurence is reduced greatly.
All of these lockups (using task manager) show 2 civ processes running.
1) `e5.0001 and civ4beyondthesword.exe
I can kill the e5.0001 process
I can kill the civ4beyondthesword application (It shows on task manager as 'not responding')
When I attempt to kill the civ4beyondthesword.exe process, I can't-- it NEVER stops or goes away. Consequently, the only way I can reload civ is to reboot my entire system.
2) If I attempt to reload the civ program at this time, it simply goes right back to desktop. The only way for me to reload the civ program has been to reboot my computer.
3) I can play or run any other game I try except civ at this point, without rebooting my computer... including a large game like oblivion, without any problems or issues.
Some general information:
Running a dual core pentium with windows vista (the only OS I have)
Nvidia 8800GTX graphics card with latest drivers installed
Sound Blaster X-Fi sound with latest drivers installed.
Thanks for any and all help as this lock-up issue is driving me nuts!
