How I sloved my problems

[Willem de III]

I experienced games that crashed after some time and sound problems (stuttering) but all these are history:

What I've done:

-More Ram; I bought 1GB of Ram extra, so I'm currently on 1,256MB Ram (good price for 1GB of Ram is about 100 to 140 euro's, depending on what kind of Ram DDRam, SdRam and so on)
-Updated my video card drivers; very important is to unistall the old ones first otherwise you won't have any effect. You can ininstall them in your configuration screen and then under the icon software
-Search for the file dxdiag.exe and run it, turn off the hardware acceleration for your sound (with a slider).

When I bought more Ram I didn't experience long loading times, the game runs smooth even with a huge world and the maximum number of civs on it!! Crashing didn't happen anymore after updating my video drivers (after firstly unistalling the old ones!!).

 

[Zombieboy]

What video card and system are you running it on, apart from your RAM?

 

[jabberwocky]

uhhh...so the lesson here is...if i spend another $129.95 CAN for 1Gig of kingston RAM, I MIGHT get my CIV 4 ($49.95 CAN) working...

I think the Divine Comedy is alive an well.

 

[Zevus]

I experienced games that crashed after some time and sound problems (stuttering) but all these are history:

What I've done:

-More Ram; I bought 1GB of Ram extra, so I'm currently on 1,256MB Ram (good price for 1GB of Ram is about 100 to 140 euro's, depending on what kind of Ram DDRam, SdRam and so on)
-Updated my video card drivers; very important is to unistall the old ones first otherwise you won't have any effect. You can ininstall them in your configuration screen and then under the icon software
-Search for the file dxdiag.exe and run it, turn off the hardware acceleration for your sound (with a slider).

When I bought more Ram I didn't experience long loading times, the game runs smooth even with a huge world and the maximum number of civs on it!! Crashing didn't happen anymore after updating my video drivers (after firstly unistalling the old ones!!).

I've got 1GB RAM already, 3.2ghz P4, and a nvidia geforce 6800 sound card... uhm, game should run properly on that, but it doesn't. I upgraded to the latest drivers 81.85 and in addition to the sound skipping in wonder movies and game slowdown after playing for a while, it had a bunch of texture errors (globe view didnt work properly, minimap was messed up), so I went back to older drivers and the globe problems etc went away, but I'm still having the stuttering problems.

There's obviously somethin' wrong with the game itself, because after the game slows down, I can exit the game and re-enter and it'll run fine for another few hours. There's a memory leak in there somewhere, altho I dunno if that's related to the sound stuttering in wonder movies or not... I will say that the early wonders I build (stonehenge etc), have no stuttering problems.. it is only later in the game that it starts happening.

 

[MeNeedsHelp]

Try editing the map in-game and deleting all the trees on the world map.

Then resume the game. I think the game keeps tracks of every cell containing trees, because the trees are dynamic, and tend to grow or die as the environment changes, killing your ram and video card simultaneously. Just get rid of the damn trees....your framerate should double and it shouldn't stutter anymore, until the trees start growing back.....

 

[Ape Drape]

"Buy more ram." is the #1 thing said by game companies. on a machine that has only 256mb of ram, it is a viable solution and easily solves ALOT of problems with your computer and not just whatever game you are trying to run. WinXP hogs alot of ram. Adding more is good when you don't have alot.

However, when you have 1 gig or more of ram, buyng more only depletes your bank account and isn't going to solve any problems you are experiencing with whatever program you are running.

 

[midn8t]

i have 2 gigs of ram and i still having problems

nothing to do with ram.

for crapes and gigles i stuck 4 gigs of ram into my computer and that didnt cure it ethere.

 

[TheBarnacle]

uhhh...so the lesson here is...if i spend another $129.95 CAN for 1Gig of kingston RAM, I MIGHT get my CIV 4 ($49.95 CAN) working...

I think the Divine Comedy is alive an well.

no kidding. i already dropped $50 for the game i understood (per the reqs on the box!!!!) would run on my machine. it didn't.
- total = $50
so i dropped $70 more for an nvid card that would at least correct the black terrain (aka T&L) issues. it did...still choppy/slow play.
- total = $120

now it appears it may simply be that i need to double my ram (i have 512!!!!). that could run me what, $100?
- total = $220

so, for over $200 i could have a computer game....wow....that better include a virtual halle berry to sit in my lap while i play.

 

[al_thor]

Keep adding RAM. Stop when your computer becomes Self Aware. Install CivIV. It will play itself.

 

[Uty]

I think your "improve the hardware" strategy is superior to the typical "write a rant threatening the lives of Firaxis employees" strategy. To date only the first one has gotten the game to work.

 

[midn8t]

how i fixed civ 4 i put it on shelf and waited year for patch to come out and installed it.