Large Games Crashing Late

[Balthemal]

My Civ4 is experiencing late(r) in game crashes on a fairly regular basis. I can play for anywhere from 5-10 turns before I start to freeze up and eventually crash (often rebooting my system).

Playing on the Terra maps, in epic mode causes the most problems, but generally, on any large world these problems start up near the industrial age (when the map is getting especially busy). I have the 1.09 patch installed.

System specs:

Gateway
2.80 Mhz P-4 processor
1 Gig RAM
NVidia GeForce 6600 (128 MB) graphics card.
Graphics driver updated to v 6.14.0010.8195 (11/11/2005)

 

[Zydor]

This sounds like the memory problem- the game has a major memory issue - they will fix it - but meanwhile there is a very successfull User Patch that addresses this

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=146309

At present he is working on version 2 of the patch, but has posted an Intermediate V2 for testing by kind folks. So you can either go for the version 1 patch shown on the opening page, or the version 2 on test at post #640. Its a benign patch, does not touch game code, and is easily installed / deinstalled. Scan read the last 2/3 pages of the thread and you will get the idea.

Obviously could be other things, and if it does not work for you come back here and we can try something else - but it sounds a classic for this fix

Regards
Zy

 

[Balthemal]

Zy,

Thanks very much for the assistance. I'll grab the user-created patch and get it installed tonight. Perhaps my Taoist Chinese can take over the world after all, and without having to restart my computer every 5 turns.