Memory Leak?

[Mooseman]

This has been going on for a while. I have been getting MAF during HD saves. It only happens when a file tries writing to the HD. It turns out as a very small 2k file. MAF and then booted out. Could this also be another vid related MAF?

 

[Lemay]

double post

 

[Lemay]

To fix this low performance bug I have changed the following settings:

Enter your C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\ folder and open "_Civ4Config" (.ini file)

Changing the following settings to the ones below solved my problem, hope it works for others also.

AllowScreenShots = 0
SyncInput = 1
D3D9Query = 1
LoggingEnabled = 1

Is it normal I cant find AllowScreenShots = 0 in the .ini? I got beyond the sword, and was able to find and modify the 3 others, ill try it like that for now but if it ring anyone a bell..

Thanks

 

[ori]

Is it normal I cant find AllowScreenShots = 0 in the .ini? I got beyond the sword, and was able to find and modify the 3 others, ill try it like that for now but if it ring anyone a bell..

Thanks

this setting has somehow been removed with some patch or another - so it is normal that you cannot find it. You can however still try simply putting it into the ini if the other things don't work - it might work even though it is not in there explicitly any more.

Welcome to Civfanatics

 

[Lemay]

Hi, thanks for the welcome

Im kinda sad, it didnt work


I only got 1250mb of ram but I am running windows lsd very low needed in ressource when I play the game it run super smooth until it just close.. im looking to change my 3d card (im on a 7600gs) or simply back to a old civ, its sad because Im french native and the french version of civ4 was wonderful with voice etc...

Plus civ is the kind of game you dont want to bug in middle of your game when its been ages you are polishing your game.. oh well if devloppers can see this: PLEASE SAVE US D;

 

[ori]

Hi, thanks for the welcome

Im kinda sad, it didnt work


I only got 1250mb of ram but I am running windows lsd very low needed in ressource when I play the game it run super smooth until it just close.. im looking to change my 3d card (im on a 7600gs) or simply back to a old civ, its sad because Im french native and the french version of civ4 was wonderful with voice etc...

Plus civ is the kind of game you dont want to bug in middle of your game when its been ages you are polishing your game.. oh well if devloppers can see this: PLEASE SAVE US D;

did it give you any error message before crashing?

 

[Lemay]

Nope it simply quit to dekstop without any messages like I was pressing alt f4

 

[ori]

is this something you can repeat (e.g. have a save that crashes) so that one could test a few things?

 

[Lemay]

Well evrytime I start a game, it take about maybe like 20 30 turns, I tried on different settings like non fractal maps other difficulties, its always after like 5-10 min of play

From what ive seen I always do different things when it crash, but ill try to work on that and try if I can identify something

 

[ori]

do the following (I assume you are playing Civilization 4 and not Warlords or Beyond the Sword):
The French windows path is probably called different from the english one:
documents and settings\<username>\my documents\my games\sid meier's civilization 4\civilizationIV.ini

and change the following entries so that they look like I post them:

; Set to 1 for no python exception popups
HidePythonExceptions = 0

(...)

; Enable the logging system
LoggingEnabled = 1

; Enable synchronization logging
SynchLog = 1

; Overwrite old network and message logs
OverwriteLogs = 1

; Enable rand event logging
RandLog = 1

; Enable message logging
MessageLog = 1

Then play the game, once it crashes please put the contents of
documents and settings\<username>\my documents\my games\sid meier's civilization 4\logs
into a zip file and upload that here.