Multiplayer Crashes

[rikath22]

Could people using emulation, pirated versions, etc etc cause major crashes only when I'm trying to play multiplayer? I run the game trouble free during single player but have had my PC randomly reboot 3 times when connecting to online games now in the past few days only; before that enjoyed about 4-5 games without problems (online).


I'm not having any trouble in single player though. Anyone else noticing this now the past few days?

 

[Hypus]

This is a real possibility--but I think it would mostly be SYNC errors of some kind. I don't think different versions would cause hard crashes but you never know.
I did think it strange that no-cdkey is required and I just hope that this approach to the game will be self-rewarding. Sometimes the "pirate/geek community" will actually praise certain developers for their products and the lack of protection hassles (this does make backing up a snap--especially for us that own the collector's edition and don't want to scratch the discs up).

Most "pirates" will eventually buy this game anyway...it is that good imho.

 

[jenlion]

I had this problem on a LAN game. Bought two perfectly legal copies to play on good computers on home 100MB LAN.

I tried to start the game. Husband can join game. I try to join, screen black, it crashes, computer reboots.

Update video drivers, try to join again, same problem. Can't draw map, computer freaks and reboots. I can do singleplayer fine though.

I'm having tons of other problems too, most seem graphics related but I'm not really sure. CPU temp isn't going up, so it's not that, but when I try to move around on the screen, after "a while" it gets horribly slow. Workers digging a road take v-e-r-y s-l-o-w d-i-g-s. But if I hit the window key, pop back to windows for a second, and then return to civ -- it's fine. (I have a geforce 5600). I have 1.5G RAM, so that SHOULD be plenty, though I'll have to keep an eye on the page file I guess after reading some other posts.

Pretty frustrating to wait for a game this long and find out we're all beta testers. :-(