Patch 1.09 released!

[Lord Shadow]

Wow your smart.
Well ok just a smartAss.
I mean come on. If you meet the min requirments you should be able to see the game. Not some black screen bull.
But what can we expect from firaxis/take2? This patch says it all.
Like I said before it will take at least three patches and a year for them to fix. That fix will come out in an expansion pack.
They have your money, they have our money. Why should they work on it. I mean that would mean they actually care about there product. With this game and this patch we see that is not the case. What we see is they fix just enough to keep you hoping. So they can string it out till the expansion pack.

The lack of texture problem is typical of outdated graphic cards without T&L, which is a minimum requirement to run the game. There are too many people trying to get the game work with Intel and Radeon Mobility cards, and since most fail, they blame the devs for their crappy video cards.

Sorry, I'm a tad annoyed by the "oh, has the patch done anything about the 486 processor performance problem?" comments, so I unloaded my tension on the poor guy. For that, I apologize.

 

[Roach]

Patch doesnt work for me, getting BSODs and Hard Crashes still.

I have previously sent my Dxdiag off but I dont think the game is worth the hassle anymore to try again.

 

[Polopapolo]

To the people who are still experiencing various performance issues after the patch, I have a simple suggestion: Defrag your hard drive(s). While this is something that many of us do routinely, we often forget to recommend it to people having pc issues. It never ceases to amaze me how many people never do it nor realize the benefit of it. This may not end up being your savior, but it can't hurt to try it.

And anyone who hasn't defragged on a regular basis may not know how to start it, so...

(left click)
Start
->All Programs
-->Accessories
--->System Tools
---->Disk Defragmentor

I had alot of CTD'S on my first install. I then Defrag-ed and re-installed: it helped a lot. I haven't tried the new patch but seeing as how the game is running well without it, I won't!

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

 

[lyricswild]

Hey,
Downloaded the latest patch and now it is telling me my system is not able to run this. I have a new HP media center with 3.0 G Pent 4 1.0 G ram and 128 mg video card. It does not allow me to load high level graphics or to change the multi men to single man. Any one else with this problem?

 

[Lorteungen]

I also have new video problems since I installed the patch: The battle animations are really messed up. During battle, there is only one or 2 attack animation and the battle frezzes for 2-3 second until a winner is declared. All the "death" animation seem to have disapeared also....

Anyone else noticed this?

I had this problem sometimes with the old version so I don't think it's caused by the patch.

 

[caesarbear]

The wonder movies and endgame movies are now worse! The sound AND the video now studders! WTH? What is so hard about playing a video file? I don't have any other problems.

AMD3000+/ASUS MB/Geforce 6800/1gig ram
win 2k, latest nvidia drivers (specifically with cIV fixes)

 

[·Imhotep·]

I had alot of CTD'S on my first install. I then Defrag-ed and re-installed: it helped a lot. I haven't tried the new patch but seeing as how the game is running well without it, I won't!

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

This is what I've thought after reading through this thread. After all the game worked quite good for me on minimal settings. But the real deal comes now: Firaxis/Gamespy had the overwhelmingly great idea to make the 1.09 Patch an obligatorey to play MP games via Gamespy. As soon as you enter the lobby you are prompted to install the patch. Otherwise - no access. And now try setting up a direct IP game instead when sitting behind a router...

Great work, really !

Lord Timon

 

[elderotter]

just wanted to note that I just went into the gamespy lobby - there was a lot of people, and I crashed to desktop within 2 minutes - so apparently that was not fixed. Still cant play huge maps on single player, and still getting screwed graphics from time to time - in fact twice since the patch which is 2 times more than the original for the last month. Also the patch reset some of the settings I made and I had to find and reset them to get game back to where it was before the patch. I am very sorry to say this, because I try to stay positive, but I am not impressed with this patch. Best thing I saw was that horses are hidden at start.

 

[Mumin]

The game still doesn't give a d**n about custom mods unless I place the entire mod in the CustomAssets folder.

 

[spatulacity]

Well, after installing the 1.09 Patch on a clean unmodded install of CivIV Special Edition, I played the game for about an hour and it seemed to be running a little better ~5-10% better. But then as I tried to open up a city window it crashed.

Of course I reported the error and then these beauties showed up in Event Viewer.

My system consists of:
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ CPU
1 Gig Corsair Ram - dual channel enabled
Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB AGP
300GB Seagate PATA 7200RPM hard disk
Huge Dell 2405FPW monitor

I have been a fan of the Civilization series since I first discovered Civ I in 1993 and I have bought, and still have, each of the incarnations of the Civilization Game through the years. But barely playable and unfinishable Civ IV really pushes the limits of my allegiance to the series and has me question the integrity of companies involved.

-Dave

 

[silverjim]

After getting the CRC error through a direct download of the patch and then applying, I tried getting it through the game. That works. I did notice that I can't play the game at the full resolution of my ATI card (1440x900) very long before things seem to freeze up, but I think the GPU overheats and shuts down above 140 degrees F. Well, I'll just play at 1040x768 then. I haven't noticed any other problems.

Silverjim

 

[Azazell]

spatulacity --> I have the same problems with Civ 4 has encountered a problem and needs close... bla bla bla... only during game .I running program "english translator collins 2.5" is stupid bug ;/

 

[Pounder]

I've noticed something else wierd. I loaded my SP Ghandi game. The turn was from 1973. When I loaded the game and hit end turn I was in 1964.

The turn played just fine though...

My saved game was off by 10 turns as well.

My game is going to finish in 2040 if there is no other victory first.

I game is play fine other than that, hopefully it is just because it is a saved game from a previous release (1.00).

 

[Pounder]

I was running fine before the patch: P3 800Mhz, WIN98SE, 512MB, Geforce 5500.

I am running about the same after the patch, maybe a little faster opening and closing diplomacy and such.

One that was fixed for me after I loading the patch was the options screens, prior to the patch only the first tab contain selections, now with 1.09 all the options show up in the other three tabs, thought it was something to do with WIN98, happy to see the other options.

I didn't seem to miss them during the 9 or 10 games I've played as the defaults all worked fine on my computer.

I have apparantly been running all the highest setting with no crashes or major issues. I shut the movies off as the sound is a little choppy and I am tired of them anyways.

 

[Slateman]

My wonder movies are also broken after the patch. Sound works fine now, but the movie is static!! Movies worked prior to patching.

 

[The Condor]

I got this:

I ignored it and after playing 0.001 games (didn't crash just quit [double headed horses are funny]).

What do I do? Is it bad? How do I fix it? Any other things I can do to make the patch run better? I have the pre-order special edition. The patch so far (knock on wood) has been working fine but as I stated earlier I just did worldbuilder and then quit.

 

[Overlag]

When i tried to patch it, it said Civilization4 CRC does not match... and wont install......currupt download? or currupt install?

 

[Pounder]

@the Condor

Just click ignore and it will load and run fine.

 

[scaramonga]

Think I'll skip this 'patch'! ....now the 'Guinea Pigs' have tested......LOL

Game running fine without anyway........I'll hang off till they bring a patch out to fix the patch

 

[I3lack]

Small questions guys:
Since i installed the patch i don't see the number of turns it takes the city to grow in size or finish a production... any input on this? it was pretty useful!

Thank you