POLL: How much trouble are you having with CIV?

[Tom183]

And the current patch is now over 3 months old...

 

[Pantastic]

I don't have any major gameplay bugs. One issue is that movies don't play properly on either my laptop or desktop, but I figure that will be fixed in a future patch and I can just watch them at that point, then go back to skipping them. The game also has some memory leaks, if I've been playing for a long time (or just left the game running while doing something else) a quick exit to desktop and restart will speed it up immensely. The mouseover tips also seem to fail about 1/4 of the time, which is annoying if someome is making an offer of a tech and I don't remember how much it costs.

 

[3 EMS]

Howdy neighbor(scottin),
I've experienced most of the bugs posted by others. They happen infrequently and don't affect gameplay much.

 

[Armorydave]

Only trivial graphic bugs. Black ice after many hours of playing, units crossing the entire map (often walking on water) before entering combat. I feel for those having problems but it has been completely playable out of the box on my mid-range system.

 

[Commander Bello]

(x) So many bugs.....

the game is playable, though.

Nevertheless, there are enough things to be fixed and should be done prior to any release of an expansion pack (mouse-overs as just one example).

In the late game the frame rate drops occasionally to 9 fps on a P4 3.6 GHz, 2GB RAM, 2*6800GS (SLI-mode) system (fresh XP Home SP2, all updates, all drivers are brandnew).

Things like this are just incredible and I don't go to tolerate this.

 

[scottin]

Not bad. Shows that 78% are running the game with few problems. Maybe Firaxis hasn't done as miserable a job as I thought. Strange that so many people, running on decent machine (better than mine) are still having problems. Hopefully they have figured something out to help those folks.

 

[GIO888]

I can't play bigger than standard map - happily that's my preferred size anyways.

1 or 2 second end of turn delay year 4000BC becomes 25 to 30 second by 1800 AD, and if I'm involved in protracted modern wars, I save every turn as I get CTD one turn in 3 or 4 by 1900AD.

Civ4 still batters bottom all over beddy-byes land mind you.

 

[cthom]

hopefully, those of you with nvidia cards will have noticed the post by elhoim by now. the tweaks may just allow us to push the boat out a bit more.

 

[Reignking]

The game isn't buggy for me -- it just doesn't run as well as it should. I've quit playing; I get to about ~1000 AD and just quit, because it is too @#$@#$ slow.

 

[Mendel]

In almost every game I attempt, I get several 'crash to desktop' errors every single game. It's not unusual for a single epic game to require me to reload from the auto-save 8+ times.

I am extremely dismayed that the developers put out one patch rather quickly that addressed many problems, but other problems have been languishing for 3-4 months now. Historically, Civilization hasn't been 'stable' until the third patch. To me, Civ 4 fits this mold.

 

[Orion071]

I had enormous trouble with the game at first. I couldn't play a game without it crashing to desktop several times. After I upgraded my antique video card (which was below the system requirements) to a much better model, I haven't had any problems.