Reboot after Load game->Click on a unit

[Mr_V]

Bizarre.

I'm on of few lucky people for whom Civ IV is running fine on laptop.

AMD 3400
1024 RAM
ATI Radeon 9700 Mobility 128 MB

The game runs quite well. It's only today that I tried loading a game I saved yesterday. Loads fine, and it is on End Turn. I click on any city to make the unit active, and the PC reboots. When it boots up again, I get Microsoft message saying how Windows recovered from a serious error, with output:

BCCode : 1000007f BCP1 : 00000008 BCP2 : 80042000 BCP3 : 00000000
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1

C:\DOCUME~1\Admin\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERb314.dir00\Mini110605-03.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Admin\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERb314.dir00\sysdata.xml

I tried not clicking on the unit, but just ending the turn, game goes through all other civilizations, asks what is next to be built and what tech to be researched, but as soon as it reaches for a unit to be active, same thing.

However, I loaded the latest autosave - worked fine?!

I thought it was a one-off, I played for few hours, saved it, tried loading it again few minutes ago, bang. Same thing.

Has anyone encountered this before?

 

[Jason The King]

No, but I would contact Firaxis if I were you.

 

[Mr_V]

I just sent the gamefile to a mate, let's see if he can load it up and play it.

In the meantime, I loaded a autosaved game, which worked previously today. Now - reboots even on that.

Is there a specific link where I can contact Firaxis specifically for Civ IV? On http://www.firaxis.com/company/contact.php there is a link for products of Pirates, Golf, and Civ III, and usefully, not a mention of Civ IV.

 

[MattJek]

I have the same problem, but it reboots my computer while the game is starting.... I just installed more ram. It was working fine before I installed the extra ram but it ran really slow and laggy.

 

[Mr_V]

edit: message out of date