Simple fix for random CTD and poor performance

[spiffamoo]

Been playing a lot of civ 5 over the weekend, and have been plagued by random CTDs every now and then. However while mucking about the config.ini I found a change that seems to improve my system stability. Been playing for nearly 2 hours without a crash, and the game seems to perform much better.

config.ini is found under C:\My Documents\My games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\

the setting to change is:

[User Settings]

; Set to 1 to enable threaded submission to D3D11
Threaded Submission = 1

Change the above value to 0.

YMMV, but hope this helps.

 

[Dearmad]

and that disabled what?

 

[Mahi]

Doesn't look like it's something that can help people running the game with directx 9

 

[The_J]

Moderator Action: Moved to tech support.

I hope it will help someone else.

 

[Minmaster]

what does that actually do though? i'm so sick of random crashing...

 

[tokala]

what does that actually do though? i'm so sick of random crashing...

I would guess that it enables the video driver to use multiple threads if enabled.

But disabling it does not seem to help for everyone, for me this results in the mother of all memory leaks
Set to "0", Civ gobbles up main memory at about 100MB/s, with the predictable result of crashing after roughly 20 seconds

 

[Minmaster]

yea this caused even quicker crashing... ugh