delay_llama
Chieftain
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2006
- Messages
- 3
Hello all, too bad my first post here is to be a bug report...
After installing the patch 1.61, civ started to freeze my computer completely after a while of playing.
I mean completely, I could not get the os (winXP)
to react in anyway, and the only button to have any effect is the reset...
It seems that this freezing doesen't occur in any set time of play, sometimes
it happens just after 15minutes, sometimes I get a good hour of play...
Also, it doesent seem to matter at which stage of the game I'm going.
Only exiting the program completely and reloading seems to alleviate the problem for a while..
Exiting to the startup screen did not seem to "zero" the countdown to lockup.
I have tried both windowed and full screen mode, Both present the same problem.
It shouldn't be a question of not meeting the minimum requirements, as my comp. is spexed for video editing (although a few years old...) Might be a memory problem? I have 1GB installed, and the bootup "test run" has reported no errors... My video card is ATI radeon 9600, and has not presented any of the anomalies reported here in the previous patches... propably because I got the game after the last major update, which obiously fixed the ati-problematics. But could it be, thet 1.61 has brought those problems back?
Come to think of it, doesent this kind of complete lockup occur also if the prosessor overheats? I have An amd athlon XP2700+ on a MSI motherboard...
But surely this would occur while running the processor-heavy editing tools
if it was a problem of overheat... And why would it manifest after a patch update?
Also, I note many people mentioning "autoclear cache" here.. How do I set the program to perform this? Just in case it might do the trick....
If anyone can help, I'd be most gratefull... All this rebooting can't be good for my computer..
-D_L
After installing the patch 1.61, civ started to freeze my computer completely after a while of playing.
I mean completely, I could not get the os (winXP)
to react in anyway, and the only button to have any effect is the reset...
It seems that this freezing doesen't occur in any set time of play, sometimes
it happens just after 15minutes, sometimes I get a good hour of play...
Also, it doesent seem to matter at which stage of the game I'm going.
Only exiting the program completely and reloading seems to alleviate the problem for a while..
Exiting to the startup screen did not seem to "zero" the countdown to lockup.
I have tried both windowed and full screen mode, Both present the same problem.
It shouldn't be a question of not meeting the minimum requirements, as my comp. is spexed for video editing (although a few years old...) Might be a memory problem? I have 1GB installed, and the bootup "test run" has reported no errors... My video card is ATI radeon 9600, and has not presented any of the anomalies reported here in the previous patches... propably because I got the game after the last major update, which obiously fixed the ati-problematics. But could it be, thet 1.61 has brought those problems back?
Come to think of it, doesent this kind of complete lockup occur also if the prosessor overheats? I have An amd athlon XP2700+ on a MSI motherboard...
But surely this would occur while running the processor-heavy editing tools
if it was a problem of overheat... And why would it manifest after a patch update?
Also, I note many people mentioning "autoclear cache" here.. How do I set the program to perform this? Just in case it might do the trick....
If anyone can help, I'd be most gratefull... All this rebooting can't be good for my computer..
-D_L
