V1.52 - Doesn't Run but 1.09 did???

[gary328]

Help!! i've went out and bought a new graphics card and power supply to run this game. version 1.09 didn't work well but at least I could play until it crashed. I loaded v1.52 and now it doesn't even run at all! What do I need to do?

I meet the minimum requirements P4 1.6 - 512k - 128 GF6200

 

[gary328]

I hope this helps. Thanks

 

[ncat]

Put your saved games in a safe place. Uninstall the game. Go to the places on your hard drive where the game was: Application data/my games; my documents\my games and delete all of it. If you have used a registry cleaner, use it again. Re-install, patch with the 1.52 only. Put your saved games back, and ther you go.
Bona fortuna

 

[Zydor]

Also increase pagefile to 2000mb (min=max) - doubt its an issue at the moment, but could be later depending on your style of play - its a memory hungry beast

Regards
Zy

 

[gary328]

and what does that do?

 

[Zydor]

Applications - games in particular - do run out of actual memory space (RAM) for a vast number of legitimate reasons. It then dumps the information it has in memory -but is not not needed at that instant in time - into a temporary area on the disc - the pagefile. If that is too small, it can at times cause the whole thing to crash as it runs out of space. Civ IV is very memory hungry, and although the latest patch did a good job in reducing memory needs, a decent sized pagefile is never a bad thing. This kind of problem can especially occur if you run several apps at the same time.

The setting min=max stops the pagefile from being fragmented into several bits, marginally improving speed of retrieval (although in perspective the latter is not a huge difference). Going above 2000mb is way OTT and rarely needed, usually only by serious graphics designers - the other 99.99% of us in real world use dont need a bigger pagefile than 2000mb - usually .....

So all in all far easier to set to 2000mb min=max and let windows get on with it. There are other pagefile strategies that will produce a marginal speed improvement of aka 1 or 2 % but its not worth messing around for that for the average user.

(right click "My Computer " icon - select properties - advanced tab - Performance-settings button then then advanced tab - then virtual memory settings button) The saga getting it at it is a subtle clue that its not worth messing around with it all the time - just set it and leave it.

Regards
Zy

 

[Gr3yHound]

wheep,
so 1.09 ran after u bought the new gfx?

Hm, since you bought a new gfx i´d start by reinstalling directX and uninstalling gfx drivers and reinstalling the latest ones.
I guess you probably already did that =(( i´ve no clue