Video Problems with Civ4

[Atskuli]

Hello!


I've been having these problems. When I play Civ4 for about 15-30min it crashes to a strange splitted green screen and I have to reboot to gain control of my comp again. I have tried to download newest patches and drivers, but it doesn't help.

My system is:

Geforce4 64MB
RAM 512MB
1,7 gHz

 

[Divide Overflow]

What size world did you select for your game? Try dual, tiny or small. It sounds like you are running into some of the memory problems that especially plague the medium to large world sized games.

 

[Atskuli]

Yea, that could probably be it, but the recommended system requirements says 512MB, so if I crash on big maps, shouldn't the recommended be higher?

But i guess that could be true, because I usually crash on big maps and Terra.

 

[Zydor]

In your second post you said you played big maps, and always crashed on them. There is a major memory issue in Civ IV - Firaxis know, they'll fix it - meanwhile the Harkonnen Patch has helped the majority of people in this category of problem. Go here

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=146309

Instructions on the first post of the thread, you need to do 2 settings yourself, but its easy to do, Harky gives intructions there. Also scan read the thread, you will see discussions on the settings. The people on the thread are v helpful, so post there re settings if you have problems.

Has not worked for all, but its v successful overall. The thread went through the 100,000 hit mark this weekend ....

Good Luck

Regards
Zy

 

[robaughjr]

Yea, that could probably be it, but the recommended system requirements says 512MB, so if I crash on big maps, shouldn't the recommended be higher?

Yes it definately should, when I bought the game I swear that the official site said 256mb was the minimum-can't prove it though. It took buying another 512mb stick and the patch mentioned in Zydor's post above to make my game playable.

 

[Trevas]

A lot of people are blaming memory for their problems. Yes, there does seem to be an apparent memory issue - but that wouldn't cause many of these hard boots we are seeing. I finally noticed with my PC, my HD was overheating (my HD was in the wrong bay.. without a fan) Every time a HD or CPU gets to a cutoff point (dictated by Windows or an advanced user) The computer will auto-boot or freeze up.

Make sure your HD, CPU and AGP are properly cooled. This game uses MASSIVE amounts of resources and will run your system hot.