Hi,
I had some problems with civ4 when I just got it, it crashed around a certain year once or twice but after a few tries I got past it. The crashes started to get more random after that, but generally more occurred in more in late game than early game. The crashes would be a complete black screen and loss of sound which could only be fixed by manually restarting, the computer's LED "on" symbol was still glowing. I couldn't find a fix for it when I searched, the consensus from the forums I read was "The game was tested much, that's just an issue a lot of people live with." Thing is, I usually run some much more intense games on this (at least I think they are more intense), like TF2 at max settings or DoW:II at reasonable ones. Here are the specs on my computer for reference:
Dell XPS m1730 Laptop: WoW edition
card: NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT
2 (as in # of) Intel Core Duo CPU T8300 @2.4GHz
4 GB RAM
I got frustrated enough after a few months of the crashes and I decided that updating my drivers couldn't hurt, so I did
. And it stopped crashing...and started overheating...
It would make a disconcerting "popping" noise and do the same black screen and then prompt me at reboot with a menu telling me it had overheated. Diagnostics told me the fans were going even a bit faster than normal RPM. Thing was, everything was on minimal settings. I had stopped all animations, went to single-unit packs and fast turns etc. Looking at my specs and the comparative things I run I honestly don't think my computer is overheating trying to run what i have turned down enough to look like fancy chess (not to insult the game's graphics!
), and it's not overheating at any special time like a massive auto-resolve on a battle. I monitored my performance while playing and it ranges from like 32% to 82% (with actually no relation to the game at all as far as I can tell, it'll vary that much in the same frozen turn 
), fans going accordingly. Btw, the cooling system on my computer is massive. My friend suggested some sort of memory leak or that the game itself might be fiddling with how my processing works, have there been fixes for this before? And does Civ4 fiddle with how the processor works?
-Darksatyr
I had some problems with civ4 when I just got it, it crashed around a certain year once or twice but after a few tries I got past it. The crashes started to get more random after that, but generally more occurred in more in late game than early game. The crashes would be a complete black screen and loss of sound which could only be fixed by manually restarting, the computer's LED "on" symbol was still glowing. I couldn't find a fix for it when I searched, the consensus from the forums I read was "The game was tested much, that's just an issue a lot of people live with." Thing is, I usually run some much more intense games on this (at least I think they are more intense), like TF2 at max settings or DoW:II at reasonable ones. Here are the specs on my computer for reference:
Dell XPS m1730 Laptop: WoW edition
card: NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT
2 (as in # of) Intel Core Duo CPU T8300 @2.4GHz
4 GB RAM
I got frustrated enough after a few months of the crashes and I decided that updating my drivers couldn't hurt, so I did
. And it stopped crashing...and started overheating...It would make a disconcerting "popping" noise and do the same black screen and then prompt me at reboot with a menu telling me it had overheated. Diagnostics told me the fans were going even a bit faster than normal RPM. Thing was, everything was on minimal settings. I had stopped all animations, went to single-unit packs and fast turns etc. Looking at my specs and the comparative things I run I honestly don't think my computer is overheating trying to run what i have turned down enough to look like fancy chess (not to insult the game's graphics!
), and it's not overheating at any special time like a massive auto-resolve on a battle. I monitored my performance while playing and it ranges from like 32% to 82% (with actually no relation to the game at all as far as I can tell, it'll vary that much in the same frozen turn ), fans going accordingly. Btw, the cooling system on my computer is massive. My friend suggested some sort of memory leak or that the game itself might be fiddling with how my processing works, have there been fixes for this before? And does Civ4 fiddle with how the processor works?-Darksatyr
