What can I do to reduce crashes?

[wheelman82]

I'm thinking about trying to get back into Civ 5 with VP, but last time I played my games ended up crashing very frequently.
Now, I'm aware that it is a RAM related limitation of Civ 5 that you can't really do anything about, but I was wondering, what things can I do? Besides playing smaller maps, I'm a sucker for big maps with plenty of Civs.
Does reducing graphics quality have any effect? Playing windowed maybe? Strategic view? Does disabling events make a difference?

The last time I played was on a different PC, the current one is a lot beefier, but that probably doesn't matter much, but since I play older games a lot, I focused on having powerful individual cores in the CPU, if that makes any difference (I doubt it)

I am willing to try playing on smaller maps, but if there is anything I can do, I'd rather play on huge.

(This whole thing pushed me to try Civ 6, but I didn't really get into it as much as I did in Civ 5, I found myself yearning for VP again)

 

[vyyt]

I think unless you use too many extra mods which can cause mod conflicts or eat up too much memory, the crashes are totally luck-depended.

I play huge Tectonic maps which are actually huger than standard huge and with 18-22 civs and I games are almost never crashing on my 2 computers. Yes, the AI turns get slower in the late game, but I haven't had a crash for ages.

Maybe you will also be lucky with your new machine.

I do not reduce the graphics drastically (and I never play in the Strategic view), but of you experience crashes again, maybe this can help?

https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...2011-pc-and-how-to-make-it-run-faster.663641/

 

[Zealot81]

Maybe one of the mods you use causes crashes. Try running VP only. I've been playing Civ5 with and without VP for many years on 5-6 PCs/laptops and honestly I don't remember any serious crashes except from those caused by mods like Really Advanced Setup. It may be also your Windows configuration (drivers, background tasks, even antivirus software, who knows, a long time ago my system randomly crashed because of... a faulty PS/2 mouse . If possible try running Civ on a freshly installed Windows 10 with good graphics drivers and see what happens. Good luck!

 

[brutalz]

I think unless you use too many extra mods which can cause mod conflicts or eat up too much memory, the crashes are totally luck-depended.

I play huge Tectonic maps which are actually huger than standard huge and with 18-22 civs and I games are almost never crashing on my 2 computers. Yes, the AI turns get slower in the late game, but I haven't had a crash for ages.

Maybe you will also be lucky with your new machine.

I do not reduce the graphics drastically (and I never play in the Strategic view), but of you experience crashes again, maybe this can help?

https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...2011-pc-and-how-to-make-it-run-faster.663641/

vyyt do you play with any extra mods?

 

[pineappledan]

Strategic mode is your friend

 

[wheelman82]

I just completed my first game, and it didn't even crash once, on a huge map with 17 civs, so I guess the new PC did make a huge difference.
The old one had... strange issues, like blue screening after coming out of standby mode on occasion, so I suppose it makes sense.

 

[andersw]

Large maps, high difficulty and late game is usually a combination that cause trouble.
All these increase the number of units and tile improvements on the maps.
Add extra mods and it gets worse.

 

[Drakul]

I just completed my first game, and it didn't even crash once, on a huge map with 17 civs, so I guess the new PC did make a huge difference.
The old one had... strange issues, like blue screening after coming out of standby mode on occasion, so I suppose it makes sense.

What are your specs ?

 

[wheelman82]

Intel I7 9700k CPU
32gb RAM
RTX 2080 Ti
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB

I had a lot of money saved up when I bought these parts, so I kinda went all in, as it turns out, having your own income (even if it's not that much), and no real hobbies outside of PC gaming meant that I was saving up quite a lot of money.
The older one had some sort of I5 CPU, I don't really remember which, 16gb of RAM, a GTX 1060, and a fairly old 2TB HDD