Jazz_Newton
Warlord
- Joined
- Nov 24, 2001
- Messages
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Hey,
I can't remember mentioning any specific posts referring to Wonder movies causing a CTD, so sorry if this is a repeated issue.
I've started two games so far, and both have eventually been rendered as unplayable due to CTD caused by (or caused simultaneously to) Wonder Movies.
Game Settings:
Game 1: Standard Game, Continents Map, Huge, Playing as Persians.
Game 2: Standard Game, Continents Map, Normal Size, Playing as Napoleon
Detailed Bug Report:
Game 1: Mid-game ('era' that includes Astronomy, etc). Game crashes while initialising 'Haga Sophia' wonder movie. Game has loaded previous wonder movies slowly, but all have played and none have hinted at causing a CTD. Computer restarted, game reloaded via autosave, game crashes again at the exact same point in time (initialising said wonder movie). Exact same results on third attempt.
Game 2: Mid-game ('era' that includes Astronomy, etc). Game crashes while initialising 'Angkor Wat' wonder movie. Restart, reload, crash in exact same place. SPECIAL NOTE: The Haga Sophia (offending wonder from game 1) was constructed by me in this game and the wonder movie played flawlessly.
System Specs:
Laptop
Pentium 4 3.06 Ghz
512MB ram
Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200 (64MB)
Random Thoughts:
*Can't be file corruption because the problem movie in Game 1 worked fine in Game 2.
*Can't be a system-based memory leak, as exiting and reloading would delay the CTD, but it happens in exactly the same spot everytime.
* Hypothesis (and i don't even know if this is possible!): Civ4 acts as a memory hog, but it actually stores its memory allocation in the savegame, meaning when I reload the game it also reloads all the unneccesary stuff that was hogging memory in the first place. This would cause the CTD to occur at the exact same place in time.
Will post a saved game after i try a few more things.
I can't remember mentioning any specific posts referring to Wonder movies causing a CTD, so sorry if this is a repeated issue.
I've started two games so far, and both have eventually been rendered as unplayable due to CTD caused by (or caused simultaneously to) Wonder Movies.
Game Settings:
Game 1: Standard Game, Continents Map, Huge, Playing as Persians.
Game 2: Standard Game, Continents Map, Normal Size, Playing as Napoleon
Detailed Bug Report:
Game 1: Mid-game ('era' that includes Astronomy, etc). Game crashes while initialising 'Haga Sophia' wonder movie. Game has loaded previous wonder movies slowly, but all have played and none have hinted at causing a CTD. Computer restarted, game reloaded via autosave, game crashes again at the exact same point in time (initialising said wonder movie). Exact same results on third attempt.
Game 2: Mid-game ('era' that includes Astronomy, etc). Game crashes while initialising 'Angkor Wat' wonder movie. Restart, reload, crash in exact same place. SPECIAL NOTE: The Haga Sophia (offending wonder from game 1) was constructed by me in this game and the wonder movie played flawlessly.
System Specs:
Laptop
Pentium 4 3.06 Ghz
512MB ram
Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200 (64MB)
Random Thoughts:
*Can't be file corruption because the problem movie in Game 1 worked fine in Game 2.
*Can't be a system-based memory leak, as exiting and reloading would delay the CTD, but it happens in exactly the same spot everytime.
* Hypothesis (and i don't even know if this is possible!): Civ4 acts as a memory hog, but it actually stores its memory allocation in the savegame, meaning when I reload the game it also reloads all the unneccesary stuff that was hogging memory in the first place. This would cause the CTD to occur at the exact same place in time.
Will post a saved game after i try a few more things.
