wondermovie crash to desktop

[Donderwolkje01]

hello, i can't seem to find if anyone posted this already, sorry bout that,

the googlesearch doesn't really work.

more of my friends are having this same problem. the moment at which you build your first wonder in the game, the movie freeze (well actually never shows), the music is really garbled (a 0.5 sec loop over and over again advancing 0.1 sec every cicle) the the game gives up and quits to the desktop.

i read, using the google search, that someone said to try and just load the savegame again, the second time it'll work. I tried that and the game doesn't freeze right after the wondermovie but when i click next turn. it crashes and says: FATAL ERROR unable to allocate ...

i'm using a standard 2 year old off the shelf dell dimension 8300 and the game with patch 1.52,

any help? suggestions? ideas?

kind regards and many thanks for your time.

 

[Donderwolkje01]

any ideas?

 

[asmodai]

None actually. On my system, which I built myself, I am getting stuttering movies as well and I suspect that it has to do with the memory allocation.

The Bink format they use is one that's used by a lot of games and is nowadays quite trouble free from what I know, so the only thing I can blame is the overal Civilization IV code.

 

[Donderwolkje01]

i did switch off the wondermovies, finding it in the ini file, now it works, barely.

but i should not be having to do this, the game should just work fine on my pc!

i also sometimes see unexplored land magically appear and disappear in the blackness and, floodswamps near rivers in deserts glow in the dark (also unexplored)

this sucks.

 

[Radfahrer]

Hey,

in my case a simple update of my GeForce 5200 driver solved the problem (refer to post "Wonder Problems")

 

[Donderwolkje01]

i saw lots of post of people trying to update their vid cards and destroying them actually.

i tried sliding down the hardware acceleration in dxdiag. this seems to make the game more smoother.

magical land still stays

 

[asmodai]

By the way Donder, did you also try playing the bink movies stand-alone? If they play without any issues then we have more evidence the programming of the game has issues.

By all means complain to Take 2 (their company name does seem awfully ironic by now) so that your complaint is officially logged. This fora do not add to that tally.