Yeah,how many times has this game crashed on you?

[aaronflavor]

You should have included a poll. The game has never crashed for me, probably because my software is in reasonable condition, my configuration is fairly ordinary, and my system has plenty of memory and other resources.

It's my perception that most people who have trouble with Civ have low memory. Of course, it shouldn't be this way--but the state of computer programming presently does not handle low memory gracefully. Most programmers are taught to ignore low memory conditions.

There are also a very significant percentage of people who have genuine hardware problems. This includes defective electronics, improper installation, heat problems, and more. Computationally-expensive programs tend to aggrevate these sorts of problems, particularly long-running ones like Civ. There are various sorts of software testers you can get to probe for these problems.

 

[blargh]

Running CIv4 on a hyperthreaded P4 3.01 GHz, 512 Mb 400 MHz DDR, ATI Radeon 9550.

Had quite a few crashes with v1.09 and 1.52 but tweaked some of the settings and haven't crashed in quite a while. I used to get the deaded out of video memory fatal error a lot but no longer seems to be a problem.

 

[Stylesjl]

Once and only once

Appearently it was a video memory overflow, but it never happened again, never

 

[BirraImperial]

I installed yesterday Civ4 at work (I know, but i just can't stay away form this game!) on a hp d220 pc with one of those crappy intel 8xxx chipsets (you know, the ones that have no longer support from intel and have no T&L), and the game runs on minimal settings, the d220 is 512MB of RAM and Pentium 4 3.2 GHZ. I have not risked to play a map larger than normal though. my notebook has the specs on my sig, so I think most problems when running Civ 4 are drivers and software related.

 

[Bluetooth]

A couple of times, no more.

 

[ZippyRiver]

Never had a crash, and I am below min specs.

P4 2GHz, 256 MB ram, Onboard video (cheezy old compaq).

It runs fine, but slows down a lot when I get someone's world map, but still not unbearable. 1.52 helped a lot with scrolling lag. I usually play standard or large maps. No noticeable difference between the two sizes.

 

[Joshua22]

Not once. Even when running anti virus software.

 

[grumbler]

Exactly once so far.

 

[jameson]

Twice.

Ironically, I had no problems at all before 1.52, afterwards, I get temporary graphic distortions, it's crashed directly to reboot once and to desktop the other time complaining about a lack of video memory. This with a 256MB vid card and 1 gig of ram.

 

[Velvet-Glove]

I've been playing intensively since the day the game was released - I've not had any crashes.

 

[Xcalibur]

2,4 512 megs, I have the crap 5600 nvidia.

Game is correct till the modern era.

Never crashed (been 3 months I have it).

I do want to play at max quality and still not being forced to open up my books because each turn take 3 minutes.

 

[Magic Mushroom]

my game crashes almost every time i play it,and i have a windows XP home editions... thats jsut sad, but its worth it!!!

 

[Woody]

I had many crashes at first, Hark's patch eliminated them on 1.09 and I have been crash free since 1.52 came out.

 

[Exponent]

Too many times to count. I've never finished a whole game. Granted, I started out insisting on playing huge maps, and eventually toned it down to large maps, but still.

Computer has an Athlon 1800+ with 512 MB RAM and a GeForce4 GPU. Not phenomenal, but not utterly crappy either. After the first patch, things improved a bit, but not enough. I did a clean reinstall of windows which didn't help. The second patch improved things some more, but I still can't get past 1800 or 1900 without being obsessive about rebooting the computer and watching loading screens almost constantly.

So now I haven't played for a month. I could play a game all the way through if it were merely slow. But crashing all the time is just too frustrating. And I'm not paying a bunch more money to get more RAM that *may* improve things just to play a $50 game. I'll wait until I get a new computer a year or two from now and come back to it. Or wait until they release a patch that works for the apparently rare few (including me) who are left with an overly unstable experience.

 

[enchanter100]

I had a few crash issues with my radeon 9800 pro. Now that I have an x850 XT no crashes at all. I have a gig of ram.

 

[bivvend]

Never crashed for me.

 

[sayhey]

I have had 1 crash . Runs fine .

 

[player1 fanatic]

For me very rarely.
It did happend once of twice in 2 months of playing.

But that's what for is Autosave feature.

 

[Linthar]

I think it has crashed on me around 4-5 times most of which was the computer deciding to randomly restart, but I think the times the computer randomly restarted was the computers fault, not the games, because I've my computer seems to have a annoying habit of randomly restarting in general.

 

[Daarkseid]

I have nearly the exact same specs as the OP, with differences being the 256 mb 6600GT and a regular stick of Samsung 512 DDR400.

The game has only crashed when I played a huge map up to around 1950, when the game would crash to desktop when the game attempted to cycle to an active unit starting in my core city region. At this point in the game, I had destroyed three other civs, occupied massive amounts of two continents, and had hundreds of units built. I'm guessing the magnitude of the game was such that it was sort of collapsing in on itself(when I'd reload, the game would crash at the same moment). The last save file itself was only a few kbs away from being a full 1mb file.