MaverickMila
Chieftain
Hello all.
I just bought Civ4 and have been trying to get it to work on my Vista laptop. After patching it up to 1.61 and moving some DLL files around, I've finally got it working. I've still got one problem, however.
Every game I try to play crashes. There's no one set trigger, but it will always consistently crash at the same time. For example, in one game, I finish building a mine, and bam! back to Desktop. Since I save games impulsively I reload and think, OK, maybe it's the mine that's killing it and cancel the mine construction. At the point in time when the mine would have finished being constructed, it shuts down. I pretty much tell every unit to stop what its doing, and always at that point it shuts down. In another game, I discover bronze working, and boom, same deal. I switch tehcnologies being researched -- just in case -- but every time I get to the turn where the bronze working would have been discovered, it dies.
There's no error, no nothing -- just back to the Desktop. No matter how many times I reload the same save game, it will always crash at the same point. I haven't yet been able to finish a game. Heck, I haven't ever managed to discover gunpowder.
Has anybody heard of this error and/or a fix for it? Please?
My specs are:
Windows Vista Ultimate (SP2) 32bit, 4GB RAM, Intel Core2 Duo CPU T9500 @ 2.60 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Thanks!
Mila
I just bought Civ4 and have been trying to get it to work on my Vista laptop. After patching it up to 1.61 and moving some DLL files around, I've finally got it working. I've still got one problem, however.
Every game I try to play crashes. There's no one set trigger, but it will always consistently crash at the same time. For example, in one game, I finish building a mine, and bam! back to Desktop. Since I save games impulsively I reload and think, OK, maybe it's the mine that's killing it and cancel the mine construction. At the point in time when the mine would have finished being constructed, it shuts down. I pretty much tell every unit to stop what its doing, and always at that point it shuts down. In another game, I discover bronze working, and boom, same deal. I switch tehcnologies being researched -- just in case -- but every time I get to the turn where the bronze working would have been discovered, it dies.
There's no error, no nothing -- just back to the Desktop. No matter how many times I reload the same save game, it will always crash at the same point. I haven't yet been able to finish a game. Heck, I haven't ever managed to discover gunpowder.
Has anybody heard of this error and/or a fix for it? Please?
My specs are:
Windows Vista Ultimate (SP2) 32bit, 4GB RAM, Intel Core2 Duo CPU T9500 @ 2.60 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Thanks!
Mila
