v1.00 BUG Reports

[alva]

What happens if you remove some FOG? There's a good chance the minimap may clear up again. I know, not really a solution but better than nothing.

[zafzo]

Map bug

FYI: Update your drivers. 99% of problems with new games are driver related.

I've had map corruption when alt tabbing in and out. This was only on the mini map and on the main map when zoomed out past the point where you can't see the units anymore. Game restart and no alt tabbing fixed that.

I also had issues with the game locking up when zooming in and out with the mouse wheel. I had nvidia's graphics driver version 79.xx. I upgraded to the latest drivers (81.xx) and it stopped. Any resolution above 1024x768 is super sluggish with SLI. Turn off SLI and 1600x1200 is crazy awesome. Guess I just need to wait for nvidia to come out with a SLI profile for Civ 4.

System:

DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR
Athlon 64 4000+
GeForce 6800 Ultra x2 (SLI)
2GB Corsair XMS3200 (2-2-2-5)
74GB WD Raptor 10K x4 (SATA Raid 10)
Unknown ghettofied CD-ROM drive I dug up
WinXP Pro SP2

Had no problems at all with Civ 4 on my other machine:

Abit UL8
Athon 64 3200+
ATI 9800 Pro
1GB Kingston HyperX 3200 (2-3-3-8)
160GB Seagate SATA
Yet another ghetto CD-ROM.
WinXP Pro SP2

[ZargonX]

Serious crash bug:

Lost the game to American civ completing spaceship. Taken to the "recap" screen, whereupon received 1/2 second of "blue screen of death" followed immediately by computer reboot.

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Windows XP (SP2)
Pentium4 2.8ghz
1gb RAM

[Didymus]

Well, this is kinda minor, but when I tried to run the game and couldn't [I had the mislabeled CD problem, Special Edition] I decided to read the readme file shown under the start menu, but it does not exist!
Real cute.
Not a show-stopper, & I know lots of you have much worse problems, but for the sake of completeness I thought I'd note it.

Also, I had a problem with F11/Global view and trying to zoom back down & crashing ... or something like that, my memory is fuzzy and I was taken by suprise. Had to cycle the power, it crashed hard. I assume its a glitch with my SLI 7800s -- I've had crashes during resolution switches in AoW:SM.

Dual core AMD
Win XP/SP2
Nvidia 7800*2 (SLI), PCI-Express
1024 MB RAM

[MrFun]

I read most of the posts in here. Thanks for all the information -- I'm definitely going to have to wait before buying the game. I have one of the latest NVIDIA card and 1 GB for memory speed for my laptop but I'm still going to wait.

[Arrian]

BLAH.

ANYONE WHO CAN HELP, PLEASE DO SO:


Ok, what does this error mean (during installation - incidently, this is the second problem I've had - the other time it crashed 1/2 way through installing disk 2):

Feature: Defaultfeature
Component:
File:
Error: Catastrophic Error

This happened partway into the install of disk 1.

Ooh, I tried again and this time I got a second popup error message:

Runtime Error!
Program: C:/DOCUME~1/Robert/LOCALS~1/Temp/set14.temp

R6025
-pure virtual function call

What the hell?

[Arnelos]

I have the exact same bug that someone else complained about 2 pages before, but I'm only using 1 monitor, not two.

FIRST: All movies, including the intro movie and all of the wonder movies, run choppy. I have looked in vain for a way to turn these moves OFF so that they don't screw up my system every time they run.

SECOND: Starting at about 500 AD or later, the game was getting incredibly choppy. Most of my specs are at the recommended level, but my processor is at the minimum level, so I suspect it's just a simple issue of too many things to process at once. I turned down the graphical settings and this mostly solved the issue.

THIRD: Despite this, the game likes to do this sweeping zoom in motion when a new wonder is completed. I have found by testing it that if I complete ANY WONDER after about 1200 AD, despite lower graphical settings, I will get a crash bug with blue screen that either:

A) Crashes my system entirely, forcing me to reboot.

B) Crashes me to desktop stuck with 800x600 resolution and 4 colors. My graphics card settings become inaccessible for some reason.

Basically, I can't play the game beyond about 1200 AD and build any wonders. If I could find way to at least TURN OFF that silly graphical sweeping camera motion, I figure I could save myself from the crash bug (not to mention a way to turn off wonder movies, which are nothing but aggravation). That said, I can find no way to turn off either.

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System Specs:
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O/S: Windows XP SP2
Processor: AMD Athlon ~1.208 MHz
Motherboard: Piece of S***(tm) from ASUS (I'm not kidding...)
Memory: 512 MB
Video Card: nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE (128 MB of RAM)
Sound Card: Creative SBLive!
Hard Drive: about 19 GB of free space out of 55 GB total

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Again, if I can just find a way to TURN OFF that stupid sweeping camera motion and the wonder movies, I'd probably be fine.

[alva]

INI:

NoMovies=1

[Aeson]

Originally posted by Arnelos
FIRST: All movies, including the intro movie and all of the wonder movies, run choppy. I have looked in vain for a way to turn these moves OFF so that they don't screw up my system every time they run.

Open My Documents\My Games\Civ4whatever\Civilization4.ini

; Set to 1 for no in-game movies
NoMovies = 0

THIRD: Despite this, the game likes to do this sweeping zoom in motion when a new wonder is completed. I have found by testing it that if I complete ANY WONDER after about 1200 AD, despite lower graphical settings, I will get a crash bug with blue screen that either:

A) Crashes my system entirely, forcing me to reboot.

B) Crashes me to desktop stuck with 800x600 resolution and 4 colors. My graphics card settings become inaccessible for some reason.

Not sure on this. Do you have "Effects Disabled" and "Globe View Buildings Disabled" in options?

[Wittlich]

Originally posted by Arnelos
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System Specs:
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O/S: Windows XP SP2
Processor: AMD Athlon ~1.208 MHz
Motherboard: Piece of S***(tm) from ASUS (I'm not kidding...)
Memory: 512 MB
Video Card: nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE (128 MB of RAM)
Sound Card: Creative SBLive!
Hard Drive: about 19 GB of free space out of 55 GB total

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I believe the recommended processor speed is 1.5 Ghz. You only have (approximately) a 1.2 Ghz...this could be part of your problem Arnelos...

[Arrian]

Any ideas on my problem (I don't mean to be pushy, but I was all excited and now I can't even install the game - very, very frustrating!)

-Arrian

[Wittlich]

What are your system specs Arrian?

[Arrian]

Now that's a good question. How do I call those up again?

The processor is fast enough (~1.8 I think) and I have enough memory (256MB). Other than that... I think my vcard is a Geforce...

Doh, my ignorance begins to show.

-Arrian

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by Aeson
Not sure on this. Do you have "Effects Disabled" and "Globe View Buildings Disabled" in options?

I had already enabled both of those options. System still crashes when it does that stupid camera sweep and starts the wonder movie.

[Arrian]

No, make that 1.7 processor and 512 RAM.

edit:

Videocard: Nvidia GeForce FX 5500
Plenty of harddrive space (26.4 gig in the D drive, 2.0 in the C... I've tried both, neither works)
Sound: