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Civfreak1970
Are you joking? LOL
Civfreak1970
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You know snoopy369, I really appreciate all the work you're doing to help us run the game...but it shouldn't require all this work. No other game company requires this. My Dell is a (2004) P4 3.06 GH; has 1022 MB Ram and it's upsetting to be informed I need to update my motherboard drivers/bios. No other game company requires this.
The game runs fine until the first religious clip runs. Then the fonts disappear and the font graphics become garbled. (I get a bunch of lines in place of titles). The game continues to run ok for about an hour but locks up and only a hard reboot will solve the problem.
My graphic card is NVidia 440 with current drivers.Comment
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Just got off the phone from Take2Games...
There is a patch in the works! They cant give me a release date yet and they are very much aware the game has bugs! They are getting phone calls streaming in with people with complaints and bugs! I asked why they couldnt just post something and they said only the Civ4 Developers at Firaxis have the power to do it and didnt know why they havent posted anything yet!
Patch is coming!
Civfreak1970Last edited by Civfreak1970; October 31, 2005, 18:47.Comment
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Re: Just got off the phone from Take2Games...
Well, I hope you're right.Originally posted by Civfreak1970
There is a patch in the works! They cant give me a release date yet and they are very much aware the game has bugs! They are getting phone calls streaming in with people with complaints and bugs! I asked why they couldnt just post something and they said only the Civ4 Developers at Firaxis have the power to do it and didnt know why they havent posted anything yet!
Patch is coming!
Civfreak1970
I tried this fix - still get sound that skips during intro and wonder movies.
I've updated the firmware all over my T42... updated every driver I can find... defragged my hard drive... you name it. My computer is as up to date as I can make it. :-)
Hopefully Firaxis will make this a really good patch...Comment
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What's really frustrating is that all the movies run great if I use the external .bnk player... so I know my system can handle the movies just fine... there's just something screwy with Civ4 here...Comment
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Made it crash again!
On a HUGE map with 18 Civs I was in about 1500 AD maybe later and had most of the world uncovered and I scrolled out to look at the planet and it slowlydumped to desktop. What I caught it doing was a Memory Leak-Video to game driver maybe problem from the Civ4 game and it not clearing its cache properly!
Game is very badly coded for memory!
Civfreak1970Last edited by Civfreak1970; November 1, 2005, 00:43.Comment
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MEMORY LEAK!
Huge map 18 Civs and get to about 1700AD and world map is mostly showing and all I can say is crash to desktop! This game has a bad MEMORY LEAK!
1 Gig Ram
256M Video Ram
2500-2500 Virtual Memory too!
Give me a break this is a bad MEMORY LEAK!(I have never had a single problem with ANY game until I found this bad piece of code called Civ4!)
How the HELL did this pass Beta and Q/A?(Fire that guy or the guy that said to ship it!)
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Dude, no offense, but... Do you even know what the words "memory leak" mean?Comment
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It means it LEAKS memory!
Civfreak1970
PS. The more load I put on the memory the faster it crashes...Then what else could it be?Comment
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Okay, uhm.
A memory leak is when a program's memory usage increases over time due to memory being allocated then "lost" to the program.
That does not necessarily mean that a program will crash faster if you are using more memory. Nothing you've covered so far gives a good basis for asserting that there's a memory leak. Indeed, if there were, it would have a lot more effect over a long small game than on a large map just after a load.
It's possible that this code has memory leaks (well, maybe; they could be using a good garbage collector). However, that doesn't seem to be a good fit for the observed crashes.Comment
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It does seem to have a leak though. Performance gets progressively worse over the course of a game session, you shut down and restart the game, and everything is wonderful again for a while longer. What would you attribute that to?"In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, HyperionComment
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If I were seeing that, I'd attribute it to a memory leak. I'm not seeing that. The majority of my crashes have come from a save game I have lying around which I can reliably crash the instant I load it. I haven't had much experience of performance degradation over time. A larger map, and/or larger civs, perform worse, but quitting and loading a huge game has no visible effects.Comment
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Well, it's what I've been seeing. I haven't really seen crashes--just twice, both when loading quick-saves. But the problem with video stuttering gets progressively worse the longer I play, and gets better after a restart...that's the main technical problem I've had."In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, HyperionComment
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*Sigh* I dont wanna summon the power of the Gods to properly play the game. I'll wait the patch.
I consider myself a computer savvy, but there are so many formulas and almost none works. Only a patch doing some real modifications will make this game work properly even with low details.Owww, I'm so cute! ^_^Comment
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Hehe
LOL...I win!
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