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My system: amd 3200+, nvidia geforce 6800gt 256, 1.5 gb RAM
Initially I would crash all the time (never to desktop, always the 'checkerboard' system crash). After reading this and other boards I found many suggestions, and these two, when combined, fixed the problem for me. Doing just one of them would prolong the time I could play but the crash would eventually come.
* Download RivaTuner. In the DirectX settings, on the shaders tab, set Pixel shader to 1.4 and Vertex shader to 1.1. Reboot.
* Play in windowed mode. You can change this in your civ4 ini-file.
As a bonus, this has also fixed the minimap corruption bug that would always come after a while. I have played 2 ~12 hrs games without a single crash after doing these two things.
Initially I would crash all the time (never to desktop, always the 'checkerboard' system crash). After reading this and other boards I found many suggestions, and these two, when combined, fixed the problem for me. Doing just one of them would prolong the time I could play but the crash would eventually come.
* Download RivaTuner. In the DirectX settings, on the shaders tab, set Pixel shader to 1.4 and Vertex shader to 1.1. Reboot.
* Play in windowed mode. You can change this in your civ4 ini-file.
As a bonus, this has also fixed the minimap corruption bug that would always come after a while. I have played 2 ~12 hrs games without a single crash after doing these two things.
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