PATCH 1.09 is out!

[Brinoch]

After installing the patch, I'm getting a lot of system freezes -- seemingly when it tries to autosave. I mean the kind where I have to restart my system. It's not just late in the game, either, and I'm incredibly frustrated. Prior to the 1.09 patch, the game ran slow, but fine.

The game is still somewhat lagging, as well.

I've played maybe one or two games to completion since things slow down so much at the end of the game. I'd like to think this patch has fixed things, but since I'm crashing regularly now, I doubt it.

[Cordelayne]

I think Civ4 is a great game, which had some bugs and was running too slow before the patch. After the 1.09 patch, which took some time to download to two computers over a satellite connection, that's still exactly what I think. Great game. A little buggy. A bit laggy. Some mysterious crashes. Excellent game design combined with kludgy programming. I can live with it, although I hope it gets better with more patches.

[kravex]

After installing the patch, I'm getting a lot of system freezes -- seemingly when it tries to autosave. I mean the kind where I have to restart my system. It's not just late in the game, either, and I'm incredibly frustrated. Prior to the 1.09 patch, the game ran slow, but fine.

Same here, may have to uninstall and reload version 1.0 back in and wait till next patch.

PS. First time I've ever seen a patch that made a game worse for me...

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, I don't think it has changed anything regarding the stability on my system - I upgraded the drivers again once I had installed the patch but it made absolutely no difference whatsoever so I rolled the drivers back and it seems to be working alright and with very few problems under those except for a crash every few hours...nice to see the Ironworks working properly again, I did make a little modification to the custom XML (prior to the patch) to make it functional by just giving it a straight bonus to production, but it is nice to to have to need that any more!

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Patch dont help nothing for me - Movies still totally locks up my system - Have to cut the power haha !!!
P3 3ghz
ATI X800
2GB ram.
New drivers and so on.
Maybe I'm just unlucky, but have to say that in my 20 years of gaming this is by far the must buggy and unstabel pc game I have ever experienced.
And no I'm not going to do the Q&A work 2kgames should have done before release.

It's just not good enough
For everybody with no problems - ENJOY THE GAME!!! (Know I would)

[Provost Harrison]

I do get concerned about the QA employed sometimes and how it works in other sectors. I work in the pharmaceutical company in QA and we have to be pretty damn strict on quality - let's face it, if a batch contained a dangerous impurity and we let it through because we missed 'a few problems' the consequences could be catastrophic...and in the modern day that happening is virtually impossible now. Shame that the QA in some of these games companies doesn't come up to the same high standards...

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Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I do get concerned about the QA employed sometimes and how it works in other sectors. I work in the pharmaceutical company in QA and we have to be pretty damn strict on quality - let's face it, if a batch contained a dangerous impurity and we let it through because we missed 'a few problems' the consequences could be catastrophic...and in the modern day that happening is virtually impossible now. Shame that the QA in some of these games companies doesn't come up to the same high standards...

Agree - It's not like a buggy Civ4 could kills us (or what?)
Well selling a product before it's done makes good sense. Get the money now, make the product later hehe. Business as usual

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, it's a bit of a problem, but on the other hand, I don't think anyone would have been happy here if the game had been delayed for another three months, and as the game is not having too much of a problem on my system it doesn't bother me too much either.

And as I said, I made a workaround for the ironworks...

[Orcrist]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I do get concerned about the QA employed sometimes and how it works in other sectors. I work in the pharmaceutical company in QA and we have to be pretty damn strict on quality - let's face it, if a batch contained a dangerous impurity and we let it through because we missed 'a few problems' the consequences could be catastrophic...and in the modern day that happening is virtually impossible now. Shame that the QA in some of these games companies doesn't come up to the same high standards...

Maybe that's something to do with the P.C. Games market being something like $20 - $30 Billion, and the Pharma market being something like $345 Billion? Not to mention the whole Government regulation of the latter....

-chris

[Velociryx]

I got the same strange message already posted about "not being able to find a valid source for Civ 4, patch cannot be installed" then, after several minutes, it DID install (or seemed to). Rebooted, and on game start, I get up to "Init XML (cached)" and then the application stops running.

That's as far as I can get, so for the time being, I'm backing off of the patch.

-=Vel=-

[Velociryx]

completely uninstalled the game and tried again with a fresh install. Same result.

Standing down from the patch for the time being.

-=Vel=-

EDIT: Got it working! After two additional reboots and doing some internal tweaking, I think I got the new patch to run! At least I can get to the game start screen, so will proceed cautiously from there!

-v.

[Dauphin]

The patch now prevents me from continuing any MP game in which I used a password. Great!

[Fidel]

i guess i am really lucky. those serbian IT guys must be really good in assembling machines. zero ctds, zero problems, both 1.00 and 1.09.

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by Dauphin
The patch now prevents me from continuing any MP game in which I used a password. Great!

Password encryption was added, so it seems that would make passworded saves unable to be backward compatible. There was a similar situation with Conquests v1.21, except there were alot more PBEM games a lot further along going on by that time...

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by Orcrist
Maybe that's something to do with the P.C. Games market being something like $20 - $30 Billion, and the Pharma market being something like $345 Billion? Not to mention the whole Government regulation of the latter....

Imagine a US congressional hearing back in the 1920s: "Doctors, pharmacists, dope fiends; we're here to warn you that if you don't start to rate your own drugs and curtail the Mexicans and Negroes that are running rampant, we'll do it for you..." Where would America be today?

Oh, you said not to mention it...