PATCH 1.09 is out!

[Sarxis]

Originally posted by powerturks
i have so many friend play civ4 illegal version.with patch 1.09.i pay 49 U.S dollars.i must be stupid.))))

Why? Because you did what was right? In the end, you will see that it was better to do that than to steal it.

[andy_ktoi]

Originally posted by Wittlich
If anyone is interested to know if more RAM would help keep the game from crashing/freezing....My partner and I upgraded our RAM from 1 GB to 3 GB and after playing a LAN game for almost 6 hours straight, the game did not crash or freeze at all. Just food for thought. (This is, of course, with the 1.09 patch)

Great, so now I only need to find another 150 quid for ram, and another 100 quid for a fairly decent vid card. Hmmm...where can I get the money?

I know! Does anyone want to buy a hardly played version of civ 4 for 30 quid?

[Addled Platypus]

now my game crashes with the patch ???? no warning

was lucky i had saved a couple turns prior. I went 4-5 hours with out saving, never again

[Shogun Gunner]

hmmm.... i was having the CTD before the patch -- now I'm not.

I hope this trends continues.

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by Platypus Rex
now my game crashes with the patch ???? no warning

That's odd, mine gives me a pop-up animation of Catherine's head saying 'we are about to lock up your entire system, please save now!'

The game should autosave every 4 turns (more if you modify the .ini). Look for the autosave subfolder inside your regular save folder to see if there is one more current. Be sure you don't start a new game before this or it will erase the old autosaves...

[Shogun Gunner]

Everyone loves Catherine! I just noticed that she winks at you during diplomacy. Maybe that was patched in?

[Rommel2D]

Supposedly she was quite the little vixen initially and they had to teach her some manners for the final release. Now if you'll excuse me, I've been meaning to see if I have any of the old beta versions left on my system...

[Disk Killer]

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...

Yeah, but your runs are all done in standardized conditions that are as close to your baseline as is machinely possible each and every time.

Now imagine that each of your runs had to be done in different conditions; different temperatures, different environments, different solutions... then you start to get an idea how hard it is to QA something that has to work with the billions of possible combinations of hardware and software out there.

[Boris Godunov]

Does anyone else also have the problem of the wonder movies for the Manhattan Project and Internet not finishing? They both freeze and I don't get the info about what they do. But I can dismiss the movie box and go on with the game. It did this both before and after 1.09.

[powerturks]

thank you sarxis.but i am still dont play civ 4.
soo many bugs.soo many crash.

[QuantumPion]

Originally posted by solo


I have been checking the changes to the base tech costs and have found that:

Rifling has gone from 1400 beakers to 2000
Chemistry, 1400 to 2000

No changes for Steel and Railroad.

Electricity, 2800 to 3000
Flight, 3000 to 3500

For later techs, I've noticed:

Satellites, 3500 to 4000
Composites, 5000 to 5500
Fiber Optics, 5500 to 6000
Fusion, 6000 to 8000
Industrialism, 3000 to 3500
Plastics, 4000 to 4500
Fission, 3500 to 4000
Ecology, 3500 to 4000
Computers, 4500 to 5000
Genetics, 5500 to 7000
Future Technology, 6000 to 8000
Robotics, 5000 to 6000

No changes for Rocketry, Refrigeration, Radio or Mass Media

by that part of the game I am usually making 750-1000+ RP's so that's half a turn to 1 turn at most difference, whoopee.

[seg]

Originally posted by Disk Killer


Yeah, but your runs are all done in standardized conditions that are as close to your baseline as is machinely possible each and every time.

Now imagine that each of your runs had to be done in different conditions; different temperatures, different environments, different solutions... then you start to get an idea how hard it is to QA something that has to work with the billions of possible combinations of hardware and software out there.

Well its not like 2kgames is the only company making games for PC?!? It's still the most unstabel and buggy game I'll ever seen.

[Nikolai]

You haven't seen many games then.

[Ramble]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Mouse and keyboard still freezing on 1.09

Originally posted by Egress1


I'm running the same video card as you and all is good ... per patch was good ... premature 1.08 patch was terrible with the in game movies but 1.09 made it all good again.

I have same video card but 1ghz RAM and 2.4ghz cpu. Were you having problems with video prior to the patches? I was not. Oh and I am running the latest nvidia driver which I downloaded from nvidia.com 2 days ago.

Never had a problem with the movies not running. I downloaded the newest driver from Nvidia yesterday 81.95 I think. I have 1.4 ghz cpu and 768 M Ram. Installed the1.09 patch and the saved game I had going before goes a little beyond where it was crashing before. I am not running any other programs.

Started a game on a huge map. That pesky freeze thing happens again. Worldbuilder on a small map, feeze. Low graphics quality, freeze. Movies turned off, freeze. Windowed mode, freeze. Sent email to tech support at 2k games but get no response. Just freeze, freeze, freeze.

[seg]

Originally posted by Nikolai
You haven't seen many games then.

Too many i think I also have this crazy habit of actually paying for the games I play. The problem is that its impossible to get a refund for a game that does'nt work - Belive me I'll tried 2 times to get my money back for civ4, but then the dvd-box has been open there is nothing to do.
But yes it's true that no game is perfect on release. But in this case we are talking about a game that hardly works at all. I mean games that totally freezes the system. Hmm reminds me of the good old dos/c-64 days.