Anti-freeze tip

[Styxnor]

Have had lots of mid-game freezes so far with CIV4. Maybe not so strange since my pc is on the lower specs.

But today I changed the mouse sampling frequency from 100 to 40, and whoops - no more freezes, at least for the last three hours of play.

Don't know why or how, but it has so far worked for me.

[Shogun Gunner]

where is this "mouse sampling frequency" setting?

I don't recall seeing such a choice in my setup....

[Urban Ranger]

You can also try lowering your colour depth to 16-bit.

[polarnomad]

Only works with a PS2 mouse I believe.

Control Panel>Mouse>Hardware>Properties>Advanced Settings

[Shogun Gunner]

ah....that explains it then. Thank you USB

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
You can also try lowering your colour depth to 16-bit.

A tip which saved my sanity.

[Raion]

And why now do graphics card not include 24- bit depth graphics and only 16-bit or 32-bit graphics?

Especially a Geforce graphics card!

[Urban Ranger]

Alas, lowering the sampling rate on the mouse, or switching to an USB mose, doesn't help me at all.

Thanks for the thought.

[tai4ji2x]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
You can also try lowering your colour depth to 16-bit.

is there a way to set this in-game or via civilizationiv.ini, instead of having to change my native windows desktop bit-depth?

[Axxaer]

Re: Anti-freeze tip

Originally posted by Styxnor
Have had lots of mid-game freezes so far with CIV4. Maybe not so strange since my pc is on the lower specs.

But today I changed the mouse sampling frequency from 100 to 40, and whoops - no more freezes, at least for the last three hours of play.

Don't know why or how, but it has so far worked for me.

Thanks that seems to help somewhat

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by tai4ji2x
is there a way to set this in-game or via civilizationiv.ini, instead of having to change my native windows desktop bit-depth?

Looks like you have to do it on your desktop.

Honestly though there seems little difference. Maybe my eyes aren't good enough

[Nikolai]

Oh, I see a difference. Not big, but big enough.