Help - Crashes in game, then when loading game again - Vista

[stuartb]

Hello all, I hope you can help me!!

I have been playing the longest game time & huge map, for weeks. It is just getting good, and now the game crashes randomly.

Sometimes it happens when I move air units around, but now it's happening around 1914 July, every time I try to get past this date it will just crash.

Then what is weird is I can't load the same game up previously, I have to revert BACK to Jan... then redo the same moves again, and again, and again!

I have

P4 2.8
2GIG Ram
9800XT 256mb
Vista Business

I hope you can help as this is driving me crazy, I can't play CIV4 again, as this really disappointed me, with all the time I spent getting to the position I am in!

Regards,

Stuart

[Willem]

You're kind of pushing it playing Huge maps on a 9800. I can't be positive, but that might be your problem. Try it on Large for awhile and see if you can get past that point. If so, then you probably need to upgrade your video card.

[stuartb]

Never had any problems before, the card is DX9, Shader 2.

It is a 9800XT, not the normal 9800. Still runs most games now. I can't see why Civ would have a problem with it.

In fact, in previous games, it's never been a problem, only on Vista/BTS.

[Kuciwalker]

Vista drivers suck.

[stuartb]

...

I was kind of hoping for some more constructive comments...

Clearly this is nothing to do with the graphics card.

I am crashing at certain points when XML/Conf files are read, such as when setting up players the game crashes.

Anyone else have any ideas?

[bikubaku]

I have similar problem.
When I end turn the game simply crashes. Probably a bug. Unfortunately I cant attach save game because its 550 kb big.

I am running it on winxp.

[stuartb]

Yea my save is 1.4mb - this is really bugging me and won't be playing the game until I get it fixed, no point, if it keeps crashing.

[Palpster]

I've had this in one of my games too....was on a large map (maybe standard, definitely not huge)....doing rather well, but 3 turns after my latest save game always crashes. No clue what's causing it.