Civ IV crash frequency?

[Beam]

My fellow spammers, I'm in the final processes of adopting Ubuntu Linux as my main OS with some space left for Windoze mainly for games and some small shit. One of those games definetely will be Civ III cause although runs well in Ubuntu on smaller maps it doesn't on large maps. I'm [ponder] [ponder] about Civ IV cause it performs pretty well on Ubuntu but I feel it crashes to often to my liking. Something like once every 2 hours. Is this normal using the latest patch?

[barbu1977]

I have the feeling crashes are more HW and driver related than anything else. With my nVidia GF4 MX420 and the latest patch I've never seen the game crash. (alt-tab and stuff work fine)

[akots]

With latest patch, Warlords are stable and do not crash at all. However, there is a bad-bad-bad memory leak and after about 5-6 hours of running even if you don't move anything, the game comes to a halt and it takes about 5-10 seconds to move a unit or reassign a specialist in a city. I wish this leak is fixed one day. It is obviously a leak, because if I save, restart Civ and load, the game can be continued just fine without any problems.

It was absent for me in unpatched Warlords but then they crashed occasionally. Not too often but still unpleasant.

[Sir Eric]

My current pc is an Athlon XP+ 2600+. 512MB Kingston DDR333. MSI-K7N2G Mobo. Radeon 9600 256MB
Civ IV and Warlords both using the latest patches.

I've probably only had about 4 crashes on Van Civ IV. IIRC twice it crashed when the movies were being played, and about 2 or 3 times at the end of a turn. (It happenened to me last night)
I haven't had warlords crash on me yet though.

Never had any issues with Civ III crashing at all. And I use to play 360 x 360 maps, load times just went through the roof.

[Socrates]

My experience with Civ4 is limited, but last year, when I played a few games in solo, the game rarely crashed, even when I would play for hours (that's when I was unemployed ;) ). Not sure about the memory leak (I only have Vanilla). I think it should be either your hardware, either Cedega. Let's hope it's the former, otherwise this means I'll have to stick with Windaube as long as I'm playing Civ4.

[Darkness]

I have zero problems with both CIV and Warlords, both on the latest patch. No crashes at all (and my PC barely meets the minimum requirements of the game)...

[Beam]

Seems I need to keep a couple of GB in XP then. [sad]

[Lt. Killer M]

quote:Originally posted by barbu1977

I have the feeling crashes are more HW and driver related than anything else. With my nVidia GF4 MX420 and the latest patch I've never seen the game crash. (alt-tab and stuff work fine)



Yup, it is often a HW problem for me, too! The laptop crashed during CIV IV all the time, the desktop never. Then the laptop received a new mainboard (including the grafix card) and now crashed less often, but more spectacular (required up to 10 reboots before XP came back!).