So far not finished a game, due to crashes

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Yet, another game has crashed irrecoverably. I'd like to play, but cannot finish a game. If I reload the last save, it is corrupted and won't play - crashed to desktop.

Anyone else with this problem?

I do have a save game I can send in, if it helps.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
The game is very stable normally, so your crashes to desktop are strange. First suggestion would be to reinstall from the CD into a new clean directory. Something may have been corrupt from the initial install. You could try sending your saved game to stardock. Just zip the game folder and the .sav file.

Paul.

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I have this problem too! It is really frustrating.

The game crashed about every 20 minutes while I was trying to play yesterday. Sometimes to the desktop, sometimes rebooting. Some of my save games are also corrupt, although they seem to be the autosave ones. I asked to restore my last civ and it rebooted, then I loaded a game by selecting it myself and it worked better. I get other load corruptions too... sometimes the interface comes up and it is mostly blank, then crashs as soon as I click something. I have DirectX 9.0 from MS site and the latest NVidia drivers from NVidia.

I have just updated to 1.0.1A to see if this helps.


~SDC~
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I think it's sound related. For now, turn off the music and sound effects and see if that helps.

We should have a fix for this later today. SOund cards with only 4 playback buffers (like the SB Live) has a problem with our sound system since we tend to push a lot of sound channels.

~SDC~
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I've had this CTD trouble too. Two days ago the game crashed to the desktop 5 or 6 times while playing. Yesterday I played for 2 or 3 hours and not one crash.

I have an nVidia motherboard with the onboard sound.