My computer just decides to kick me back to the desktop? It leaves the game running, but I have to click on it in the taskbar to get it to come back up--which it takes anywhere between 5 and 10 minutes to do.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

11/26/2005 6:04:11 PM

eh its buggy as hell

like, horribly buggy

read some forums, a lot of people gave it severely negative views for it being so buggy

11/26/2005 6:05:59 PM

It's your birthday, wtf are you doing playing a computer game?

(kidding )

[Edited on November 26, 2005 at 6:08 PM. Reason : on a side note, us Mac ppl are stuck w/ Civ III ]

11/26/2005 6:08:10 PM

Cuz I got the game for my birthday.

The only thing buggy about it is that it kicks me to the desktop. Everything else works fine, albeit slowly even though my comp meets the recommended system reqs.

11/26/2005 6:09:41 PM

Do you have anything else running at the same time that is refreshing in the background or something?

11/26/2005 7:24:44 PM

a CIV GAME... BUGGY?


lol of course man they've all been buggy. even alpha centauri (HOLY FUCK IT WAS BUGGY) and its expansions



save often. like every turn once you get past 100 turns

11/26/2005 8:02:54 PM

I just played civ 4 for the first time. its just another sid meiers clone. they are all the same.

11/26/2005 8:03:46 PM

This one is light years different.

BTW did you run the patch? The patch addressed this issue of a glitch causing it to go to desktop. Try and hit that up.

11/26/2005 8:28:14 PM

I didn't think the patch was out yet?

Quote :

"Do you have anything else running at the same time that is refreshing in the background or something?"

I tried closing everything in the bg, but that didn't help. I noticed that NortonAV isn't disabled though.

11/28/2005 9:40:32 PM

k, first tell us what your computer stats are. Processor speed, Ram and vid card?

If ya don't know, go to Start--> Run-->

type "dxdiag" click yes if a pop up thing appears asking you to update some info.

Then look at "Processor" and "Memory" and tell us what that says. Then click the tab at the top marked display and tell us what it says in the first box marked "device".

The reason I want to know this is if you are at the bare minimum for requirements then if you're running other things at the same time it could cause issues.

11/28/2005 10:34:09 PM

oops, wrong thread

[Edited on November 29, 2005 at 8:05 AM. Reason : .]

11/29/2005 8:04:55 AM

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.8GHz
Memory: 512MB RAM
Device: NVidia GeForce FX 5200 (Approx. Total Memory: 128.0 MB)

11/30/2005 12:22:07 AM

Any ideas?

11/30/2005 3:01:59 PM

I haven't played the game in over a week or so, but did you try the update option given in one of the menus in the game? I didn't realize there was a patch yet.

There isn't really anything you can do until they fix it, its a problem with the software itself, not your machine.

Play smaller worlds with less AI opp. until they fix things properly.

11/30/2005 3:03:43 PM

I patched it, but the problem persists.

11/30/2005 9:16:07 PM

New detail. This has happened a couple times now, so you might find it noteworthy:

When I close the game for getting all slow and buggy (usually accompanied by a serious decrease in graphic quality), there's a little triangle with a ! in it down in the systray by the clock that says Virtual Memory Minimum too Low...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but does that mean that I need more RAM? I'm thinking a new video card might be in order, too.

If you guys have suggestions for either, I'm all ears.

12/1/2005 9:15:59 PM

i downloaded teh game...youd think mounting it virtually would cause problems...ha ive never had a single crash

12/1/2005 9:19:32 PM

is it open source yet like open office?

12/1/2005 9:25:11 PM

Quote :

"is it open source yet like open office?"

LOL!

12/2/2005 9:08:01 AM

You may want to check how much hard disk space you have available. You might not have enough to allow the operating system to cope with this resource hog of a game. I'd say a gig is more than sufficient.

12/2/2005 9:59:07 AM

I've got a ton of extra hard drive space.

12/3/2005 1:54:06 AM

Ok, so after a reformat and reinstallation of XP, I've determined that the main source of what causes the game to crash back to the desktop is this mystery program that opens and closes itself. I only see it in the status bar and it closes itself before I get a chance to identify it.

Is there any way to find out what this program is?

12/6/2005 10:52:23 AM

what the in the blue hell are you talking about? man...if youve reformatted ect...then youve got must have a driver/hardware problem

12/6/2005 12:12:01 PM

After patching up to 1.09 I noticed it is a little quicker to load, and return from switching to my desktop, and the turns cycle a little faster.

I'm running a 3000+ Venice, 1 gig dual channel, and a pathetic 6200 TC and don't really have many troubles. If I get some time I'll try the new patch on a 6 AI huge map (where I had my troubles before) and see how stable it is now.

12/6/2005 12:14:17 PM

The program that opens and closes itself wasn't there immediately after the wipe and reinstall. It has to be from one of the apps that I installed immediately afterwards. That narrows it down to the following:

- Microsoft Office with Frontpage
- AIM Triton
- FinePix Viewer (From my Digital Camera)
- FujiFilm Raw File Converter (Same)
- Pixela Image Mixer (Same)
- HP Software for my printer
- Nero Burning ROM Software
- Quicktime
- Norton Antivirus Corporate
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 7

12/6/2005 2:56:34 PM

AIM is the devil

12/6/2005 10:14:26 PM

eh, my civ4 aint runnin super great on my laptop, but theb again I have an X300 as the video card, so i dunno what to expect. over th break i'll prolly set it up on my desktop, which has an X850 and see how it runs

12/7/2005 2:10:04 PM