About Civilization v crashes on startup
#1 Civ 5 is consistently crashing on me when I click the Load Game button on the Single player menu. This crash is different than the loading saved games created before 1.0.0.621 since I am not actually selecting a game. Crashes before that! I never get the dialog to select any a saved game since Civ5 crashes on my before that --- quite literally after clicking the button.New games work. Saving seems to work. Even the Credits and Options work. The crash seems to only happen when I click the Load Game button on the menu. Any ideas or workarounds?Here is what I have tried with crashes each time.Run under Direct11. Crash.Reboot. Run under DirectX11. Crash.Run under DirectX9. Crash.Defrag cache via Steam. Then run under DirectX11. Crash.Use Steam to "Verify Integrity of Game Cache". Says 1 file was not cool and redownloaded. Then I rebooted. Ran under DirectX11. Crash.Use steam to back up all saved games. Then manually delete all games under the below directories, then run under DirectX11. Crash.c:\users\\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\Saves\single\c:\users\\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\Saves\single\auto\c:\users\\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\Saves\single\quick\Using Steam, Delete Local Content. Reboot. Reinstall Civ5. Reboot. Run Civ5 under DirectX11. Crash.Ran Windows Update. Nothing.Prior to yesterday, I had no problems running Civ5 Deluxe (purchased via Steam for the Babylonians).System is Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.NVidia GT 220 1GB RamCore2 Duo 1.862GB RAMCiv5 info:Version 1.0.0.621 (Deluxe purchased via Steam for Babylonians)Steam info:Built Nov 3 2010, at 14:20:13Steam API: v010Steam Package versions: 1411 / 1411Thanks in advance for any
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Posted an elaborate fix to the problem on the 2K board: I'm having the same problem with windows7 64bit and fixed it.In my case,1.Installed windows xp to another disk.2.Open steam app on windows xp from windows 7 installed location .3.Play Civilization V and exit without save.4.Return to windows 75.Open steam app on windows 7 and run Civilization V.I don't know why fixed problem.#easybcd is very usefull for multiboot windows xp and windows 7. I don't know what game version he's running but perhaps someone can try this approach and post the result?Can it be that by installing Windows XP some tweaks were made to W7?BTW: cleaning the cache in W7 does NOT solve this problem. #17 @ShakaRob,Yes, you should definitely update your video drivers if necessary. If that doesn't help, try any or all of the following:1. If running in Fullscreen mode, switch to running in a window, or vice versa.2. In the Video Options menu, force the game to run at a lower resolution, and/or lower other video settings.Also, please post your DxDiag file if updating video driver doesn't help.Thanks! #18 For reasons I do not understand, Civ5 tonight now appears to work fine.I made no changes since the re-install, reboot and re-launch under DirectX11 (and ultimately crash) last night.Weird. 2 days ago worked. Yesterday 25+ crashes (even after reboots!). Today everything is duckies and bunnies. Hopefully tomorrow things continue to be dine.Thanks to everyone who chimed in with suggestions. #19 No luck for me yet, even after installing
