Civilization 4 keeps crashing?

have recently purchased and installed Civ IV Complete.



I have only played one game of Civ IV (Not yet able to finish it) but I find that it keeps crashing, so that even with the "auto save" every 4 turns, I have to try to save after every turn so as not to have to go back and do stuff again. I have not yet tried Warlords or BTS, which came with the pack, although they are installed. I have actually now reached a stage where it crashes every turn. It says "Waiting for other civilizations", but there is no movement on the screen, and then after about 20 seconds the screen goes black and the computer reboots.



I had Myst 3 Exile and the Sims 2 on my computer (Both now removed) and they played fine - no problems.



I have also tried disabeling my anti virus program, and shutting down all unnecessary applications running on the machine, with no change.



Any help would be greatly appreciatedCivilization 4 keeps crashing?
I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM. SO FREAKING ANNOYING. the short of it is, Civ 4 is a hugh memory hog. both RAM and Video. the new patches help but not enough if you have a low grade video card and RAM. i "had" a fx5200 and 1gb RAM. and i ran into this problem a lot(even w/ low settings)



Now i have totally upgrading to a new comp (Intel Core2 duo 3ghz, 2gb RAM, Nvidia 8600gt 1gb.) and it runs perfectly on all high settings with out a hick-up!!!



My recomendation would be to upgrade your video card to the 8 series for nvidia. they are cheap and the newest line of video cards out. Make sure the card you buy has 512mb of memory. this should help. also .... install the other expansions, they have the newest patches on them(except for bts).Civilization 4 keeps crashing?
Civ IV is a system hungry beast. As well as downloading the patch suggested by Bigguy check your RAM and graphics card and if need be upgrade.



You will almost definitely have to do that to play Beyond the Sword: the minimum graphics card it plays on is Nvidia GeForce 6200. Also for BtS you will probably need an unofficial patch available from Civilisation Fanatics Forum, which can be accessed through the official Civ4 site.Civilization 4 keeps crashing?
http://www.firaxis.com/games/downloads.p鈥?/a>



go here and scroll down to your game and download the patch that will stop the crashes



you need the v1.74 patch



oh and save that link as its got the other expansion packs patches as well
That's just civilisation 4 the game, the simulation.



Much more worrying is that CIVILISATION keeps crashing (I mean the real thing).