Galciv 2 random crashes in vista 64.

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I recently installed vista 64 (was on 32bit xp before) and I'm now having some occasional crash problems with it.  Not so bad that I can't play but it's annoying to lose several turns every time it happens.    The only repeatable thing about the crashes is that it can crash if I alt tab.  It also almost always crashes when I quit the game too oddly.

Other than that it can crash randomly.  I'm curious if there is anything specific to vista 64 that I should try?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I, too, was having some strange crashes playing GC2 on vista 64. Using the Event Viewer, I discovered it was a problem with a DirectX 9 file. So I updated DirectX 9 to the latest version (March 2009), and haven't had a problem since.  (Even though you may have DirectX 10, you can update version 9 without affecting it). Hopefully, that will work for you too.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

No dice on directx since I have the latest version of directx9.  I hadn't thought of the event viewer though and it's listing the ATI driver half the time so I'm going to try that.  Kind of doubt it will help though since I know my drivers are at least newer than the last galciv patch.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

That does not rule out the possibility of a bug in the version you are running, however, so updating the video drivers might help.