Civilization V always crashes on big games

Question

Since bigger is better, I usually want to play on Huge worlds with max number of Civs and City States. After I begin conquering the world and my empire spans about 50 cities, the game begins to crash. The crash usually occurs when I hit "Next turn", but it has also happened when giving unit orders etc.

The crash doesn't happen if I play on "strategic view" where the graphics are much simpler.

I have tried re-installing the game and updated graphics drivers. Otherwise, my computer is powerful enough to play Battlefield 3 and Skyrim on max settings.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Answer 1

i think there might be a problem with your version of the game, or your actual computer. my computer was not able to handle civilization V even though i updated my graphics card to latest of its time. It still didn't work even though i could play skyrim on max settings. I changed my actual computer, and it works perfectly.

Answer 2

It's possible that your computer is using the graphics card's processing power to help run calculations for the actual game -- unit movement AI, updating production in cities, etc. Graphics processors are downright better for processing some things than are computer processors, and for complex things like games it can be useful to use both the computer processor and the graphics processor to run the game.

Given that your crashes occur when data is being processed and only in the graphically intensive default mode, your graphics card may simply not be up to the task. If you don't want to play in strategic mode, you can try turning your graphics options all the way down.