Great Game, but still crashes after everyone has about 5-10 cities. (you need to reboot to fix)

EDIT: I would really like this built for xbox one.

The game seems to have an extremely inefficient way of computing, it always crashes during processing other teams turns. I’ve had this game since the year it came out and its been crashing since the beginning, its appalling that they still havent fixed these problems or found alternative solutions to the problem..

Maybe if they used internet processing to help offload some of the heavy lifting this game needs they could do it, but its still a broken game. The good reviews here maybe true, but they probably are reviewing the game before meeting a lot of the problems this game has, or they have the latest and greatest hardware.

They game play is unlike any civ game youve played before. Be ready for change. If youre new to Civ it is a great game to learn, my brother learned Civ 5 without a problem with no previous experience in strategy games believe it or not. He plays on a new iMac, so it works fine for him. The game has a lot more depth than any of the previous games, but its also easier to understand. The game isn’t bad, except for crashes. It is different though, so if you can’t deal with change in the gameplay from previous generations, don’t buy it until you can open your mind to new concepts.

Bottom line:

If you have a very new system with lots of power, this game is maybe worth a try. Maybe see if you can find source online to compare your computer with this game to make sure it works, cause the minimum reqs will still freeze on you. If you don’t have the latest and greatest computer and know it sometimes struggles with other games, don’t even bother with this one. It’ll be a waste of your money, cause youll play it once, and once it fails you won’t really want to pick it up again until you have a computer to actually play it which (could be) years before you will actually be able to play this game all the way through.

Another solution is to just set it to autosave every turn. The game plays off a seed every turn so all the results (if you do the same thing) will come to the same thing even if the game crashed. The seed is in the last save you have so you can pick up on the turn you left off at the crash, maybe play a few more turns before it crashes again. It is A LOT OF WORK and probably not going to keep up with it for much longer.

I wish they’d atleast make it crash to the desktop so I wouldnt have to force reboot everytime it happens. Can’t be good for my computer.

Cheers.

RinkRat22 - 360 live about Civilization® V