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JBeckman
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 Posted: Wed, 21st Dec 2011 21:15 Post subject: |
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| WhiteBarbarian wrote: | | crossmr wrote: | | I also have a GTX 460. I run it on 10 and 11. I was getting frequent crashes as well. Since I set the leader screens to low, and everything else to high, no crashes. |
GTX 460 here too and with Leaders screens at Medium I am having black textures glitches, pics at spoiler below.
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At Medium settings, after a leader screens were shown for about 20+ times game crashes and Windows info bubble appears stating nvidia driver has crashed too. After that I am starting to experience glitches in 3D mode - flickering textures, misaligned geometry and in 2D mode - mouse cursor trailing, moving window leaves traces of it. I need to shutdown my machine to reset the GPU, restart doesn't help.
With Leaders screen set at High, same black texture glitches as with Medium setting, but in addition leaders skin turns into grayscale mode after a leader screens were shown 1-3 times, and game and nvidia driver crashes after just a few more such screens. Again only shutdown helps to reset the GPU.
So, I keep Leaders screen at Low setting. And actually it doesn't differ that much from Medium setting, the only exception so far is the Isabela screen, at Low setting background is severely blurred.
Isabela low setting screen
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Pachacuti low setting screen
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Surprising that there is such a huge difference, screens share the same concept - flowing background.
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| WhiteBarbarian wrote: | I was able to play with Leaders screen at high with initial release. Since that time I have installed Windows updates, latest nvidia drivers and game updates. Somewhere something got broken along the way, and the only way to play now is with Leaders screen at low.
Just tried that I wanted to try for quite some time. I underclocked my GTX 460 1GB to minimum settings possible via msi afterburner to Core Clock: 405 Mhz; Shader Clock: 810 Mhz; Memory Clock: 900 Mhz. In civ 5 video options I disabled AA, set everything to Off / Low settings and Leaders screen to Medium - same black textures glitches at leaders screen. Even tried running game in window mode to no avail.
After reseting GPU to defaults clocks, also tried running game for the first time in DX 9 mode, set everything to maximum possible settings for DX 9 - no black textures glitches at leaders screen 
But in DX 9 there is no AA, and without it game looks awful  |
290.36 Beta Drivers seems fixed my problem  |
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2011 08:27 Post subject: |
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I think DX 9 and 10 are kind of like ASP 2 and 3.5 where it's just shared libraries and then 11 is separate.
The rest of that...I have a feeling you're going to have to try on your own. It's worth adding to a steam account if you find it worth buying since you can download it whenever. It's one of those games you wind up wanting to play once a year or so, and easier to download from steam where you're getting all of the updates at once instead of downloading the game then the Update 3254255424 which still doesn't fix all the issues...etc..
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2011 09:13 Post subject: |
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Well.. I'm pretty sure that no matter where I buy it I'd have to establish a Steam account anyway. Direct2Drive mentions a ''3rd party'' install and GamersGate mentions nothing like that.. but I'm curious if one could even play single player offline anyway (i.e. without Steam). I mean.. obviously the game HAS been cracked to do just that (my current install does) but a ''legit'' one is another story (kind of the reason I caved in and bought Might & Magic Heroes VI).
Looking back in the thread and researching elsewhere.. here's what I think I might be able to do:
1. Install retail game
2. Update to latest on Steam.
3a. Purchase last 2 DLCs (Korean & Ancient Wonders) and install
or..
3b. Install an uncracked patch with ALL DLCs (I have one)
and finally.. since the latest patch is uncracked (the last 2 actually)..
4. Play the game using Greenluma or some Steam emulator
Because my guess is that as soon as I reconnect to real Steam.. they're gonna' notice that I have DLC that wasn't purchased from them and react.. but I could be wrong (What if one purchased the DLC from somewhere else? Seems like a ''legit'' thing to do or is possible.).
I noticed that Jaason asked basically the same thing (with confirmation it works) a couple of pages back on 93.. but no one answered him. peter980 says that one could do it.. but would have to use a cracked exe.. but there hasn't been one since v.343 so #4 seems the only way to have a retail copy with downloaded DLC AND the latest update.
Thanks for your reply though. I think I'm gonna' take on this challenge myself and will report back soon.. hopefully.
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2011 10:08 Post subject: |
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| emdeec wrote: | | I'm thinking of buying the base game off of GamersGate right now as it's only $10.18. I've looked everywhere and it's even cheaper than Amazon at $14.99. |
Why not wait a few days and see for what price it goes on daily sale on Steam? It already has a -50% discount so chances are high it will be 7.5$ (with a -75% discount) when it becomes a daily deal.
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2011 10:11 Post subject: |
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How do you know it's going to be a daily deal? Is there a calendar somewhere?
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2011 12:28 Post subject: |
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| emdeec wrote: | | How do you know it's going to be a daily deal? Is there a calendar somewhere? |
Valve never discloses upcoming sales info, but Civilization V is quite a big title and also a Steamworks game so I am pretty sure it will be a daily deal during this winter sale. And after watching Steam store for the past year on a daily basis I'd say Civ V discount will be 75% since this game already was on sale several times this year, last time at the 75% discount too (at the higher base price point though) - so when it goes daily during this winter sale I'd expect at least a 75% discount.
As for myself, I will probaly be passing on this game this sale, due to the overpriced DLCs 6 of which (the ones I am interested in) are going to cost more than the game itself.
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2011 14:02 Post subject: |
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OK.. thanks for the info. Did you notice that all the DLC is 50% off right now?
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2011 14:23 Post subject: |
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Civ 5 gets a daily deal all the year, it's bound to happen again now.
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2011 15:32 Post subject: |
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| emdeec wrote: | | Did you notice that all the DLC is 50% off right now? |
Yes, of course. But still all the discounted DLCs cost more than the discounted game.
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Dec 2011 01:49 Post subject: |
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I broke down and bought the base game at GG for $10 (along with the Korean & AW DLC). Tried my method posted above and can safely say it doesn't work. I tried it with JB's files and two other ''all-inclusive'' DLC packs and the extra DLC doesn't even show up.. but unlike using them with some former ''cracked'' exe.. at least the game didn't crash.
Steam insisted on patching the game (Did I mention I HATE Steam?) before I even could start it so there's no chance of ''holding back'' the legit install and using an older cracked version. Guess I'll look for the rest of the DLC at a bargain, and just go entirely retail.
Later last night after buying the base game at GamersGate for $10.18.. I noticed that Amazon (for anyone interested) had lowered the price for the GoTY edition down to $10.99... grrrrr! That's not a bad deal for the entire game and the DLC. Then one can grab the Korean & Ancient Wonders bundled.. at Gamers gate right now for $2.55. Making the entire thing just $13.54!
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Pey
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Dec 2011 05:08 Post subject: |
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I bought the goty edition at yuplay.ru for 11 bucks
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Dec 2011 15:25 Post subject: |
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You can buy it on Amazon.com as well, for 10$ or something, GOTY edition.
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Dec 2011 18:06 Post subject: |
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I ain't tried this game in months like 8 months or so.
Have the patches improved things any better?
Balance and performance mainly?
Ryzen 5 3600 cpu@3.60 Mhz.
hyper x 32 gb ddr 4 memory.
Msi Carbon gaming pro ac motherboard.
Evga 600 psu.
Msi Armour rx 8 gb 5700 Graphic card.
Ps4 Standard 500gb.
Lg 4k 42 inch tv.
Oculus Quest 2.
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Dec 2011 18:13 Post subject: |
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Added hotset option. All the bugs I had at release are still here. Performance /might/ be slightly better. Loading times are much longer (awful actually).
Probably depends on your PC though.
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Dec 2011 19:48 Post subject: |
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I don't have a state-of-the-art PC (E8500), I never had problems with excessive loading times or performance (unless a patch broke something in the last four months).
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Dec 2011 09:40 Post subject: |
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I finally gave in and bought the whole damn thing (including ALL the DLC) off of GG (came to about $20). I'm just a bit miffed that I could have gotten the GotY edition off of Amazon (for $10.99 but that edition has been pulled by them anyway now) and saved about $7 overall.
I've been checking with Steam store but nothing yet. Probably will sell the entire thing for about $5 in a few days.. with my luck.
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| Posted: Sat, 31st Dec 2011 17:17 Post subject: |
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I guess my main question is how much of a difference is there between the pirated version? Pirated version tends to take a solid 5 minutes just to start for some reason. And i'm wondering if some of the turn loading times are improved.
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| Posted: Sat, 31st Dec 2011 22:36 Post subject: |
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What's bloated about Steam? Tried offline mode?
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| Posted: Sat, 31st Dec 2011 22:40 Post subject: |
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That everything goes through steam launcher, that updates are always forced and can never be reverted, and bunch of other small things... (nothing major, but it adds up)
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| Posted: Sat, 31st Dec 2011 22:53 Post subject: |
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That all can be fixed by using offline mode.
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| Posted: Sun, 1st Jan 2012 12:48 Post subject: |
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| peter980 wrote: | | That everything goes through steam launcher, that updates are always forced and can never be reverted, and bunch of other small things... (nothing major, but it adds up) |
Also you can disable automatic updating.
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| Posted: Mon, 2nd Jan 2012 05:07 Post subject: |
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NFOhump should maintain a "Not yet cracked" list as incentive for all the crackers out there.
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prudislav
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| Posted: Tue, 10th Jan 2012 00:38 Post subject: |
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| Code: | | 3DMGAME-CIV5_Game Of The Year_1.0.1.511_Update_Crack-3DM |
Does anyone have all files(with Korean and Wonders DLC) from version 1.0.1.348) ?????
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