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I'm having some issues...need some help.

Soon, soon, my precious... soon it will be mine...

I wouldn't get too excited yet. It's one hell of a buggy game. I keep crashing to desktop without warning all the friggin' time. It's really annoying.

Apparently there are fan written patches that help, but so far the only "official" firaxis patch doesn't fix the issues I (and MANY others) are having.

Grrr...I love the game, but crashing every 30 minutes or so is very, very frustrating.

Where the Christmas rush is concerned, the marketers always beat out the programmers in the release date vs. remaining bugs battle.... I'm sure it'll all be ironed out soon.

I expect to be getting it for Christmas.

They've released two patches already and the dang thing still continues to "CTD".

I have been playing it since it came out with no issues. Even without the patches, the game was running fine.

I read somewhere that it is unstable on the latest GeForce graphics cards. I use an old Geforce 5200 and it works great.

Before the patches it was nearly unplayable. Soooooo freakin' slow, and would often just freeze up.

Since getting the game, I've upgraded to 1GB of Kingston HyperX RAM, and got a new video card (Radeon 9600Pro, with 256Mb of memory) I've got far more than the recommended specs for the game.

With all that, upgraded RAM, upgraded vidya card, and the latest patch, still crap.

Wasn't it your machine that did so well in the avoid the blocks by moving the little dot around game because of your slow computer Spiff? Is this a different machine you are playing Civ from?

What are the specs for the game?

That's very funny. That block game was impossibly difficult. Maybe Spiff needs a new computer for Christmas.