Sid Meier's Civilization IV v1.09 Patch

[RainOfTerror]

Sid Meier's Civilization IV expands on the beloved gameplay of its predecessors with countless new gameplay changes and improvements, including religion, great people and for the first time in the Civilization series, a full 3D engine.

Firaxis released a new (the v1.08 was revoked immediately) patch for Sid Meier's Civilization IV bringing your retail game to v1.09 and addresses some game bugs & crashes, multiplayer issues, better load times, general optimizations and various other game tweaks.

You can get the Civ IV v1.09 patch (http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=30115) (23mb) over at WorthPlaying.

[keeks]

Changelog:

Changes:

- increased cost of Apollo Program...
- increased SS parts cost...
- Animal Husbandry reveals Horses
- tweaked Rifling, Chemistry, Steel, and Railroad tech costs...
- increased late-game tech costs...
- can now add two specialists in size 1 city with Mercantilism...
- final score is now modified by difficulty level...
- Speed up load times
- Global performance enhancements

Added:

- Include WB map size in the description field
- Save login name
- Added password encryption
- Added regenerate Map Button to World builder Map Mode...
- checkbox for using low resolution textures
- more logging for init failure
- minspec / video memory checking
- Added ability to change to and from fullscreen while in-game
- holding "shift" during startup will clean out the cache
- improved bink playback, added ini options

Fixes:

- ATI issue Failed to Init Renderer Fixed
- Multiplayer Lobby list jump problem and lobby crash fixed
- fixed war weariness calculation bug...
- units maintain their name when upgraded
- fixed Gold-for-Gold diplo exploit...
- fixed no research choice overflow exploit...
- Fix for voice initialization crash
- Fix addressing takeover AI and retirement OOS.
- Fixed issue with diplomacy text being always used in its first form in the translator.
- Popups, screens, and diplomacy properly cleared when exiting from main menu.
- Games protected by admin passwords (only) cannot be loaded if the version is different from the one that created the save
- Fixed bug where player could not offer any deal to other human in PBEM/Hotseat
- Sorting by date on domestic advisor now works.
- fixed bug where settlers could not move if the strategy layer was selected
- fixed Ironworks...
- fixed AI units not obeying open borders rules on declaration of war...
- fixed bug that prevent placing of units in world-builder
- fixed bug that prevented gifting of units to a human player
- stack attack infinite loop fixed
- Civic screen update fix (wasn’t showing the right maintenance and anarchy values)
- ctrl-g crash fix, optimized city bar art
- fixed right-click menu crash
- Intro movie crashing problems

Source: www.civfanatics.com

[Cyotik]

This game really needed a patch, a number of bad crash bugs, some of which seem not to be fixed...

[MrMeatshake]

i haven't seen the crashes, but my good friend from these boards has, regularly... have they not all been fixed, then!? i expect more from mr. meier.

EDIT: this game is great, though. i love that the AI is actually challenging. well, apart from when they attack my longbowmen with infantry. grrr! :rolleyes:

[TRiLoGY]

i haven't seen the crashes, but my good friend from these boards has, regularly... have they not all been fixed, then!? i expect more from mr. meier.

EDIT: this game is great, though. i love that the AI is actually challenging. well, apart from when they attack my longbowmen with infantry. grrr! :rolleyes:

You would be refering to me then ;)

Yeah, I often get a full lock-up that requires a reboot when playing CIV 4, Hopefully this patch might fix my problem. It is a fantastic game though... Very Addictive :D

[Stormwatcher]

Never had a crash, but this (otherwise excellent) game really needed a patch. Lots of weird slowdonws and stuttering movies, not to mention necessary gameplay glitches (like the fact that the difficulty level didn't alter your score...). Good thing they released a patch.

[Nerv]

The only real problem I've seen is the loading times (which are still better than bf2) the very occasional broken animation and the wonder videos stuttering all over the place, but this is still a good thing.
I hear some people are getting crashes every half and hour etc, that must be horrible, I can't imagine playing this for less than half an hour.

[Citizen Philip]

This patch delivers, my stuttering is gone.

[Taco]

Nice, here's hoping you actually have time to use late game techs,

[Nesta]

Aye, no crashes here, but towards the endgame, it waaas soooo sloooow. I think it just had some mem leak issues as well from what I was reading on the forum. Great news on this patch.

[Cyotik]

It seems to have fixed every bug but one which randomly reboots my computer. Sometimes it happens after a couple minutes and sometimes I can play for hours with no problem. I've just learned to save often.

[Abash Alarmist]

That sounds like a heating issue on your computer...

[omnithrope]

This patch delivers, my stuttering is gone.

That's good to hear!

[Ravenlock]

More patching will be needed judging from the response on the CivFanatics forums and some bugs one of my friends from work has run into...

but this is definitely a step in the right direction. Great game. :D

[Cyotik]

Doubt it, my computer is well cooled and none of my temperature monitors are showing anything above about 38C when I play.