My game keeps crashing

[Shampagen]

About 30 min to an hour in game, my game starts to "blink" (the screen goes black for half a second) and then it freezes for a couple seconds, and returns me to the desktop saying that "this game is blocked from using graphics devices." It still says it's open, but when I click on the bottom of my screen where the icon is it just doesn't reopen. When I close out of the game again the same problem occurs ,but it still runs fine for like 30 minutes. This is happening whenever I play any version of the game except for Colonization ,but I personally find that Colonization isn't worth my time. Plz help.

EDIT: It can actually happen within seconds of me getting into the main menu. Well ♥♥♥♥.

[LasagnaMan12]

It was difficult to find a fix to the problem, and this process should fix it
Just instead right click the desired Civ game, click properties, click local files, browse files, a file browser will pop, scroll down until you find the .exe for the game & do the process in the video :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN-C96rXrvM

[LasagnaMan12]

If this doesn't work i'll try & find a different video

[CHE]

Originally posted by RooTand2T / Shampagen:

About 30 min to an hour in game, my game starts to "blink" (the screen goes black for half a second) and then it freezes for a couple seconds, and returns me to the desktop saying that "this game is blocked from using graphics devices." It still says it's open, but when I click on the bottom of my screen where the icon is it just doesn't reopen. When I close out of the game again the same problem occurs ,but it still runs fine for like 30 minutes. This is happening whenever I play any version of the game except for Colonization ,but I personally find that Colonization isn't worth my time. Plz help.

EDIT: It can actually happen within seconds of me getting into the main menu. Well ♥♥♥♥.

Sorry to hear that.... I suggest you try Steam Support (click "Help" in the top lefthand area of this Steam page, and then when the menu opens, click on "Steam Support").

[McLovin]

I'm having the same problem tonight. Was working fine a week ago, now it starts beeping and crashes when I am in Civ 4. Can't tell if the problem is Civ or Steam in General. : (

[LasagnaMan12]

Originally posted by McLovin:

I'm having the same problem tonight. Was working fine a week ago, now it starts beeping and crashes when I am in Civ 4. Can't tell if the problem is Civ or Steam in General. : (

You can try the process i suggested :)

[Annimast919]

In windows 10 I cannot do the recommended fix. I will click on properties and there is no local file folder. I installed warlords hopefully this will work.

[Ghetsis]

are you using the disk version?