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I have no issues with anyother software or game, i will check for errors when i get home.
Interesting opinion though, can you link to something that shows Win10 performance degrading over time?
This changed with Windows Vista and even moreso with Windows 10, where updates are forced, and NTFS does not manage heavily used disks very well. Rather than wait until the system crashes, the WMI performance counters work to correct minor problems in the background. Which is why rarely some users will see the system claim "your disk is dirty" and begin repairs all on its own.
However, because the new mantra is to avoid crashes at all cost, any issues which can't be automatically fixed by dumping cache files or reorganizing the MFT will go unchecked. This slows down the system - but so long as you don't actually use that broken piece of software, you'll never notice it.
Windows 8 included UWP, which was a step backward in app development in the name of cross-compatibility. It's not very fault tolerant and tends to break easily. Thankfully, Microsoft knew this and built the platform to completely rebuild itself when a fault is detected. That is what happens in the background when your app vanishes for a second and then reappears with all your work. It's a kind of sandboxing meant to fix issues before they bother the user.
Windows 10 included a new DWM which interacts poorly with UWP to the extent that you can corrupt the OS just by doing certian actions on the desktop.
Anyway, you haven't actually checked for the issue I mentioned, right?
What your asserting regarding windows across versions is pretty fascinating. What kind of symptoms are evident to the user in these cases, do you agree with the direction MS has gone with each new version, or is it more pro/con.
Also you mentioned forcing updates, are you talking about WIN update?
Very curious about OS corruption from simple desktop interactions, that would be a very bad flaw.
Anyway, if you don't have any of the above I'd have to check more throughly, but I usually get paid for that, and this is the internet. Lol. If so, you have a more unique problem than I'm used to seeing. Which does occasionally happen.
The game's modding library is standard across platforms, and it's fairly simple compared to modern versions. There's nothing about the 1080 which cannot handle Civ IV's mod platform or animations from the mod. You could of course try doing a Steam rebuild of the game's files and re-downloading the mod. But it's surely not your hardware.
My opinion? Bill Gates stepped down from Microsoft, and the company is now run by a former marketing executive. I don't mind the direction of Windows prior to Windows 10 - it became more stable and safe in Vista and more modular in 8.
The problem is this marketing guy has full control over Windows 10. His priority has been to change the name of the UWP platform five times. How about fixing the bugs in said platform? Newp. I suspect they're cooking up a sixth name for UWP, instead. It's about all he can do.
Never mind UWP - they didn't bother to patch the NSA exploit for 16 months until someone, um, exploited it. Then they scrambled to put out a patch which screwed up people's work computers. I had a lot of jobs that week. Not removing a virus but fixing the many computers the patch broke.
Truly, why do you think they decided not to release another OS after Windows 10? It isn't a marketing game like Apple's OSX. It's because that dunce can't make a new one.
So yeah, I consider Windows 10 a liability for work, and unreliable for games.
I moved the game to my SSD, and somehow it feels like it takes longer to load than it did on my HDD.
In administrative events, for the trimeframe of my last play session, there's not anything related to Civ4, no spam of any kind, just 3 or 4 completely unrelated specific things in there.
Under logs the only ESENT I see is 916
I actually did not know about this bug. Unfortunately, it is a completely different windows 10 error which I do not yet know how to fix manually. Thus my only advice is to run a system refresh.
A quick google search shows people complaining that this is related to crashes and framerate problems with games. Other posts suggest it's caused by a lock-up in the hardware compatibility layer. It is definitely caused by the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (as with so many other bugs.) As usual, the Microsoft MVPs are utterly unhelpful: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance/can-microsoft-solve-this-annoying-problem/54ac1381-d55d-4b6c-a196-16e770bceddd
For now please just try the system refresh and see if that fixes it. It is related to system-wide Windows 10 corruption so please do not think it is just a game problem you can ignore. Here are the instructions: https://www.onmsft.com/news/windows-10-reset-refresh-windows-10-installation-better-performance
DO NOT click "remove everything" unless you have backed up all your files. If I get any more info I will update you all.
Edit: I forgot to mention; Civ IV has a software bug where it does not handle system input correctly. It is unpatched even in the latest version but most users will never notice it unless they go searching system logs. It is likely this problem is interacting with the ESENT bug(s) which is why the problem is so severe while playing Civ even if you have no symptoms in regular Windows.
For anyone wondering, ESENT is a core component of how Windows services store data. It's been bugged ever since Vista and Microsoft has not bothered to fix it. Windows 10 uses and modifies ESENT much more agressively than earlier versions of Windows hence why the problem is so prevelant in Win 10. ESENT 916 appears to be a brand new bug in already buggy code.