Game freezes after NeoEE patch
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 5:37 pm
Last night I booted up an old install of EE for the first time in months and played a round of single player with no issues. I then logged in to the NeoEE lobby to see how the community was doing but I got a "Version mismatch" error when trying to join someones game. I closed my game, downloaded the newest NeoEE patch and installed it. I went back online and after joining a game, my game froze about 15 seconds into the match (put some cits on gold, opened the civ builder then couldn't do anything else). I could still hear the audio going and the game didn't crash to my desktop, but I couldn't move my mouse or see any movement on the screen.
Today I decided to try again, got into a 4v4 mid sh and was super excited to play... 15 seconds in the game froze and I had to force quit the game.
I then deleted my EE folder, rebooted my computer and downloaded EE again off my Google Drive (I uploaded a copy that I installed on my computer years ago, which doesn't have the NeoEE patch, but has the 2 official Sierra patches). This has worked hundreds of times in the past for neo-ee and the save-ee lobby. I booted that up and played a quick single player match with no issue so I decided to then install NeoEE again.
I just went online and tried to join a game... same thing again where it froze 15 seconds into a game. What I realize is that the game will freeze as long as I'm not in the multiplayer menu. The lobby never freezes but if I open the game and let it sit on the main menu after 30 seconds or so the game freezes and I have to force quit.
I suspect there's an issue with the latest NeoEE patch because my outdated NeoEE copy worked just fine and the original game without the latest NeoEE patch also works fine. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could try?
I should note that this happened without changing any graphic settings. I did also turn off Vsync in game, tried compatibility mode, reduced to 8 bit colors, run as administrator, and run in 640x480 screen resolution but none of these had any effect.
*Edit*
I also have a Nvidia GeForce 970 graphics card. I read through this https://neoee.weebly.com/random-freeze.html but there's no info for GeForce cards. Is anyone else here successfully running on a Geforce card?
Today I decided to try again, got into a 4v4 mid sh and was super excited to play... 15 seconds in the game froze and I had to force quit the game.
I then deleted my EE folder, rebooted my computer and downloaded EE again off my Google Drive (I uploaded a copy that I installed on my computer years ago, which doesn't have the NeoEE patch, but has the 2 official Sierra patches). This has worked hundreds of times in the past for neo-ee and the save-ee lobby. I booted that up and played a quick single player match with no issue so I decided to then install NeoEE again.
I just went online and tried to join a game... same thing again where it froze 15 seconds into a game. What I realize is that the game will freeze as long as I'm not in the multiplayer menu. The lobby never freezes but if I open the game and let it sit on the main menu after 30 seconds or so the game freezes and I have to force quit.
I suspect there's an issue with the latest NeoEE patch because my outdated NeoEE copy worked just fine and the original game without the latest NeoEE patch also works fine. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could try?
I should note that this happened without changing any graphic settings. I did also turn off Vsync in game, tried compatibility mode, reduced to 8 bit colors, run as administrator, and run in 640x480 screen resolution but none of these had any effect.
*Edit*
I also have a Nvidia GeForce 970 graphics card. I read through this https://neoee.weebly.com/random-freeze.html but there's no info for GeForce cards. Is anyone else here successfully running on a Geforce card?