Civilization 5 crashes often during play

Civilization 5 crashes repeatedly on my system. I can play for 10 minutes but then the system will crash.

I am playing Civilization 5 gods and kings (from the Gold Edition / Steam install).

Here is my system.

Here is my dxdialog and other info:

And then my civ 5 configuration

I also found a lot of people are having the same problem. I don't really see a good solution in there.

I found this, there doesn't seem to be a solution (overheating and civ 5):

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3 Answers

I am running win8 pc I had this problem before here is how I fixed it:

1. Update graphics driver
2. Run as administrator
3. Options->Video Options->GPU Texture Decode->OFf->Restart game

If it didn't work: 4. Options->Video Options->Vsync->OFf->Restart game

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Best way to I've found is to

1) Use directx 9

2) turn off full screen.

To solve this problem you can try running the game in DirectX 9 mode. If that doesn't work there are other solutions that have worked for other people.

You can find instructions for fixing Civilization 5 freezing and crashing here:

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