About this tag
The tag civilization on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about the Civilization video game series, particularly Civilization: Beyond Earth and Civilization V. Users report technical issues such as application failed to initialize errors (0xc0000142), app crashes with StackHash_d957, and BSODs with audio loops while playing these games on Windows 10 and Windows 7. Troubleshooting includes driver updates and clean installs. The tag also includes threads about ancient civilizations and lost technologies, but these are YouTube video posts without technical discussion.
  1. whoosh

    VIDEO Archaeologists Couldn't Believe When They Found These Hands Made Of Gold From A Lost Civilization!

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    • whoosh
    • Thread
    • ancient civilizations archaeology civilization golden artifacts
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  2. whoosh

    VIDEO Dandelions and Civilization: A Forgotten History

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    • whoosh
    • Thread
    • civilization dandelions forgotten history youtube video
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  3. L

    Windows 10 Civilizations Beyond Earth = Application Failed To Initialize 0xc0000142

    Getting this error only on this game. Civ V works fine. Civ BE works fine on my Win7 installation on this same computer. This has failed on Win10 TP and now on Win10 official clean install. I have tried it on the last three NVIDIA drivers including the one just released (355.60) I have run DWSETUP
  4. J

    Windows 7 Appcrash on programs - StackHash_d957, help.

    Hi everyone, first post here, due to this problem I am having regarding appcrash on several programs, mostly games. I have tried researching this problem alone, but cant seem to find a solution. Here is an example of what i get every time i try to open the affected programs (the executable is...
    • JenAndBerrys
    • Thread
    • appcrash application civilization crash error exception executable fault module forum games help os version performance issues random issues stackhash system issues tech support troubleshooting version issues windows
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  5. whoosh

    VIDEO Lost Ancient Tunnel World Above Cuzco Peru

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  6. Starfox27

    Windows 7 Windows 7 BSOD, audio loop

    Hey I'm having this error while playing Civilization: Beyond Earth where my computer will just get a black screen and the audio begins to loop. The only solution is to turn off power and restart. Here's my W7F zip along with some cpu-z imgs from my previous BSOD post (and some additional ones) &...
    • Starfox27
    • Thread
    • amd drivers asrock black screen bsod bugcheck civilization event viewer gaming issues gpu graphics card memory dump nvidia drivers pc troubleshooting restart sound loop system crash tdr error uninstall drivers windows 7 z77 extreme4
    • Replies: 43
    • Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
  7. whoosh

    VIDEO Civilization Lost

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    • whoosh
    • Thread
    • ancient civilizations archaeology civilization history
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  8. whoosh

    VIDEO Lost Ancient Technology In The Highlands Of Peru

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    • whoosh
    • Thread
    • ancient technology archaeology civilization peru
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  9. cybercore

    VIDEO [NASA] Asteroid and Meteors on the Way, NASA Says 'Stay Calm'

    When the Lyrid meteor shower hits full strength Friday and Saturday morning, it will mark a sort of planetary triple crown: Earth Day, Good Friday and Passover. The Lyrids are one of the oldest known showers, creating a light show usually seen easily from Earth -- and completely harmless...
    • cybercore
    • Thread
    • asteroid chaos civilization cosmic earth day gravitational hazardous impact lyrid meteor nasa near earth objects passover predictions public awareness risk solutions space space objects tracking
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  10. cybercore

    [SCIENCE] Signs of Aliens Mining Asteroids

    After 50 years of searching the heavens with radio telescopes to try to contact alien life, so far the attempts of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) scientists seem to have fallen on deaf ears. So is there another way to try to find aliens in our galactic neighborhood? Some...
    • cybercore
    • Thread
    • asteroid astrobiology civilization debris detection dust dust distributions extraterrestrial galaxy hypothesis intelligence materials mining nasa operations research search seti space technology
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  11. cybercore

    UFOs: From Antiquity to Now

    UFOs: From Antiquity to Now Circular ships, vertical aerial cylinders, spheres, disks, wheels in the sky, hat-shaped things, flying pillars or columns and triangular-shaped objects. At first glance, you might think those are common, almost daily, descriptions of UFOs reported by...
    • cybercore
    • Thread
    • aerial ancient texts astronomy chris aubeck civilization credibility eyewitness history jacques vallee legend nuremberg phenomenon report research science sightings technology ufo unexplained wormholes
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  12. Highwayman

    Windows 7 Steam Xmas Sale day #6 (Xmas day from 6pm GMT)

    Sorry bit late with the post, was watching Doctor Who special.... Welcome to Steam 1. Flatout 1, 2 & 3 for £2.80 (Flatout 3 Ultimate Carnage (*) being my first pick of the day at £1.70) 2. Civilization 5 £22.49 (seen it cheaper elsewhere) 3. Altitude £1.74 (some indie flying game) 4. Monkey...
    • Highwayman
    • Thread
    • batman city building civilization cod discounts dragon age flatout games gaming deals indie rock monkey island red faction rpg sales shank splinter cell steam tropico x superbox xmas
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Games
  13. G

    Windows 7 Graphics Card Issue - Random crashes (I think)

    Hi guys, I recently upgraded my GPU to an ATI Radeon HD 5750 and have been having some issues with it, or perhaps the drivers. I have ensured that the latest drivers are installed and have tried a few solutions suggested on the web, such as cleaning my registry and reinstalling the graphics...
    • graemeakerby
    • Thread
    • black screen civilization crash dragon age drivers gaming graphics card hwmonitor overclocking pc build performance radeon recovery registry solutions temperature troubleshooting upgrade vlc
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Windows Graphics and Gaming
  14. cybercore

    IMAGES 7 Miracles of the World: Most Famous and Remote Locations

    Link Removed - Invalid URL You often felt probably tired from all the stress of city life and wanted to get away from it all. You naturally look for a remote place, where no one can disturb you from your holiday. The following places have inspired writers for generations, have been the...
    • cybercore
    • Thread
    • adventure archaeology bishop rock bouvet island civilization desert landscape glacier history inhabitants island location miracles nauru oasis pacific palm islands remote tourism travel tristan
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  15. A

    Windows 7 Civilisation III. Where are Save files?

    I'm an old-timer, I still like Syd Meier's Civilisation III. This installed under Win 7 Home Premium (32 bit) just fine and runs fine - but where do the Save files go? I can't find them in order to delete old ones!
    • Antlion
    • Thread
    • civilization file location file saving gaming old games syd meier windows 7
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Games
  16. hughneutron

    Windows 7 Civilazation 4 and Windows 7

    Trying to install Civ 4 on Windows 7 64 bit oem computer but civ4 can't detect directx11 and wants to install directx9. When I decline to install directx9, programs quits and won't let me go any further. Under the impression that I can't install ver 9 over ver 11. What would happen if I...
    • hughneutron
    • Thread
    • 64-bit civilization compatibility directx gaming installation oem windows 7
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Games
  17. B

    Windows 7 Lag on some games, not online

    I have tried a few versions of Windows 7 from 7100 to the current one and I love it as an OS but I am having lag problems with gaming, single player only. It's not on all games but ones that I play a lot of - Civilization 3, EA Sports Cricket 2007 and one or two others, they all are a couple...
    • belveder
    • Thread
    • civilization compatibility drivers ea games gaming lag optimization performance single player windows 7
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Windows Games