Game crashes at launch when Vsync enabled for Full Screen and Window mode
Published on Saturday, January 22, 2022 By
I've been trying to track down why Galactic Civilization on Windows 11 was continually crashing upon launch. This was only happening on one of my three systems, so I went about trying to identify the differences between them. I reloaded Windows 11 on the system it was crashing on, tried changing resolutions, etc with no luck. I was going over the differences in my Nvidia graphic driver setting and noticed that I had enabled Vsync in both Full screen and Windowed mode (I believe Vsync is enabled in Full Screen only by default). I changed the setting and the game is no longer crashing on launch. Not sure if this is a one-off on this system or a more pervasive issue but thought I'd share in case anyone else was having this problem.