Civ 5 crashes on end of turn

[codrinb]

Civ 5 is crashing after a few turns playing with Egyptians.

I tried starting the game a few times on tiny and the result was the same, after 8-9 turns it crashes to desktop when I press "End turn"

I have a few games saved right before the turn when they crash. Every time I load them up and press end of turn, it crashes.

The longest game I played was the 1st I played, with the Romans. That one crashed somewhere before Renaissance. Same thing, if I try to load the saved game, it crashes again when I press the end of turn.

Basically, I am unable to play the game!

I downloaded and installed the latest nVidia drivers, I change the resolution and video quality to low, I tried windowed and full screen. Steam automatically downloaded v.17, v.20 of the patches and the result is still the same.

I have a bunch of dump files generated but I don't see a way to send it to support. The database.log file contains many entries like "Invalid Reference on ..."

I had high hopes for this game being a fan since Civ 1, but now I am incredibly disappointed. Looks like "alpha" quality software, released very prematurely at the expense of the idiots who buy it...

A great game on the verge of losing a good amount of its fan base...