Late in game, crashes when taking over a city

[soulbait]

I am late into a game (year 2010 I believe), and I am trying to do a domination victory. I am playing on a large map, with only 3 other Civs left. Most of the city states are still there, and they are all mostly my allies. I have either puppeted or anexed all the cities that I have taken over and control more than half of the cities on the map. Now every time I try to take over a city, the game crashes. More specifically, anytime I defeat the city. The options window does not pop-up, but the game crashes. Any ideas? I would love to be able to finish this game!

Crashes in both DirectX 9 and DirectX 10-11 modes

Game settings
Size - Large
Diff - 3
Land - Pangaea

PC Specs
Intel 2.8 Duo
4 GB ram
Vista 64 bit
Nvidia GeForce M 9600GT (updated to latest drivers)

Let me know if there is any more information I can provide that will prove useful.

[Megalomania]

Same problem here. As soon as I reach the 70th city- it crashes. So frustrating, yet to finish a game.

[DolPhan54]

Yeah, count the total amount of cities you have. Apparently people are having a bug when they take over the 70th city, but can complete the game if they keep it at 69 cities.

[soulbait]

It is indeed the 69 cities game bug. Very odd, but hopefully an easy fix via patch.

Maybe it is God punishing us for being such evil dictators, LOL.

I just wonder how this bug got through.

[Snoochems]

well, 70 cities is a lot of cities. You won't be able to build that many on Warlord and above i reckon.

[tombrokaw]

me too, 70 cities then crash.