This has been covered in the FAQ's but have tried the fixes but they don't seem to work.

When i get to a space victory the game crashes to the desktop any suggestions

thanks :sad:

Does it give you an error message before it crashes? (eg. "missing entry in Pediaicons.txt") or similar?

No the intial music starts but crashes without error messages

Well, if you hear the sound, setting the refresh rate manually might help (long shot).

See this post (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=118126#9).

refresh rate?

The number of times per second that your monitor screen redraws. The instructions are at that link.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=118126#9

Thanks I tried again with your instructions:_

Option 1: Look in your ..\Civilization III\Art\movies\ folder for a file called "Race.BIK". Rename this to "Race_Old.bik" or some other name. Make a copy of "intro.BIK" (or even "security_briefing.bik") found in the same folder. Rename it to "Race.BIK". Now you won't get the space race movie, but hopefully the game won't crash....

this work in the vanilla civ 3 but the game still crashes in conquests expansion,
there is a "Conquests.bik" file & "Victory_Movie.bik file" is the p[rocess similer to above?

What is the error message?

no message just crashes to the desktop

I think yes. AFAIK Conquests.bik is the intro movie, and Victory_Movie the space one. Rename them the same way.

thanks for all your help guys i ended up deleting Victory_Movie file and it worked!!!!! yay renaming it didn't work

Thanks again!!!!!!

I love a happy ending :D