It has happened to Elucidus and me too. I've been exiting to the menu before closing the game down and, perhaps it is a coincidence, but it seems to have helped.

I'm not even getting in to the game to do that though, i dont get past the loading screen.

I think i broke it again, Whip would you mind just AI'ing me? think that'll be easier for everyone.

Network Socket error on BCLG again. Reload has 4 1/2 hours for him, crazy jow, and mighty dwaarf to finish the turn.

There is a recovery file for BCLG which means that pitboss had him in the game. So, apparently it crashes the instant you are in, so fast you don't even see it. Did you get a "connecting to peer XXX" message at the start of the load? I sometimes get a network socket error disconnect when I join a game hosted by others and a player is already playing the turn. I get dumped but it doesn't crash the game.

I get the usual logging in stuff that you get with every other game. connected to peer etc- downloading the game etc. then somewhere in between there and actually showing the game it crashes.

It seems to happen more often than not when ive alt-tabbed out of the game.

Not sure why that would make a difference and i do it with all of my games but it does. :confused:

civstats is down yet again

I have contracted a virus. I've shut the game down so it is not a vehicle for infecting the players.

I'll work on fixing this tonight.

This thing is proving more evil than I had thought. I couldn't swat it last night; will try again tonight.

Any status on the computer?

This thing is proving more evil than I had thought. I couldn't swat it last night; will try again tonight.

The viruses these days are so nasty that you almost need to do a complete reformat of your hard drive to get rid of it.

The viruses these days are so nasty that you almost need to do a complete reformat of your hard drive to get rid of it.

Nastier than you think. This one actually sends a worm into your BIOS to change boot priorities so you can only boot off of the infected drive. The other drives are disabled. I had to flash the motherboard to undo that. It also disables taskmanager so you can't kill the processes which is where it lives.

I don't think any removal program will help as none of them can remove running processes. There is a CMD program that will remove running processes but you need to know the name of the process that is running to remove it.

This sucker promotes SpyAway as a remedy that sells on line for $50. I wouldn't be surprised if the damn thing wouldn't remove it anyway.

If any of you gets infected with this the only fix is:

Flash the motherboard by changing the jumpers or removing the battery for an hour or so. With no juice from the battery the BIOS will revert to factory settings.

Install an additional hard drive. Format and install the OS on the new partition. Boot off of the new partition. You now have the virus isolated on the old drive that you won't boot from. You can then transfer data files from the old drive to the new one, but I would not move any executable files.

I don't think any removal program will help as none of them can remove running processes. There is a CMD program that will remove running processes but you need to know the name of the process that is running to remove it.
Actually, most of the major antivirus programs can do it. However, some particular virus may be programmed to disable antivirus programs one way or another - in that case antivirus will not work while a virus is active.

Install an additional hard drive. Format and install the OS on the new partition. Boot off of the new partition. You now have the virus isolated on the old drive that you won't boot from. You can then transfer data files from the old drive to the new one, but I would not move any executable files.
As long as you got an antivirus that can heal that virus, why not to copy exe files?
Try Kaspersky, it got an online scanner http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner and a free trial http://www.kaspersky.com/trials

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=35

Follow their procedures. They will help you fix it.

Also how did you get the virus?

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=35

Follow their procedures. They will help you fix it.

Also how did you get the virus?

Since my C drive is still infected, I'll try this this evening.

I have no idea how I contracted the virus. I have not browsed unfamiliar websites. It showed up when I exited a PtS SP session.

Less than 4 hours left on the turn and nobody has played the reload.

Less than 4 hours left on the turn and nobody has played the reload.

Might have helped if you had told us there was a reload. I didn't even know it was done yet.

I'll reload it tonight.

Also whip can i still be kicked- after all this work you've done to sort out the comp id hate to crash it again :)

that and there is very little left for me to do anyways :)

Well your dumbass host not only forgot to notify but didn't supply the new IP :lol:

The game will be roladed in 3 hours.

IP is 65.26.250.180

The game is back up with 16 1/2 hours on the turn.

IP is 65.26.250.180

Why did the turn go to 1280AD again? 1280 wasn't supposed to start for at least another 4 hours and half my team didn't get a chance to play their turn yet.

Ok, I can load back tonight if you want.

I reloaded to exactly where the game was when the virus showed up.

1270AD - 16 1/2 hours to go.

Need to play:

Crazy Joe
CB
Mighty Dwaarf
BCLG
TestofTime
IanDC

game is down again

I still have some configuration problems and won't have much time to iron it out until this weekend. Crashed to blue screen. Back up now.

TestofTime needs to replay the turn.

I see both my civstats sites are down. I won't know for sure until I return home from work, but I fear the Blue Screen of Death. This has happened twice recently. This is not related to the virus I had. It's usually due to overheating, faulty system memory, or a bad device driver. If the server crashed as I suspect, I will need the weekend to diagnose and fix the problem. I have no time until than due to other commitments.

So if the game is down it won't be back up until at least Sunday evening. This could be time consuming to diagnose as it has happened when the system was at rest. It's not related to any running programs or processes. Last evening I had the machine running for 8 hours before I went to bed. The crash came in the middle of the night. I will reinstall the video and sound drivers and take one stick of RAM out of the maching. If it's bad RAM I have a 50/50 chance at a fix. If it runs ok for 24 hours I won't do anything else. If it crashes I'll swap the RAM sticks and try again.

I could keep the game running but we'd have lots of reloads until this is fixed.

The game will go up tomorrow (Tuesday) evening 6:00 PM CDT (GMT -6)

The game is up.

NEW IP IS 24.209.166.152

Hopefully you can all connect; but since I had to reinstall and reconfigure everything I would not be surprised that I may have screwed up something.:lol:

Civstats isn't up yet though.

Ya, I probably won't get to that until tomorrow. I've got another pitboss game to configure. 16+ hours to play this turn.

Players who have not played this turn yet are:

IanDC
TestofTime
BCLG100
Mightydwaarf
CB
CrazyJoe

Thank you all for your patience.

I mistakenly loaded the wrong profile for civstats. I loaded my other game profile. The only work-around I could come up with was to start a new civstats database for this game.

http://www.civstats.com/viewgame.php?gameid=878

If you feel a need to register your leader the password is "aa".

I forgot to turn off windows automatic update and had a reboot during the night. Reloaded - HitAnyKey needs to replay his turn.

MightDwaarf, are you going to ever log in and play your turn again?

I think it might be best to set him to AI.

Is that what you and your teammates want?

Civstats is offline, btw. Please restart it.

done.......

please boot Mighty Dwaarf to AI. He hasn't logged in at all yet. It's harmful to the game to leave him like that.

Whip, either boot MD to AI today or you can just end the game as I'll stop playing. This is getting rediculous.

done......

HAK needs to redo his turn due to server crash.

Hey, any chance you guys could please hold off until Monday? I want to be able to be here when the endgame starts, and I'll be in Chicago all weekend without access to the game and won't be flying back until Monday.

OK, I've taken the game down. 1390 ADm 14+ hours left on the timer.

Let me know when it should go up again to accomodate your travel schedule.

Um, don't take it down now. I wasn't even actually expecting you to take it down. I don't leave for Chicago until Friday.

Heh, ok I'll put it back up. But, your post was a little confusing.

Well damn. Just noticed not a single other person from my team was able to log in last turn.

Crazy Joe has attacked Tony, so the endgame begins.

I didn't even know this thread existed until just now, I just saw we were at war and did what I could with a lone scout deep in your territory... If we want to call a temporary truce until Monday when HAK comes back I'm fine with that... Although it doesn't really matter... Infantry vs. Longbowmen aren't really a fight...

Will HAK be available to play a turn today (Friday)?

Maybe you should just consider surrender rather than delay the inevitable. Your choice, no disgrace in recognizing reality.

I'm playing my turn right now, but yeah, the game is pretty much over as there's nothing we can do besides get mowed down. So I'm not sure there's really much point in continuing. My team can play my turns over the weekend until I'm back, but it won't really matter.
Once this game is over (which it basically is), I'm calling it quits for Civ for a few months at least. Got too much going on in my live.

OK, HAK enjoy your time in Chicago and your civ respite. It was nice having you along.

PAL proposes ending this game. There no longer is any challenge, hence any fun.

If StG agrees we can move on to another game. If the interest is there from 16 or even 12 players I would host another like this one, no native villages or events though.

I'm oaky with ending, but I'm not interested in playing another game just now. Thanks for the good game, everyone. :) Even if I was sort-of stuck in the Tundra the whole time, and didn't really have contact with anyone... :/

StG agrees to a surrender to PAL.

I also will not be playing. I actually won't be playing Civ at all for at least a couple months. It was fun guys, and good luck with future games. I'll be back eventually.

OK, we'll call this the end.

A hiatus from civ is often a good thing. Refresh yourself with other good things in life.

C U later.

Thanks for hosting the game whip

cdz would probably be interested in playing another game if you were to do so but perhaps on a more even map.

I second BC's commetns... Thanks for hosting and the random map sucked.

I'll probably wait for the patch. But if it doesn't come out in a couple of weeks I'll start without it. It will probably take a month to get the interest of 12 or 16 players and agree on rules/settings.

The map did suck as did the amazing luck PAL had in hut popping. If I do this again I will try to enlist the assistance of a mapmaker and there will be no goody huts.

My thanks also for hosting it Whip.

I'm looking forward to the new one :)