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planetfall
Nov 10, 2003, 11:31 AM
Description
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C3C intermittently crashes when switching to F3 screen.

Steps
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1. load scenario 2, rise of Rome
2. view victory conditions
3. view power settings
4. press F3

"Crash" != XP crashes, but C3C exits back to user background screen, not to user login screen.

Doesn't happen every time. In 100 turns, happened 3 times. Might be a fat finger problem of hitting both F3 and F4 at the same time.

Results
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Have not tried fat finger on purpose. Sometimes works and other times crashes.

Expected
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Military screen.

Notes
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Don't know severity of bug. Don't know if extends beyond one user or beyond XP multi user install.


-- PF

Rik Meleet
Dec 08, 2003, 03:51 PM
I am so sure when this happened to me (about 5 times in 7 games) I did NOT press F3 and F4 simultaniously.

With me C3C just ends; as if you choose "End Game" and it exits and shows my Desktop. I use Win XP.

I haven't had it sufficiently, but it seems that it happens after some 3 or 4 hours playing and more often when I load a game (I save / load when I go to bed, to work or dinner).

PTW never did this and neither did Vanilla.

<edit>The save (http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads6/Conquests_Autosave_Jul.,_1535_AD.zip)
For what it's worth; I just opened the save again and it didn't crash. It seems it's a moment in time or randomly generated or a special key-combination that triggers it. It just looks like pressing <Esc> and <Y> (to confirm) in 1.
</edit>

junuil
Dec 08, 2003, 07:19 PM
Press F3,me too.

planetfall
Dec 09, 2003, 09:22 AM
May be a problem with the early scenarios. I have not experienced the bug in the middle to late scenarios or first epic game.

Of course I have been more carefully about not pressing multiple keys on the
top keyboard line so problem could still be there.

-- PF

Zenon_pt
Dec 17, 2003, 04:57 PM
I was playing the epical game, with the Portuguese and wend I clik on F1... SAYONARA game!!! :(

haggi
Dec 18, 2003, 04:33 AM
I dont use F3 anymore, it has crashed more times than I care to remember after hitting the F3 key, bit of a nuisance but starting the same turn over and over is worse.

Kaboth
Dec 26, 2003, 04:52 AM
Yep I've experienced this bug in epic game on Windows XP. hit F3 and game crashes with no error message.

planetfall
Jan 01, 2004, 09:35 PM
Update-- epic game, end of turn, wait at end of turn active. Press F4 running winxp, and game crashes.

== PF

Chieftess
Jan 02, 2004, 07:44 AM
Post a save if you can reproduce it in the same save.