Hello,

Me and a friend are having problems in the late stages of our multiplayer games. We play simulatenous moves against 6 computer players. I have Civ 3 + PTW expansion... he has Civ 3 Gold edition. Both have patch 1.27f for our respective games.

The problem occurs during the late stages of games... most notably the modern era. After a random turn is done (our latest game screwed up in 1898), the hour glass pops up on both our screens, and after 5+ minutes of waiting it usually boots one of us and the other's game freezes.

Is this a known issue, and are there any known fixes/suggestions? It's frustrating to get to the modern era and have the game randomly crash. Neither of us have modified the game, and we both have broadband (DSL and cable modem respectively).

..............Anyone?

Me and my friend are having the same problem. It's because that "waiting on player" timer appear when loading turns, and in late games a turn takes a while. After 60 secs after that timer has appeared the game quits.

Come on, someone must know a solution to this? And it can't be the computer because we are both sitting on 3 ghz and lots of RAM.

Hmmmm, does Civ 3 have an official technical support forum then?

You can try Atari Tech Support (http://www.atarisupport.com/newfaq/civilizationiii.php), but be warned: if they cannot solve your problem, they will direct you here. :eek: ;)