lengthy pauses during auto-play, expected?

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Chieftain
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Hi, just installed the mod for vanilla civ 4. Latest patch 1.61. Otherwise the install is clean and untouched... aside from a handful of games I played on the medieval scenario that comes with.

I'm started my first game as the Arabians and sat down to wait out the auto-play. With 104 turns to go things pause.. the game had been moving along quite rapidly I doubt I waited a minute to this point. I wait 5ish minutes and nothing is happening. Busy cursor is still spinning I can browse all the sub-menus. Though I touched nothing while it auto-played.

Tried again and the same thing happens with 113 turns to go. Tried again as the Americans and this happens with 260-240 turns to go.. I forget exactly.

Is this expected behavior? I was moving along at a turn per second so this seems unusual. My system is a Pentium 4 3.0ghz w/ 2gig of ram, an ATI 9800xt 512 mb video card, and running on win XP home.

Im also curious if anyone has modded the civ switch feature? I think it would be wonderful to jump civs as often as you like.
 
Try to download the previous version... there were similiar complaints about the last one. I 'll load the latest version myself someday and report, will I "meet" that nasty problem too...
 
I had that for the v195 also, v193 works fine though :confused:

The pause happens at turn 50, when the Greeks start. I entered the editor after waiting a few minutes and Greece still didn't start up yet.
 
Ok, here is a saved game made after things paused on turn 43 as the Arabians.

Where might I find previous versions?
 
Are you running any modpacks or modcomps? If so, you need to remove them for RFC to run properly. It sounds like you're having a consistent issue with the Greece spawn, which happens when the mod's files are altered.

With the exception of applying Rhye's fix I have not touched these files or installed anything above these. The only added component I have is the Blue Marble terrain. I have also tried a fresh download and install of v195 to no prevail.
 
Try it without Blue Marble. I know it sounds silly, but any change could prevent the python from executing properly.
 
I don't know if this is connected but playing as China since the beginning, I'll get an indefinite pause (the cursor keeps rotating but nothing happens, can't switch out or Ctrl-Alt-Delete) right after the Carth's appear.
 
I feel like I'm in the twilight zone.

Again, the "bug" you are reporting is usually because you have custom assets of some sort. I would suggest uninstalling Civ4, reinstalling, and only adding the RFC196 mod. It should run fine.
 
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