A completely New Bug

[Meat Wad]

Amidst the Vid Card TnL fury, I forgot the very first problem I experienced with Civ IV:
When I inserted the CD, it automatically booted up my EPSQ questionaire (A completely unrelated application of which those of you with security clearance may be aware).

WTH?

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"Sometimes you eat the bar. And, well, sometimes the bar eats you."

This Dude will NOT Abide!

 

[Harrier]

(A completely unrelated application of which those of you with security clearance may be aware).

Well if you happen to be in a position which requires SC - you have just blown it.

First rule is - do not let others, know you know about security matters.

I hope you have civ4 - as you will be out of real work for a long long time.

 

[AsnoT]

the readme files on the disk are html format.

if you have set your browser to re-display the last page you were on when you start it, it may have re-opened the site with the questionnaire....?

 

[phybre]

When I inserted the CD, it automatically booted up my EPSQ questionaire (A completely unrelated application of which those of you with security clearance may be aware).

This doesn't sound like it has anything to do with Civ, per se. It sounds like your autoplay settings are nutty, and doing something they oughtn't. It seems likely that the EPSQ software is what messed with it. As you probably know, government software has a habit of being... let's say somewhat low in quality. DSS software is no exception. Even most of the private sector software that is meant to do approximately the same thing... sucks. At least in my experience.

If the problem is being caused by Civ, it may have to do with the memory problems, and perhaps is re-calling the last thing you ran before you ran it, or EPSQ stays memory resident maybe (I have no idea about its particulars) and Civ is invading its memory space.

3 to 2 odds that whatever the problem is being caused by, regedit can fix it. See what the registry has to say about how autoplay is being used. Or if you have an agent running that grabs autoplay before it runs (like some CD burning software does, like EPSQ itself might do) that might be the problem, too.