aaak help! something's wrong

[axionman]

I came back to CivII after a few years of not playing, and there is a major techinical problem now: when I get a technology advancement, right after I'm informed that I've discovered something new and it goes to show the info on what I discovered, the game crashes. I get the blue screen of death saying "A fatal exception OE has occurred at 015F:BFF9DBA7." I have to restart my computer to get out of it. Please help asap! I can't stand not playing CivII now!
thanks

 

[Smash]

You wouldn't be using ME would you?

 

[axionman]

Originally posted by Smash:
You wouldn't be using ME would you?

nope.. Windows 98, Pentium 2 350, 128 MB RAM, etc.. more help wanted

 

[oryx]

Try turning off the "civilopedia for advances" graphics option. You may want to turn off all the graphics options in fact.

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"There is no tiddle-taddle nor pibble-pabble in Pompey's camp."

 

[Smash]

You can try that.Everything off.Then on 1 at a time to see if there is a particular culprit.Most likely will be civlopedia(as mentioned) or advice/tutor if anything.

Could be an extension conflict.This is a bit of pain but can be sorted out.

Maybe more memory needs to be allotted to it?

 

[axionman]

Well actually b4 you told me to, I turned off the "Show civilopedia after tech advance" option and it worked fine.. BUT, whenever i accidentally double click on a terrain tile then the civilopedia comes up and crashes the computer. So the culprit is the Civilopedia. Now what? Any way to fix it? What do you mean more memory may need to be alotted?
thanks for the help, keep it comin.

 

[oryx]

I don't know how you would allocate more memory, so that's not an option. The problem probably has something to do with the video driver. What version of CIV II do you have?
Who is the maker of your video card? Have you ever updated the video driver?

 

[axionman]

I'm not sure if this is the right info for video cards, but in the device manager under "sound, video, and game controllers," I have: YAMAHA DS-XG GamePort, YAMAHA DS-XG Legacy Sound System, and YAMAHA DS-XG PCI Audio CODEC. I have the old version of CivII (not sure which one), but I got the 2.42 patch, so I don't think that's an issue. Any more ideas? please

 

[oryx]

I found this section from the FAQ for the 2.42 patch. If you have the 2.42 patch then you can read the FAQ yourself. It sounds like your problem.

Q: I am getting GPFs whenever I discover a new technology, or bring up the Civilopedia.

A: Try renaming or deleting the file GET_INFO.EXE from your CIV2 directory. You won't get the fancy Civilopedia, but you will get the beta version of the civilopedia. In this case, the problem is some conflict with the Authorware package we used to do the hypertext version of Civilopedia.

Apparently I have the same problem with my installation, for I have no GET_INFO.exe. Also nothing happens when I double click terrain.

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"There is no tiddle-taddle nor pibble-pabble in Pompey's camp."


[This message has been edited by oryx (edited April 01, 2001).]

 

[axionman]

that did it! finally!

 

[axionman]

oh and thank you!

 

[axionman]

also--now the Civilopedia never comes up, which is a good thing for my purposes.. Any other solutions so that I can use the civilopedia?

 

[Az]

Well in an older version of Civ 2 (I have gold) Civillopedia use to be regarded by the computer as a different aplication (I own a mac). At that time in was easy to open it alone so that you refer to it whenever you wanted. Idon't know anything else...sorry.