Anyone able to help?

[Nightingale]

Howdy,

Well, I've been playing this highly addictive game for about a month now, but something weird has started to happen, the weirdness looks like this:

CIVILIZATION3 has caused an invalid page fault in modul CIVILIZATION3.EXE on the address 017f:00403046.
Indhold af registrene:
EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=00403046 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=005c6858 SS=0187 ESP=00abf9e4 EBP=01570eb0
ECX=10f7d8ac DS=0187 ESI=10f7d8ac FS=52df
EDX=00000f5f ES=0187 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Byte ved CS:EIP:
8b 80 3c 01 00 00 83 c1 58 8b 50 04 52 e8 a8 80
Indhold af stakken:
00000000 004063f3 00000000 10f7d8ac 10f7d740 01d05c60 0000149e 00000000 00586642 005c6858 0050d38d 10f7d520 00abfa50 00593b1b ffffffff 004eaf38

(Partly translated from Danish, error message might read differently on other machines.)

Personally this error message is a complete mystery to me, I have no idea what it is trying to say (aside that the game has crashed, of course), or what to do about it.

I used to have DirectX 8.1 but killed it so I could go back to 8.0a, still didn't work, have the latest drives for my videocard (I assume the latest is the 23.11 thingy), a GeForce DDR, and now I'm fresh out of ideas.

I'm playing with the v1.16f patch.

Oh, and my whole system looks like this:

AMD Athlon 750
160 mb RAM
GeForce DDR
Sound Blaster Live! Bulk
Running Windows 98 Second Edition

I suppose those are the most important information.

The error always happens at the same time, I have two games that now crash when it's my turn again, there does not appear to be any order or any chance of predicting when an ongoing game will crash, it simply does at some point in the game, though both of the games have crashed in the Industrial Age...

Anyway, if anyone has any idea, or suggestion, or any kind of aid they can offer, it would be very nice.

Right now about the only thing I can think of is reinstalling Win98se, and I would really much rather not do that.

Thanks in advance to anyone that might take time to ponder my problem.

Nightingale

 

[J Fred Muggs]

How did you "kill" DX8.1? It says when you load it there is no going back. However I did it last night using the DirectX Buster program, worked very well. Went to version 8 only to have Civ start crashing, went back to 8.1 and it works fine again. I'm using Win ME and a VooDoo 4 graphics card. The reason I did it was they don't support the VooDoo anymore so I installed 3rd party drivers.

 

[Nightingale]

Used exactly the same program as you, seemed to work quite well, no difference after I installed 8.0a though, the game still crashes at exactly the same time.

I think I'm going to reinstall Windows, see what happens...

Best of luck to you in solving your problems!

 

[J Fred Muggs]

Nope, no problems here. All is well. I just found it interesting in trying different combonations of things, as to what worked and what didn't.

 

[Nightingale]

Well, seems the game kept crashing because I had replaced the Explorer unit with a unit of my own design that used Rifleman graphics... evidently the game would simply die when either I, or an AI would build this new unit... rather annoying, I hope they fix this problem in some later patch, or something.

So... if you've radically changed a unit in the game, and it starts crashing, try putting the old unit back, that is what I've learned anyway, maybe others could benefit.

Respectfully,
Nightingale