I have been playing with my girlfriend and sister on two Macs and a PC running Windows 7 and we've often got an OOS error when there's a random event, so that some of us got the random event, and the others did not. What's curious, is that it's always the PC that is OOS while the two Macs are never OOS with each other, so that lead me to believe that perhaps there was some discrepency in the probabilities for the random events on the two systems. I compared the two files, Beyond the Sword/Assets/XML/GameInfo/CIV4EraInfos.xml, of the PC version and Mac version and found out that indeed, they are different, most notably the iEventChancePerTurn values, which seems to correlate nicely with my suspicions. So I replaced the file on the PC with the file from one of the Macs in the hope that it should fix things up.
I haven't yet got around to try it (short of just seeing that the game doesn't crash at startup), but I'm posting this anyway, because it may be a while before I get to try it properly and I may forget to post about it afterwards if it works. Also, some may be planning to play a lot during the holidays and if this does indeed help, it would be a shame to hold back on the info just because it hasn't been tried yet. Besides, this way more people can try it out and report back their findings. And of course, if you have more PC's than Macs, it'll be easier to take the XML from a PC to replace the one on the Mac.
P.S. There's also another source of OOS, and that's when you take a stack of units and upgrade some of them but not all (i.e. when you don't have enough gold to upgrade them all). That will also cause an OOS. It's fairly simple to avoid, just remember to upgrade one and one unit at a time.
I hope this comes in handy for someone out there
I haven't yet got around to try it (short of just seeing that the game doesn't crash at startup), but I'm posting this anyway, because it may be a while before I get to try it properly and I may forget to post about it afterwards if it works. Also, some may be planning to play a lot during the holidays and if this does indeed help, it would be a shame to hold back on the info just because it hasn't been tried yet. Besides, this way more people can try it out and report back their findings. And of course, if you have more PC's than Macs, it'll be easier to take the XML from a PC to replace the one on the Mac.
P.S. There's also another source of OOS, and that's when you take a stack of units and upgrade some of them but not all (i.e. when you don't have enough gold to upgrade them all). That will also cause an OOS. It's fairly simple to avoid, just remember to upgrade one and one unit at a time.
I hope this comes in handy for someone out there
