Blank white screen during combat

[khoma]

Hello

I got the urge to start playing Civ3 again, and it worked out allright until I started fighting. For some reason, most of the time just when the fight is about to end, the screen goes completely white and stays like that for some time. If it happens during the AI turns, it takes ages, since it doesnt return until long after they're finished moving. Basically, it's unplayable as it is.

Iirc, it's C3C version 1.22, running on Vista 64. Every driver is up to date.
Pentium dual core 3ghz cpu, 2gb ram, geforce 9600gt.

I tried searching various places for information regarding this issue, but so far I seem to be the only one...? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Macezek]

Welcome to the forums khoma!

Do you mean that when 2 units are in combat, as they finish your screen goes completely blank? I've never heard of it, maybe someone else here has. It could be the fact that you're running the 64-bit version of Vista. As far as I know, games written for 32-bit systems usually don't work well with 64-bit systems, especially older games. Civ3 is from 2001, and Conquests 2003, so that could be your problem.

 

[khoma]

That was what was happening indeed. You were probably right about it being a Vista64 issue, because I've now set it to XP compatibility mode and it works perfectly =) Just didn't think to try it at first, since I've never had compatibility mode do anything useful for me in the past.

 

[Macezek]

Glad to hear it's working.