Boy, how it crashes!

[Alexnm]

Ok, now I'm having this problem...

I used to play SMAC in my Duron 850 MHz w/ 256 MB RAM and Windows ME without a single problem. All of a sudden, the game starts to crash randomly. Sometimes it happens when I move a unit, sometimes when I close the base screen... no pattern here.
I always get the message "Terran.exe made something illegal and you'll pay for it" or something like this...

Actually, I tweaked the game a little bit: I added the line "Video Mode=1024" to the "alphacentauri.ini" file, because I wanted to play the game in that resolution even if my screen resolution is 800x600 at the moment. Only then the game started to crash.

I tried to change the line "ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm" as described in the readme file, but to no avail. Do I have to reinstall the game? (Please, tell me I won't have to do it).

Thanks.

 

[Sukenis]

This happened on my parents PC (they have an older one) when I was visiting them (and took SMAC with me). I had to reinstal the program and reboot before I played to stop it from crashing. Maybe you can try that.

 

[Alexnm]

What puzzles me is how the game was running fine and then started to crash. But I'll try to reinstall it, maybe it has something to do with the alphacentauri.ini file.

 

[Terje]

Originally posted by Alexnm
play the game in that resolution even if my screen resolution is 800x600 at the moment. Only then the game started to crash.

What you should do is to make sure the resolution in smac matches the one you use in windows. I had the same problem, but when I changed win resolution to 800x600 (same as the smac original res), it works just perfect.

 

[Alexnm]

Thanks, Terje, but I actually found out that the problem was my videocard... it was overheating because the cooler was broken... after that, no more problems, only fun!

 

[Terje]

nice that you found a way yourself, coz my method didn't work...