c3c crashes in multiplayer

[norsk viking]

Civ3 Conquests crashes intermittently during online play. In the attached autosave file, I was playing a non-ladder game as Famous_Amos. The game exits to Windows desktop with no error messages. Operating system is XP - completely up to date. Please let me know if aditional info is needed. I never had a problem with PTW, but can't seem to get thru a single game of conquests without a crash.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads6/Conquests_Autosave_1870_BC.SAV[/URL]

 

[Chieftess]

More information needed. Can you say what you were doing before the crash? Also, was this game started in PTW? Or Civ3 Conquests?

 

[norsk viking]

I launched the game from Civ3 Conquests. I was just viewing the map ready to move a unit when the game quickly ended and I was then staring at my desktop screen. Sometimes the game crashes in 30 minutes, sometimes 20, sometimes an hour.

My audio card is Directx compliant: a SoundBlaster Augidy 2 ZX, however my video card may not be compliant - an NVidia GeForce3 Ti500 with the latest drivers. I plan on replacing the video card this week. I'll let you know if that fixes the problem.

I appreciate your help on this. I've been absent from the ladder for awhile now and would like to participate again. But all I've been doing lately is reporting losses due to excessive drops.

 

[Chieftess]

Where you clicking anywhere on the minimap? See if you can reproduce it and what map size it was. It could be a pixel-by-pixel thing.

 

[norsk viking]

I was not clicking anything in the mini-map. I replaced my GeForce3 Ti500 card with a GeForce FX5700 Ultra. Played through an entire game without a hitch. Visiontek wrote back to me stating that my old card was not Directx 9.0b compliant and that they would not be updating the BIOS.

Thanks for your help - all appears to work fine now.