call to power curser freezes

[Civ4newbie]

hi, I am having a technical issue with my classic call to power game. i can start my game and it works for about 1 o 2 game turns butt then the cursor freezes for the game so i canot play it at all and that freezes my computer so i have to reststart the computer using he keyboard. please help me fix this problem i havea dell labtop inspirion3000 series and using windows 8,i have no idea what to do..

 

[Souron]

Assuming it's not a game bug, I would guess that the problem is you don't have enough RAM. You can test this by using task manager to monitor memory usage while you play the game. If the memory usage of your game grows substantially more than your physical memory, that would confirm it. You can also look at "commit charge", which is the same thing except for the entire system instead of just your game.

If that's the problem, you might be able to buy RAM for your brand of laptop to upgrade it.

 

[shadowplay]

CTP is pretty old for it to be a RAM issue. How much RAM did the average game require in 1998? 16MB?

 

[Civ4newbie]

well it said to it needed 2mb of video ram, 1997 or later or it required 64 mb of ram with Pentium 200mhs. I have 870 gb of disk drive space. my labtop is about a year old, I still don't know whatit could be

 

[Serutan]

It's probably Windows 8. The Civ 2 forum's Technical support area is the best place for this question.

 

[leif erikson]

Had a similar problem some years ago and my mouse needed to be replaced.