Can't get Alpha Centauri to run. AT WIT'S END. Windows 7 x64

[lobski]

I've been trying to get SMAC/X to run on my machine. It's not working and I am getting quite agitated.

I have the Planetary Pack.
I've tried the complete installation.
Tried running terran.exe without the compatibility patch.
Tried running terran.exe with the compatibility patch.
Tried running terranx.exe without the compatibility patch.
Tried running terranx.exe with the compatibility patch.
Tried running the game off the latest unofficial patch. And tried original.
Comparability modes Win9x/ME & XP
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm= to 0 and 1.
DirectDraw= to 0 and 1.
ds3d= to 0 and 1.
eax= to 0 and 1.

They ALL end with "terranx.exe has stopped working" crash when I try to launch.

This problem is maddening, what can I do to make the game work?




Event viewer error log:

Fault bucket , type 0
EventID 1001
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: terranx.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 31313931
P4: StackHash_5bd0
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 00000000
P7: c0000005
P8: 02580b16
P9:
P10:

 

[Petek]

Hi there lobski,

Welcome to CFC and our Alpha Centauri forum! I'll reply to you on WePlayCiv.

Petek

 

[TeeWee]

This has probably been solved already, but I've just solved a similar case for myself.

One way to check if this is an issue, is to check if SMAC will run under an administrator account (run as administrator at your own risk though. It's not really recommended). If it will run, it's likely a permission issue.

The key is that the user running SMAC must have permissions to write in the SMAC-directory. I've done this by giving all Users full permissions to the SMAC-directory in Program Files; with some more effort I could probably narrow it down a bit more to specific files etc. It's not advised to give users permissions to write in the entire Program Files directory.