Civ & 10.2

[juanvaldes]

Seems to have been cleared up with the 1.21g update

 

[gfeier]

Originally posted by juanvaldes
Seems to have been cleared up with the 1.21g update

Hi Juan. I'm a little confused (normal state). What was cleared up? 1.21g is dated August 1st. OS 10.2 came out August 24th.

 

[juanvaldes]

well, I was having these freezes a few turns into the game. But after I posted here I though of checking VT and there was a patch. After the patch the crashes disappeared.

 

[gfeier]

The freezes still show up, but not as often. They last almost exactly one minute on my system, then go away.

 

[juanvaldes]

so there still there huh? well ****. Since I have never seen this before it is a OS X.2 issue?

 

[ejday]

Originally posted by juanvaldes
so there still there huh? well ****. Since I have never seen this before it is a OS X.2 issue?

It might be X.2 issue depending on your hardware config. Maybe I'm jinxing myself, but I'm running X.2 (on a medium-old machine) and I haven't had any freezes. Not even any Civ related crashes (though I do have issues with iTunes if I play it underneath Civ).

 

[juanvaldes]

well, this is sticky. I played civ a bunch on my old dual 450 machine pretty much bug free. Got a new dual 1Ghz and this was the first time I fired up Civ. This was also the first time under 10.2, which is why I thought it was the OS (frameworks could have changed causing problems) but it could be my new machine.

 

[ejday]

Hm. My gut reaction is that it's how X.2 talks to the hardware, but... did you copy over your old files and play directly, or do a new install of Civ, repatch and only copy over mods, etc.?
Here's something else: there is a CivIII preferences file in preferences/library/user and it might be just enough to muck up the game. That might be worth a shot (but I can't say definitively). Maybe you want to ask (PM) Brad Oliver on this one.

 

[ejday]

Then again, (my brain is in first gear now) if it cleared up when you applied the patch, ignore me.

 

[gfeier]

Originally posted by juanvaldes
so there still there huh? well ****. Since I have never seen this before it is a OS X.2 issue?

I first ran into the freezes under 10.1 and 1.21f. They mostly went away under 1.21g. Always happens during unit movement and I have an off-the-wall hunch it's a sound-related issue between the unit sound and the background music. No big deal now since it happens with less than 1% of the frequency I saw under 1.21f. Gives me a chance to stretch.

 

[juanvaldes]

okay, well... I had Civ on my second HD which got moved into my new system. So it's the same old copy of the application but since it's under a new OS a new pref file was created.

But I haven't put in a whole lot of time into it now that the freezes seem to have been fixed to know that they are gone. I'd say I only got 30 minutes of game play before I had to stop.