Civ 3 Complete Failure to Start

[Apache28]

Hello everyone,

I am currently unable to start Civ 3 Complete (Aspyr) from my Intel Core 2 Duo iMac running Leopard version 10.5.8. When I open the application from or from Finder, it bounces several times on the dock and then disappears. Shortly after, I receive an error message that says "The application Civilization 3 Complete quit unexpectedly." The accompanying error report reads as follows:

Process: Civilization 3 Complete [10546]
Path: /Applications/Civ III Complete/Civilization 3 Complete.app/Contents/MacOS/Civilization 3 Complete
Identifier: com.aspyr.civ3conquests
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: PPC (Translated)
Parent Process: launchd [195]

Interval Since Last Report: 87274 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 3
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 0 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 7

Date/Time: 2009-10-25 20:58:30.211 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 12FA424B-F1EB-4453-AADB-36B6AE80437E

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000074437572
Crashed Thread: 0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 translate 0xb80bcd58 0xb8000000 + 773464
1 translate 0xb80b7007 0xb8000000 + 749575
2 translate 0xb80d49c0 0xb8000000 + 870848
3 translate 0xb813ce79 spin_lock_wrapper + 1981
4 translate 0xb8011b64 0xb8000000 + 72548

Thread 1:
0 ??? 0x800bc286 0 + 2148254342
1 ??? 0x800c3a7c 0 + 2148285052
2 translate 0xb818b6ea CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 202886
3 ??? 0x800ed155 0 + 2148454741
4 ??? 0x800ed012 0 + 2148454418

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0xb80bcd30 ecx: 0x74437572 edx: 0x00000002
edi: 0x74437572 esi: 0x80308630 ebp: 0xb7fffa08 esp: 0xb7fff9d0
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010202 eip: 0xb80bcd58 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x74437572

Binary Images:
0xb8000000 - 0xb81d7fe7 translate ??? (???) /usr/libexec/oah/translate

Translated Code Information:
Rosetta Version: 21.03
Args: /Applications/Civ III Complete/Civilization 3 Complete.app/Contents/MacOS/Civilization 3 Complete -psn_0_10787401
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)

Thread 0: Crashed (0xb7fff9d0, 0xb80bcd58)
0x00aa3eac: /Applications/Civ III Complete/Civilization 3 Complete.app/Contents/MacOS/Civilization 3 Complete : _receive_samples + 584596
0x00aa3f08: /Applications/Civ III Complete/Civilization 3 Complete.app/Contents/MacOS/Civilization 3 Complete : _receive_samples + 584688
0x8fc13834: /usr/lib/dyld : ImageLoaderMachO::doModInitFunctions(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&) + 256
0x8fc0f248: /usr/lib/dyld : ImageLoader::recursiveInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, unsigned int) + 388
0x8fc0f36c: /usr/lib/dyld : ImageLoader::runInitializers(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&) + 64
0x8fc03848: /usr/lib/dyld : dyld::initializeMainExecutable() + 136
0x8fc08144: /usr/lib/dyld : dyld::_main(mach_header const*, unsigned long, int, char const**, char const**, char const**) + 3424
0x8fc01774: /usr/lib/dyld : dyldbootstrap::start(mach_header const*, int, char const**, long) + 992
0x8fc01048: /usr/lib/dyld : __dyld_start + 60
0x00000000: /Applications/Civ III Complete/Civilization 3 Complete.app/Contents/MacOS/Civilization 3 Complete : + 0

PPC Thread State
srr0: 0x00000000 srr1: 0x00000000 vrsave: 0x00000000
cr: 0xXXXXXXXX xer: 0x00000000 lr: 0x0001e11c ctr: 0x90010008
r00: 0xffeb000a r01: 0xbfffdfe0 r02: 0x74437572 r03: 0x8fc327a0
r04: 0x00000000 r05: 0x8fc327a0 r06: 0x00000214 r07: 0x00000214
r08: 0x00000214 r09: 0x01cbc874 r10: 0x00aa6417 r11: 0x22000042
r12: 0x90010008 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x8fc373ec r15: 0x8fc373ec
r16: 0x8fc273ec r17: 0x00001e00 r18: 0x8fc273ec r19: 0x8fc23740
r20: 0x00000012 r21: 0x000016e0 r22: 0x00000002 r23: 0x8fc346b0
r24: 0x000000b6 r25: 0x000012f0 r26: 0x8fc327a0 r27: 0x00000000
r28: 0x0000147c r29: 0x8fc327a0 r30: 0xbfffdfe0 r31: 0x00aa3c08

I have tried deleting and reloading both the Application Support and Application files from the disk and Time Machine, and still nothing works. Any help on this problem would be greatly appreciated.

 

[AlanH]

Hello, welcome.

What version of Quicktime do you have? The latest Leopard version was 7.6.2, I think.

This sounds a bit like the problems that arose when Apple released Quicktime version 7.6. At that time, Aspyr produced a set of updated applications to fix it, however, those files no longer exist on their server. So either the newer version of Quicktime doesn't need the fix, or Aspyr screwed up and removed some useful files.

I've raised a ticket with Aspyr to ask what the situation is.

UPDATE

Here is Aspyr's reply:

Hello Alan,

Thank you for contacting Aspyr Tech Support!

With recent software updates available, the Quicktime 7.6 fixes are no longer necessary for our titles. If there are present issues occurring, we encourage our customers to submit tickets on our website so that we will happily address and resolve them.

Feel free to contact us with any further comments or issues.

Thank you,

Aspyr Tech Support

So you had better contact them.

 

[Apache28]

Thanks Alan,

I have Quicktime version 7.6.4 running on my Mac - I will see if there is a newer version and contact Aspyr myself as well.

 

[AlanH]

Quicktime 7.6.4 should be fine. If it isn't working then Aspyr Support is the place to go.

 

[tao]

It works on my MacPro with both 10.5.8 (QuickTime 7.6.4) and 10.6.1.