Civ III messed up my computer

[Thaddeus2]

A few weeks ago while playing Civ III it locked up on me and shut down. When I got back to my desk top, the screen was reduced in size and off center with this black frame around two of its boarders. As this had happened to me before when the game locked up and my screen had always returned to normal on rebooting, I wasn't much concerned. But this time the changes were PERMANENT.

I adjusted my monitor settings centering and enlarged, but the screen had become strangely blurred. To this day, letters are doubled lined and hard to read. When I run Civilization OR ANY OTHER GAME, the color is off and the the images are strangely blurred and fragmented.

Video seems to work fine. Although, it is kind of hard to say for sure, I don't think that it is my monitor.

Am I the first to have experienced this problem? Any suggestions?

 

[Mirv Sheelon]

I'm beginning to suspect that Civ3 wrecked my hard disk. I was playing a few weeks ago and every time I played Civ3 the hard disk started to get REALLY noisy and eventually died. I have just today identified that whenever I play, the next time I boot the computer up it updates my config files. Why? Is Civ3 doing something untoward? I'm beginning to think I'd better stop playing, as my company aren't going to replace a second hard disk. Anyone know anything about this???

 

[ebolav35]

Yes, I know what the problem is-Civ 3 is the biggest pile of untested crap I have ever wasted money on...I have never been this dissatisfied with what basically is a beta version of a game, and by far the worst 'tech support' (if you can call it that) I've ever encountered...I will NOT buy another infogrames product ever again...

 

[Thaddeus2]

This seems pretty unrelated to my problem. I wrote Civ III support and they told me that they couldn't help me. I did get the impression that they were trying to avoid taking responsibility but evidently my problem is not a common one because they never seemed to quite understand my explanation of what happened to my computer.

As a word of warning. Where I went wrong was in not rebooting after Civ first shut down on me. It was only after my third "fatal error" in succession that the damage was done.