Fix for (rare) crash when launching the shuttle!

[Melhisedek]

Hi mates!
Well I just did my space race today and wanted to see how it would look, but all I got was strange crash to desktop :/ Thought it was mods, so I reinstalled (got to clear the registry too) but still the same problem. So I did a search here on the forum and there was like 3-4 threads about the problem, none with the fix.

Obviously game tries to show race.bik from CivIII/Art/Movies folder... I'm playing Conquests and checked for a Movies folder in Conquest/Art folder... There was none. I copied it there and lo and behold I got my ending movie

I didn't install Civ at C: but at E: so that might be a cause of it all. Anyway I hope this helps at least someone

 

[Ginger_Ale]

The Tech Support FAQ also has some other possible fixes, but it is nice to know you got a way around it.

 

[Melhisedek]

Well it is nicer to watch the movie
Anyway I'm not sure if my fix was just a fluke, so I'll have to wait for someone to confirm it. I had similar crashing problems when I installed some heads mod. Thing is, mod was made for Civ3 vanilla only and didn't have heads of policeman for example... So when I changed workers faces around it would crash after scientist...
Someone explained to me why (didn't know that heads mod was Civ3 only) so I tried same thing with this movie file and it worked