Fixed my crashing saved game :)

[Steve@Work]

I was playing the Earth scenario as the Romans and the game got progessively slower as it went on before finally crashing and restarting the whole system after about 1700AD. I tried reloading my own save and the autosave but always with the same result -BSOD as soon as I tried to move a unit. I use Skype and have a VOIP phone, which I have always left running, but in offline mode. Last night I exited both Skype and the VOIP connection and flushed my system memory - Voila! I loaded the game and was able to complete the game a few hours later for my first victory. I read somewhere on here that the game takes over the mic and the VOIP phone is installed as a mic device so maybe it had something to do with it. Flushing my memory gave me an additional 250MB to play with so it could have been that also.

Specs:
AMD64 3400+
1GB Ram
Geforce 6600 256MB
SB Live
XP Pro SP2

Game was played at 1280*1024 with everything set to high.

Steve