Freezes After Multiple Turns - Vista

[jollywood]

All of my scenarios work for a few dozen turns and then start freezing in random spots. Most of the time, the freezing occurs at the end of a turn, sometimes in the middle. I never had this problem using XP and will not revert back to that OS. Occassionaly, I can load previous save and change up my unit actions a bit. However, this rarely works and ALWAYS ends up freezing at a later spot. Any ideas as to how to fix this and continue my game?

System/Game Info:

OS: Windows Vista Home Basic SP1
Intel Celeron M CPU 520 @1.60 GHz
1.50gb RAM
32 bit

Game: Civ 3 Complete
The scenario I'm using is DyP
Patched up to 1.29f

 

[jollywood]

Has anyone else ran into this problem?

 

[Turner]

First off, I'm cringing at your system specs. I'm really surprised your computer loads Vista at all, let alone other programs on top of it. A celeron with a gig and a half of ram for vista would be like trying to tow a gasoline tanker truck with an Chevy S10 pickup....but anyways....

I notice you're trying to play DyP w/ Complete. Which game in complete are you launching? DyP had issues being played in Conquests, and usually that's what Complete players play is Conquests. You should be able to launch Play The World in Complete. That works best with DyP. Try that. You won't be able to load any games, you'll have to start a new game. But the ruleset should work better.

Or you could try Conquests version of DyP, Rise and Rule. Same guys, a bit more depth and complexity.

Lastly, make sure you're d/ling the full version, and not using the one on the disc. I seem to recall that when PTW came out, it had DyP installed as a matter of course (and a bunch of other scenarios) but because of some kind of copyright issue the publishers had to strip down a lot of stuff and we had to d/l the scenarios anyways. I don't recall if this issue was resolved for later releases or not.