Game crashes with space victory

[Eagle69]

This has been covered in the FAQ's but have tried the fixes but they don't seem to work.

When i get to a space victory the game crashes to the desktop any suggestions

thanks

 

[ainwood]

Does it give you an error message before it crashes? (eg. "missing entry in Pediaicons.txt") or similar?

 

[Eagle69]

No the intial music starts but crashes without error messages

 

[ainwood]

Well, if you hear the sound, setting the refresh rate manually might help (long shot).

See this post.

 

[Eagle69]

refresh rate?

 

[ainwood]

The number of times per second that your monitor screen redraws. The instructions are at that link.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=118126#9

 

[Eagle69]

Thanks I tried again with your instructions:_

Option 1: Look in your ..\Civilization III\Art\movies\ folder for a file called "Race.BIK". Rename this to "Race_Old.bik" or some other name. Make a copy of "intro.BIK" (or even "security_briefing.bik") found in the same folder. Rename it to "Race.BIK". Now you won't get the space race movie, but hopefully the game won't crash....

this work in the vanilla civ 3 but the game still crashes in conquests expansion,
there is a "Conquests.bik" file & "Victory_Movie.bik file" is the p[rocess similer to above?

 

[Chieftess]

What is the error message?

 

[Eagle69]

no message just crashes to the desktop

 

[Pentium]

I think yes. AFAIK Conquests.bik is the intro movie, and Victory_Movie the space one. Rename them the same way.

 

[Eagle69]

thanks for all your help guys i ended up deleting Victory_Movie file and it worked!!!!! yay renaming it didn't work

Thanks again!!!!!!

 

[Meshen85]

I love a happy ending