one of my computers seems to just be freezing randomly after a bit of playing (but not always). but after like the 4th game it had frozen on i decided to just let it sit for a while, and lo and behold up pops the diplomacy screen with alexander's head. except it was still frozen. there were some strange sounds, and then like every 4 minutes, the head would move and then freeze again. with much patience, i managed to click the options to get me out of the diplomacy screen. waited a couple more minutes... and the game returned to normal! the game froze again later when another diplomacy screen came up. so obviously the diplomacy screen is causing some sort of trouble on my computer. im not certain on this count, but it may be that it only freezes after-a-little-while because it takes a "bit of playing" before you come in contact with any other civs (in other words i think it would freeze the very first turn if i contacted a civ on the first turn)
some other symptoms of this problem. if i try to alt tab or alt ctrl del while the game is "frozen" (really it seems that is just moving very slow), then i get a blue screen about something like a memory dump or something (i cant remember because...), then it quickly restarts the entire computer. if i tried to reload the game at the last autosave, i would get the exact same problem... freeze
also, i have played a few games that had absolutely no problem with the diplomacy screens that i played all the way through to the end. so this is not a 100% repeatable problem. also i seem to be getting this problem more often in multiplayer lan games... but im not sure if thats true, ive just played more lan games than single player games.
is this any kind of known bug that anyone could help me out with?
i have a
Athlon 64
1 GB RAM
2 Geforce 6800nu running SLI
i posted this in http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=3250059 as well, but i think its getting ignored there, so i decided to make it its own topic
some other symptoms of this problem. if i try to alt tab or alt ctrl del while the game is "frozen" (really it seems that is just moving very slow), then i get a blue screen about something like a memory dump or something (i cant remember because...), then it quickly restarts the entire computer. if i tried to reload the game at the last autosave, i would get the exact same problem... freeze
also, i have played a few games that had absolutely no problem with the diplomacy screens that i played all the way through to the end. so this is not a 100% repeatable problem. also i seem to be getting this problem more often in multiplayer lan games... but im not sure if thats true, ive just played more lan games than single player games.
is this any kind of known bug that anyone could help me out with?
i have a
Athlon 64
1 GB RAM
2 Geforce 6800nu running SLI
i posted this in http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=3250059 as well, but i think its getting ignored there, so i decided to make it its own topic
