Game on huge map locks up

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I've never played on the largest available map before, so I'd like to know if this is common.

I'm using the maximum number of AI civilizations and have reached year 1822.

The game locks up and won't proceed to the next turn.

Insufficient RAM maybe?

Or is there some other explanation?
 
yeah It usualy happens to me even on large, near the start of the modern era, but If i play on my laptop it seems fine.
 
How long did you give it? I have had 250x250 with 512 cities at times take a long time on the IBT.
Task manager says it is not responding, but in fact the turn does finish.
 
I've had IBTs last as long as an 30 minutes.

On my older, Win98 500 MHz 256 RAM (iirc) box, I had long IBTs. Part of it was self inflicted. I had railed my empire and set most, if not all, of my workers on Automated improvements. I had a fair number of workers. Somehow I had a stack of workers and I watched as the computer took each worker, one at a time, and tried to determine what improvements could to be done with that worker. If no tiles could be improved the worker was moved to the nearest city and did nothing. Seemed to take several seconds for each one, at least 5 seconds and maybe as long as 15. After that I fortified my workers outside of cities and the IBT went much, much faster.

More recently, and on a better PC, while playing CCM on a CCM-Huge map, I had the IBT take close to an hour when it was late Industrial Age and the AIs were building a lot of units and fighting their own wars. There were still around 20 to 25 (out of 31) AIs in the game, too, because I had a rather slow start. But CCM is a mod and that is not what you are playing.

So, to second what vmxa said, just wait it out. It will come back.

Though, I would save the game at the end of your turn, in case something else causes issues with your computer (BSOD, power cut-off, soda spill, two year olds pushing buttons, etc).
 
I cant see myself waiting 30 minutes to an hour to play a turn on a computer game. Especially in a single player game which has 100's of turns. :eek:
 
Yes, massive games with hundreds of AI units to move about will cause turn times to be very long. I doubt that your computer is locking up, Civ III isn't very difficult to run.

Your best bet would be to hit "end turn" and then grab a book that will keep you occupied. You could also find a stopwatch or timer and see how long it takes for the turn to end, that way, you could walk away and then come back when you know the turn should be over.
 
You'd think that by now, in 2012, games wouldn't take a long time doing huge maps like they did when the game came out in 2001. This seems not to be the case...
 
I just started playing the War of the World mod and it easily takes 20 minutes on the IBT. Time to check email, start dinner, serve dinner, eat dinner, do the dishes, take a nap, etc.
 
Yep IBT time can be very long late on a large map durring which time it looks like the game has crashed, leave it half an hour and if it still hasnt moved revert to an earlier auto save.
 
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