Originally posted by IgrOK
I have two questions now:
1) Can I stop MapFinder program? How?
There are three ways to stop MapFinder:
1. Exit Civ3/PTW/C3C. Basically, MapFinder will stop whenever Civ3/PTW/C3C isn't running. Isn't that cool or what?
2. Whenever Civ3/PTW/C3C no longer the foreground application, MapFinder would also stop - another cool automatically stop feature. In this case, you can stop it anytime by hitting the Window key on your keyboard (that Window key can be located at the bottom left corner on the keyboard right next to the Ctrl key).
3. Whenver you Alt+Tab to another application, MapFinder would also stop. This is the third automatic stop feature.
That's it! Just pick one of those three.
2) My Conquest dont want to restart. "Run program" window appears but followed with nothing.
There are three possible problems:
1. After the "Run program" window appears, there will be a long delay after that. The reason for this delay is because I want to make sure that I give your system enough time for C3C to release any system resources before starting it up again. During this delay period, if you happen to launch another application or whatever, MapFinder won't launch C3C because it thought that you want your system back. IIRC, this delay time = (your delay for loading + saving) * 2. In most case, you will be sleeping while MapFinder running anyway; therefore, you won't be aware of this delay.
2. If you have been playing game for awhile, C3C could be dying before you launch MapFinder; therefore, when C3C goes down, it goes down hard and won't restart again until you reboot your system. Again, this only happen in C3C - I believe there is a memory leak in C3C, but I don't expect Firaxis to fix it anytime soon. Defending on system resources (like how much memory system system have), C3C may die a lot sooner than 40 or 50 iterations; in this case, try lower the C3C restart counter to 35 or something.
3. MapFinder assume that your Conquests.EXE is two directories up from your AUTO save directory. Please make sure you point it to the correct AUTO save directory of C3C or it won't be able to locate your Conquests.EXE file.