I gave up on this game!
- Thread starter allan14
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I feel sorry for you, but if it makes you feel better I have never had Civ 3 crash on me, except after me altering the rules too much. Some people have reported problems with for example Windows XP and various graphic cards. To avoid such problems you should patch the game 
Tripa
Skaven Clan Head Council
Im still running my same PC its a P3 600. 128 ram. and i have had no trouble, what system are you running?
marshalljames
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I'm currently playing Pauls Saunders Discovery of the New World scenario on Marla singers huge world map.
I have a p2 350 327mb ram,W2k,patch 1.16 my turn seems to take 10 seconds and the puter's 10 to 20 minutes.My game sometimes crashes but if I re-load I've been able so far to carry on.
I have a p2 350 327mb ram,W2k,patch 1.16 my turn seems to take 10 seconds and the puter's 10 to 20 minutes.My game sometimes crashes but if I re-load I've been able so far to carry on.
I ALWAYS backup (save) at the end of EVERY turn. Some times, restarting from several turns before a crash occurs allows steps to avoid the problem, from what I have read in this forum. You can also reconstruct events in the game afterwards, and try bizairre and odd strategy and tactics at any point, by pulling up saved game files later. Personally, I feel its cheesy to use this to "cheat", but what one does in a solitare game is ones own business.
I had a major problem in Civ2, not sure if this was the cause, but once I had several hundred saved game files, the progam wouldn't list them all in the load game dialog, and soon after my system totally crashed, as in total disaster- had to rebuild the entire hard discs OS/file structure. The final crash occured in the middle of a game, on the second boot up after I noticed the failure to list the earlier save games in the load game dialog. I couldn't even boot up in Win 95.
Once I reuilt everything, and now in my new Win98 B setup with Civ 3, about every two dozen or so save games, I will go into explorer and move all the save game files out of the Civ folder and into a seperate place on the hard disc, totally seperate from the Civ exe location. I set up a folder for Civ save games and have sub folders for each century of so, depending on the era and the years per turn. THis makes it easy to quickly find files for specific years.
If you don't clean out things this way, and you do save every turn, the CIv3/Saves folder gets MIGHTY big at 2.3 meg per file or whatever the size is.
Goodluck, hope this could help. Not saying its the source of your problem, but it might help you recover from a crashed game and not lose all the time spent playing up to that point. I know what you mean, I am a slow player who micromanges to max results rather then depend on the goveners, so a LOT of hours go into a game, and it would truly suck to lose all that in the year 2020 or whatever.
I had a major problem in Civ2, not sure if this was the cause, but once I had several hundred saved game files, the progam wouldn't list them all in the load game dialog, and soon after my system totally crashed, as in total disaster- had to rebuild the entire hard discs OS/file structure. The final crash occured in the middle of a game, on the second boot up after I noticed the failure to list the earlier save games in the load game dialog. I couldn't even boot up in Win 95.
Once I reuilt everything, and now in my new Win98 B setup with Civ 3, about every two dozen or so save games, I will go into explorer and move all the save game files out of the Civ folder and into a seperate place on the hard disc, totally seperate from the Civ exe location. I set up a folder for Civ save games and have sub folders for each century of so, depending on the era and the years per turn. THis makes it easy to quickly find files for specific years.
If you don't clean out things this way, and you do save every turn, the CIv3/Saves folder gets MIGHTY big at 2.3 meg per file or whatever the size is.
Goodluck, hope this could help. Not saying its the source of your problem, but it might help you recover from a crashed game and not lose all the time spent playing up to that point. I know what you mean, I am a slow player who micromanges to max results rather then depend on the goveners, so a LOT of hours go into a game, and it would truly suck to lose all that in the year 2020 or whatever.
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