Optimus
Chieftain
I am experiencing a weird thing in civ3 which I think is a bug. Here's my story 
My sys:
Celeron 400 oced to 500
256 Ram
Win XP
Voodoo3 3000 pci
Latest drivers, unpatched game
1.2 t-bird
256 Ram
Win XP
Geforce2 Mx (21.xx driver, prior to recent nvidia release)
All drivers up to date + civ patch (the good ver.)
I had my brother in law at my hous this week end and he decided to play some civ3. Being unexperienced he had to resart his games VERY frequently .
Then the Celeron 500 locked up or almost. still saw some movement ~1 frame per 15 sec. so I had him reboot.
All was fine, his restart frenzy was going along and then boom ! froze again. So I begin to doubt my sys. I tell him to play on my main machine the t-bird 1.2 on which I played endless hours of Civ3.
so he started again, still unsatisfied by his games he continued to restart alot. Usually plainf 10-15 turns or even less.
Then the unthinkable happened ! My Winxp box which never BSOD or crashed on me before DID ! !!! Had to reboot
So Having reproduced this on 2 compleatly different systems I now suspect the game to have some sort of problem with repeat restarts. Maybe this is something Firaxis want to look more into.
I would be happy to help (providing more info about the occurence or testing on my other computers).
I will now try to reproduce the problem with the updated Nvidia drivers. But since this happened on a sys with Voodo3 and the unpatched game I think it will still be present after the newer drivers.
Please reply if you have experienced the same problem.
It's a long process it take about 30 min of restarting every 10-15 turns but it does happen (on my system at least)
My sys:
Celeron 400 oced to 500
256 Ram
Win XP
Voodoo3 3000 pci
Latest drivers, unpatched game
1.2 t-bird
256 Ram
Win XP
Geforce2 Mx (21.xx driver, prior to recent nvidia release)
All drivers up to date + civ patch (the good ver.)
I had my brother in law at my hous this week end and he decided to play some civ3. Being unexperienced he had to resart his games VERY frequently .
Then the Celeron 500 locked up or almost. still saw some movement ~1 frame per 15 sec. so I had him reboot.
All was fine, his restart frenzy was going along and then boom ! froze again. So I begin to doubt my sys. I tell him to play on my main machine the t-bird 1.2 on which I played endless hours of Civ3.
so he started again, still unsatisfied by his games he continued to restart alot. Usually plainf 10-15 turns or even less.
Then the unthinkable happened ! My Winxp box which never BSOD or crashed on me before DID ! !!! Had to reboot
So Having reproduced this on 2 compleatly different systems I now suspect the game to have some sort of problem with repeat restarts. Maybe this is something Firaxis want to look more into.
I would be happy to help (providing more info about the occurence or testing on my other computers).
I will now try to reproduce the problem with the updated Nvidia drivers. But since this happened on a sys with Voodo3 and the unpatched game I think it will still be present after the newer drivers.
Please reply if you have experienced the same problem.
It's a long process it take about 30 min of restarting every 10-15 turns but it does happen (on my system at least)
