PTW crash on bomber intercept

[drolltroll]

Every time I have a bomber shot down by an enemy jet fighter, my game crashes back to the desktop.

I am running Windows XP Home, on a P4 2.4 Gig, machine, with 512K of Ram, and a GeForce 4, mx440 video board.

I found an old post from Feb 13, that talked about a similar situation, but I haven't found anything about a fix yet. Does anyone know of a fix?

 

[Joe Steel]

I have Windows ME and have the same problem.It always crashes right after a fighter intercept. I am using patch 1.21 and it happens with the regular civ.exe with the cd in and with the no cd civ.exe. At first I thought it might be the no cd hack so I reinstalled my game and reloaded the save and play with the cd and some thing .I get an error message and then out to the desktop.I hope someone has a fix for this.

Thanks in advance

 

[TerraHero]

there are more bugs like these...i got it with an Tech once, once researched on that Date..it crashed...now aghain but with polution strike

 

[drolltroll]

I should add that I have reloaded the game from the save game file going back the the start of the turn, and going back two turns.

It doesn't seem to make any differance, anytime any bomber is intercepted by a jet fighter the game crashes. I also tried to go a two tuns forward by not using bombers, again when I used them and was intercepted, the gane crashed.

I have not gotten to modern warfare in another game yet but am about to, I'm reseaching rocketry right now, although I am ahead in tech, and I'm not sure where my opponents are.

 

[kykatastrophy]

Are you guys playing multiplayer?

 

[drolltroll]

In my case, no I am only playing single player. In my case monarch, standard map, pangea.

By the way, I've gotten to the point of jet fighter intercept of my bombers in my current game as well. This time it doesn't crash every time there is an intercept, but it has crashed twice.

 

[timberwolf4545]

I am having a much the same problem you guys are. My game crashes when my bomber is intercepted. But ONLY when I attack the Indian held city of Dallas. Not when I am trying to hit other cities. Any idea of what is causing this?

BTW - my game has everything out of the box standard.

Any patches I should try?

Tom

 

[Padma]

For PTW the fix should be in the v1.21f patch.

From the Readme:
* Fixed a graphics issue with bombarding and interception causing a lockup and graphics corruption.

For those who cannot use the PTWv1.21f patch yet, and for those playing normal Civ3, I think you are probably stuck with this "known bug".

Timberwolf: Down load the latest patch for your game here. And do it as soon as you can! The "out of the box" game had plenty of bugs!

 

[drolltroll]

Padma,

Thanks for the encouraging words, but it ain't fixed yet. I have the 1.21f patch installed.

In current game it does not seem to lock up every time there is an intercept, but it does still lock up often. The only solutuion I've found is to reload once an intercpt lockup occurs, AND THEN STOP USING BOMBERS. But I find this a terribly unsatisfying solution, as I do love my bomber fleets.