lroumen
Warlord
Hi everyone,
I tried to search the many help threads, forum search, but it seems not many people play hotseat or have allocated any bugs with it that I can familiarise with, let alone solved (m)any bugs. I guess it's time to ask my own question and hope someone has an idea about what's going on. Maybe it's a known issue and I missed it, in which case it's good to find out anyway.
Two days ago I tried to play a hotseat game with my girlfriend taking a small map with 1 AI. We got a long way saving in between several turns and we had a lot of fun trying to beat eachother in founding religions and growing cities the best way we could. Of course there came a moment that we needed a break and quit the game.
Now the problem arose. Upon reloading of our last save game we didn't get to the usual screen where it says it's initialising this and that, but we were stuck with the revolving planet and nothing else on screen. Loading up the auto-save didn't work either. We must have waited 30 minutes because we were able to finish the dishes and watching some weird program on the discovery channel in the meantime. Still the only thing on the screen was the revolving planet.
We stopped the load and after trying a few of the other save games we finally found that only the early saves in the timespan of roughly 2000 BC - 4000BC worked. Everything saved after this game time we were unable to load up, saves and autosaves alike. I started to read up on things, but so far I haven't seen anything helpful throught the various threads.
It was shocking how many people have problems. The only real problem I have is that the opening video won't seem to go anymore in v1.52 (it did run but stutter half a second every 10 seconds in v1.00), but that's probably related to my Radeon 9200 running on catalyst 4.12 drivers (I choose stability over upgrading), or my memory not being all too high (500MB assigned virtual memory on my C in need of an increase). Wonder videos are running well up till now.
I'm reading here that people are experiencing memory leaks. This is why I suspect that my lack of assigned virtual memory might be far too low and is giving us problems saving when the game has been up for a decent amount of time. I am, however, not enough of a wiz to know how I can test this. On the other side is it also strange if this were the case seeing as I've played the game for quite long periods of time in single player mode and haven't experienced similar problems yet.
At this moment we are playing a new hotseat but this time without an AI to see if we can finish it without problems. Perhaps hotseat won't perform well with an AI present. Btw, strangely my girlfriend gets 2 extra techs at the start of the hotseat whereas our difficulty level is the same and the race specifics don't give us the impression why she gets two extra. Funny enough this is why we started to try and beat eachother to the religions and are having a lot of fun outdoing each other.
Any suggestion for me would be nice.
Cheers
Luc
I tried to search the many help threads, forum search, but it seems not many people play hotseat or have allocated any bugs with it that I can familiarise with, let alone solved (m)any bugs. I guess it's time to ask my own question and hope someone has an idea about what's going on. Maybe it's a known issue and I missed it, in which case it's good to find out anyway.
Two days ago I tried to play a hotseat game with my girlfriend taking a small map with 1 AI. We got a long way saving in between several turns and we had a lot of fun trying to beat eachother in founding religions and growing cities the best way we could. Of course there came a moment that we needed a break and quit the game.
Now the problem arose. Upon reloading of our last save game we didn't get to the usual screen where it says it's initialising this and that, but we were stuck with the revolving planet and nothing else on screen. Loading up the auto-save didn't work either. We must have waited 30 minutes because we were able to finish the dishes and watching some weird program on the discovery channel in the meantime. Still the only thing on the screen was the revolving planet.
We stopped the load and after trying a few of the other save games we finally found that only the early saves in the timespan of roughly 2000 BC - 4000BC worked. Everything saved after this game time we were unable to load up, saves and autosaves alike. I started to read up on things, but so far I haven't seen anything helpful throught the various threads.
It was shocking how many people have problems. The only real problem I have is that the opening video won't seem to go anymore in v1.52 (it did run but stutter half a second every 10 seconds in v1.00), but that's probably related to my Radeon 9200 running on catalyst 4.12 drivers (I choose stability over upgrading), or my memory not being all too high (500MB assigned virtual memory on my C in need of an increase). Wonder videos are running well up till now.
I'm reading here that people are experiencing memory leaks. This is why I suspect that my lack of assigned virtual memory might be far too low and is giving us problems saving when the game has been up for a decent amount of time. I am, however, not enough of a wiz to know how I can test this. On the other side is it also strange if this were the case seeing as I've played the game for quite long periods of time in single player mode and haven't experienced similar problems yet.
At this moment we are playing a new hotseat but this time without an AI to see if we can finish it without problems. Perhaps hotseat won't perform well with an AI present. Btw, strangely my girlfriend gets 2 extra techs at the start of the hotseat whereas our difficulty level is the same and the race specifics don't give us the impression why she gets two extra. Funny enough this is why we started to try and beat eachother to the religions and are having a lot of fun outdoing each other.
Any suggestion for me would be nice.
Cheers
Luc
