The Miracle Cure for Crashness

[Hydropsy]

Ok.

So I was tied up with many crashes-- after the choose map menu, trying to build first city (could only start game through quickstart), encountering other civs, all my text was overlapped or the advisor boxes were blank and the thing ran about as fast as a gerbil under something really heavy. Like a book. Hardcover. Anyway,...

I eventually decide to follow that silly advice that InfoG has on their website about shutting down all other porgrams (ctrl-alt-delete) and got everything up and running FINE.

OK, Ok,... so I'd even read this already on somebody else's post as a passing mention or something. More fool me.

I've narrowed it down to being one of three programs, (though I'm not even really sure what each one is):

HCDETECT
LEXPS
DIRECTCD

(that or there abouts)

The moral of my sordid tale of moronicity is that if you have one of these running, KILL IT.

And happy civving.

 

[CurtSibling]

This is in line with the old Windows (accursed Gates!) axiom!

ALWAY CLOSE ALL CRAP WHEN RUNNING A LARGE PROGRAM!!!

Any of you ever USE a computer!?!

 

[Red October]

I had to close down all of my programs AND move some fonts, but it's working now and it is AWESOME!!!

BTW, I have DirectCD too, maybe that's part of it?

 

[jayjay]

I wonder if there is any less stable program in the world than Direct CD... Whenever someone has problems on his/her computer and Direct CD is installed, it is almost certain it is involved somehow.

Remove it when you play civ and if you don't positively need it, remove it alltogether!

Just my exerience!

-JJ

 

[FearlessLeader2]

Actually, there's an even easier solution. Play on a smaller map. My 733mhz computer was gagging on Civ3, on a Huge map, but when I started a game on a Normal map, it ran fine. I'm kicking mondo ass in my first playable game (on the third level, figured I'd go easy on myself at first).

 

[A&A Gamer]

Actually I dont believe it has anything to do with the size of the map and speed. I use a PII 350 with 128mb and can run huge maps without any difficulty. Try a program called end it all. I believe I got it at zdnet a year or two ago. It will close ALL programs for you except that needed to run windows with one button. Including Anti virus programs. Close(disable) your screen savers also!!