conquests broken?

[Andre]

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The last three times I played conquests the game has started acting
funny upon arriving at modern age. It starts hanging? I don't know the
term...perhaps skipping like a broken record, where you can't do
anything until it stops. Then if you open another city window it
starts the process over again, lasting up to two minutes or so. I have
version 1.22. I uninstalled the whole game and reinstalled it but to
no avail.
Any suggestions? I use windows xp pro, and I have more than enough
memory in my computer. I also tried removing all other programs
running in the background but that didn't help either.

Andre

 

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"Andre" <Deadbugs@softhome.net> wrote in message
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> The last three times I played conquests the game has started acting
> funny upon arriving at modern age. It starts hanging? I don't know the
> term...perhaps skipping like a broken record, where you can't do
> anything until it stops. Then if you open another city window it
> starts the process over again, lasting up to two minutes or so. I have
> version 1.22. I uninstalled the whole game and reinstalled it but to
> no avail.
> Any suggestions? I use windows xp pro, and I have more than enough
> memory in my computer. I also tried removing all other programs
> running in the background but that didn't help either.

Gonna have to do a little better on the description 😉

 

[Andre]

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The game simply gets stuck and you hear the sounds and the music
repeating themselves over and over again, unable to push through to
the next move. Eventually it finishes the task. After that if you try
opening a new city window or moving a unit it hesitates and the same
symptoms repeat. The opposing civs move without trouble, it only
happens when it's your move.


Andre



"The Stare" <wat1@not.likely.frontiernet.net> wrote in message news:<VGNld.4233$c11.329@news01.roc.ny>...
> "Andre" <Deadbugs@softhome.net> wrote in message
> news:1492a855.0411140739.5324620e@posting.google.com...
> > The last three times I played conquests the game has started acting
> > funny upon arriving at modern age. It starts hanging? I don't know the
> > term...perhaps skipping like a broken record, where you can't do
> > anything until it stops. Then if you open another city window it
> > starts the process over again, lasting up to two minutes or so. I have
> > version 1.22. I uninstalled the whole game and reinstalled it but to
> > no avail.
> > Any suggestions? I use windows xp pro, and I have more than enough
> > memory in my computer. I also tried removing all other programs
> > running in the background but that didn't help either.
>
> Gonna have to do a little better on the description 😉

 

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"Andre" <Deadbugs@softhome.net> wrote in message
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> The last three times I played conquests the game has started acting
> funny upon arriving at modern age. It starts hanging? I don't know the
> term...perhaps skipping like a broken record, where you can't do
> anything until it stops. Then if you open another city window it
> starts the process over again, lasting up to two minutes or so. I have
> version 1.22. I uninstalled the whole game and reinstalled it but to
> no avail.
> Any suggestions? I use windows xp pro, and I have more than enough
> memory in my computer. I also tried removing all other programs
> running in the background but that didn't help either.
>
> Andre

I get screen corruptions happening, and I cant move the mouse below the top
of the screen, but that happens before modern.
Never used to have a problem with vanilla 1.29

 

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"Andre" <Deadbugs@softhome.net> wrote in message
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> The game simply gets stuck and you hear the sounds and the music
> repeating themselves over and over again, unable to push through to
> the next move. Eventually it finishes the task. After that if you try
> opening a new city window or moving a unit it hesitates and the same
> symptoms repeat. The opposing civs move without trouble, it only
> happens when it's your move.
>
>
> Andre

I had that problem playing civ3 on an old PII-300MHZ. Solution was to get a
modern computer I now have a 2.8GHz P4 with 512 MB of RAM. I don't
experience that problem anymore.

GWB

> "The Stare" <wat1@not.likely.frontiernet.net> wrote in message
> news:<VGNld.4233$c11.329@news01.roc.ny>...
>> "Andre" <Deadbugs@softhome.net> wrote in message
>> news:1492a855.0411140739.5324620e@posting.google.com...
>> > The last three times I played conquests the game has started acting
>> > funny upon arriving at modern age. It starts hanging? I don't know the
>> > term...perhaps skipping like a broken record, where you can't do
>> > anything until it stops. Then if you open another city window it
>> > starts the process over again, lasting up to two minutes or so. I have
>> > version 1.22. I uninstalled the whole game and reinstalled it but to
>> > no avail.
>> > Any suggestions? I use windows xp pro, and I have more than enough
>> > memory in my computer. I also tried removing all other programs
>> > running in the background but that didn't help either.
>>
>> Gonna have to do a little better on the description 😉