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Has anyone come across this mode of crash before? When my Civ is at a
reasonable size and into modern naval units, I have tried to direct one of
my ships to a point on the map that is off screen. As the direction pointer
hits the dark area, wham! It looks like an infinite loop is going on as I
have checked the system performance and the CPU is running at 98-99% I've
tried all sorts of application shutdowns with the Windows task manager
(WinXP), but the system is locked up and I have to power down.

Is this a bug? Are there any patches available?

vsyxx

 

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"Vsyxx" <vsyxx@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Has anyone come across this mode of crash before? When my Civ is at a
> reasonable size and into modern naval units, I have tried to direct one of
> my ships to a point on the map that is off screen. As the direction
pointer
> hits the dark area, wham! It looks like an infinite loop is going on as I
> have checked the system performance and the CPU is running at 98-99% I've
> tried all sorts of application shutdowns with the Windows task manager
> (WinXP), but the system is locked up and I have to power down.
>
> Is this a bug? Are there any patches available?

Which version of civ do you have?

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.games.civ3 (More info?)

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:17:10 -0400, "Vsyxx" <vsyxx@bellsouth.net>
wrote:

>Has anyone come across this mode of crash before? When my Civ is at a
>reasonable size and into modern naval units, I have tried to direct one of
>my ships to a point on the map that is off screen. As the direction pointer
>hits the dark area, wham! It looks like an infinite loop is going on as I
>have checked the system performance and the CPU is running at 98-99% I've
>tried all sorts of application shutdowns with the Windows task manager
>(WinXP), but the system is locked up and I have to power down.
>
>Is this a bug? Are there any patches available?
>
>vsyxx

I haven't heard of it before. I would try a complete uninstall and
then re-install with the latest patches. Or perhaps something
happened to the saved game. Or perhaps you have a hardware problem.
I don't have XP but I have been playing Civ for a couple years now and
have never seen that.

 

[Vincent]

Archived from groups: alt.games.civ3 (More info?)

"Vsyxx" <vsyxx@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:foDCc.106$ak6.4@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
> Has anyone come across this mode of crash before? When my Civ is at a
> reasonable size and into modern naval units, I have tried to direct one of
> my ships to a point on the map that is off screen. As the direction
pointer
> hits the dark area, wham! It looks like an infinite loop is going on as I
> have checked the system performance and the CPU is running at 98-99% I've
> tried all sorts of application shutdowns with the Windows task manager
> (WinXP), but the system is locked up and I have to power down.
>
> Is this a bug? Are there any patches available?
>
> vsyxx

Not sure if it is relavent, but for what it's worth.... All my
infinite-loop-like hangups went away (100%) after I added more memory. Was
running with 128MB, and I added 512MB more (also WinXP). That's more than
needed for civ3 (bought for something else), but it sure doesn't hurt. Make
sure to patch (to v1.29f) as well.

 

[Guest]

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It may be a memory issue. The one it hangs on has 256 MB. I don't think it
has hung up on the one with 512 MB. Sure a lot more required than the base
specs! The other thing I've been doing is just plain old computer common
sense anyway. Save and save often. I also avoid trying to point units to
offscreen areas later in the game. It may also have something to do with
available video memory. I don't have an upscale card.

vsyxx
"Vincent" <VincentLee@Do_Not_Send_eMail.com> wrote in message
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> "Vsyxx" <vsyxx@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:foDCc.106$ak6.4@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
> > Has anyone come across this mode of crash before? When my Civ is at a
> > reasonable size and into modern naval units, I have tried to direct one
of
> > my ships to a point on the map that is off screen. As the direction
> pointer
> > hits the dark area, wham! It looks like an infinite loop is going on as
I
> > have checked the system performance and the CPU is running at 98-99%
I've
> > tried all sorts of application shutdowns with the Windows task manager
> > (WinXP), but the system is locked up and I have to power down.
> >
> > Is this a bug? Are there any patches available?
> >
> > vsyxx
>
> Not sure if it is relavent, but for what it's worth.... All my
> infinite-loop-like hangups went away (100%) after I added more memory. Was
> running with 128MB, and I added 512MB more (also WinXP). That's more than
> needed for civ3 (bought for something else), but it sure doesn't hurt.
Make
> sure to patch (to v1.29f) as well.
>
>

 

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"Vsyxx" <vsyxx@bellsouth.net> wrote in
news:AIBEc.4853$MK4.2260@bignews2.bellsouth.net:

> It may be a memory issue. The one it hangs on has 256 MB. I
> don't think it has hung up on the one with 512 MB. Sure a lot
> more required than the base specs! The other thing I've been
> doing is just plain old computer common sense anyway. Save and
> save often. I also avoid trying to point units to offscreen areas
> later in the game. It may also have something to do with
> available video memory. I don't have an upscale card.

Do you have autosave turned on, it would seem to be appropriate if
you can't fix the actual crash problem.

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