posted 03-22-99 04:56 PM ET     

I have tried everything that has been posted with no luck, from setting my graphics performance to 0, to turning off all sound, to minimizing the graphics. I am convinced that this is a game bug, as I can make it to this year in any new game I start, regardless of map size or whether the world is random or standard, and regardless of what faction I use.

I have a PII 266 with 128 megs ram
A Hercules Dynamite TNT video card
A Sound Blaster AWE 64

All drivers are up to spec. I have loaded version 3.0 of the game.

I still get this crash whenever I get to this point in the game.

I tried to e-mail a file to Firaxis, but have not gotten a reply, so either you guys are swamped, don't care, or are embarrassed about your inability to solve a problem facing so many people.

Please reply to this post, I have sent a number of e-mail to no avail, and am tired of starting games that crash just as I am finally way up the technology chain.

Take some responsibility Firaxis. This is not a hardware problem, but is rather the result of poor beta-testing.

What can I do to solve the problem and finish the game?

thank you,