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Cadfael posted 04-04-99 12:02 AM ET
While I chided everyone about their terran.exe problems prior to v3.0; I now know their frustration thanks to v3.0.
I passed my problems on to my son who confided that he had been seeing the same thing with v3.0, but he had found a solution.
I tried the same on my machine and, lo and behold, no more crashes or lock ups, at least not for over an hour's play and I had been crashing at least once a cycle prior to the change (no ironman possible here).
Enough chatter, the solution.
Re-install SMAC over SMAC with v3.0 installed. No echoing sound, thank you, v3.0, and now crashes and no lock ups.
Strange, but true.
Cadfael posted 04-04-99 07:34 AM ET
In retrospect, this should not work because all it does is overlay the revised terran.exe file with the original.
In addition, I had not played run the original game; I did not play it until I had loaded the original patch: I had never experienced a lock up of crash until v3.0 and I had never played a game without echoed voice overs.
If this is nothing but the original game (I notice that while my save game has the Bore Hole Cluster, the cutsie tri-lever covers are gone) the echoing sound is gone and I do not crash - I am happy.
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Author	Topic: US v3.0 Lock Ups and Crashes - Solution?
Cadfael	posted 04-04-99 12:02 AM ET While I chided everyone about their terran.exe problems prior to v3.0; I now know their frustration thanks to v3.0. I passed my problems on to my son who confided that he had been seeing the same thing with v3.0, but he had found a solution. I tried the same on my machine and, lo and behold, no more crashes or lock ups, at least not for over an hour's play and I had been crashing at least once a cycle prior to the change (no ironman possible here). Enough chatter, the solution. Re-install SMAC over SMAC with v3.0 installed. No echoing sound, thank you, v3.0, and now crashes and no lock ups. Strange, but true.
Cadfael	posted 04-04-99 07:34 AM ET In retrospect, this should not work because all it does is overlay the revised terran.exe file with the original. In addition, I had not played run the original game; I did not play it until I had loaded the original patch: I had never experienced a lock up of crash until v3.0 and I had never played a game without echoed voice overs. If this is nothing but the original game (I notice that while my save game has the Bore Hole Cluster, the cutsie tri-lever covers are gone) the echoing sound is gone and I do not crash - I am happy.