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Alphaman posted 04-18-99 12:41 PM ET
HOW DO I FIX THE PROGRAM FROM CRASHING ALL THE TIME. is 350megs enough space for the swap files or do i need like 4 gigs.
why why why does someone not fix this crappy .exe file already. it is clear that a LOT of people are having trouble with it. and the patches arent helping either.
anyone have any tips for me???
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 04-18-99 01:14 PM ET
At what point is it crashing? During the game or at startup? If during the game, and you've got 350 megs free, make sure that space is defragmented, which can limit the amount that the swapfile can effectively use. Also, don't specify an exact swapfile size, and let windows manage it.
jkm
firaxis games
Olag25 posted 04-18-99 09:58 PM ET
This is the error i'm getting...
Any tips for me?? It crashes at the same time all the time!!
TERRAN caused an invalid page fault in
module TERRAN.EXE at 015f:0056df41.
Registers:
EAX=00b61074 CS=015f EIP=0056df41 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000040 SS=0167 ESP=00bf531c EBP=00bf544c
ECX=00000006 DS=0167 ESI=00000006 FS=1237
EDX=00944c30 ES=0167 EDI=0000000a GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
84 98 1c 11 97 00 74 11 8b 4d 08 8a 80 1b 11 97
Stack dump:
00000000 00975f15 00000006 6b6c6953 65657473 6553206c 6e69746e 00736c65 00bf53a4 00bf5380 00466786 00bf53a4 00bf5360 023e04dc 00000044 00000000
Alphaman posted 04-19-99 08:27 AM ET
It crashes during the game and, just like for Olag it is at the exact same place every time (that is i can start a new game but it will not get too far before crashing in the same spot again) windows is handling virtual memory and the space is relatively defragged.
Joe
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 04-19-99 09:57 AM ET
Send a save to [email protected]. Again, historically these are virtual memory problems, but send them anyway. If it works here, I'll return a save of the following turn.
jkm
firaxis games
Alphaman posted 04-22-99 04:01 AM ET
I have renamed the sound.dll file to sound.dl_ This helped me to squeeze another few turns out of the game, (just when I thought: "thank god its fixed"). However the problem still remains. I will try one more thing before I email the save to you. I'm going to format my c: drive completely and reinstall Win98 followed by SMAC. I will put my old save file in and see if this helps. I will let you know how I go.
Joe
Alphaman posted 04-22-99 04:01 AM ET
I have renamed the sound.dll file to sound.dl_ This helped me to squeeze another few turns out of the game, (just when I thought: "thank god its fixed"). However the problem still remains. I will try one more thing before I email the save to you. I'm going to format my c: drive completely and reinstall Win98 followed by SMAC. I will put my old save file in and see if this helps. I will let you know how I go.
Joe
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Author	Topic: TERRAN.EXE
Alphaman	posted 04-18-99 12:41 PM ET HOW DO I FIX THE PROGRAM FROM CRASHING ALL THE TIME. is 350megs enough space for the swap files or do i need like 4 gigs. why why why does someone not fix this crappy .exe file already. it is clear that a LOT of people are having trouble with it. and the patches arent helping either. anyone have any tips for me???
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 04-18-99 01:14 PM ET At what point is it crashing? During the game or at startup? If during the game, and you've got 350 megs free, make sure that space is defragmented, which can limit the amount that the swapfile can effectively use. Also, don't specify an exact swapfile size, and let windows manage it. jkm firaxis games
Olag25	posted 04-18-99 09:58 PM ET This is the error i'm getting... Any tips for me?? It crashes at the same time all the time!! TERRAN caused an invalid page fault in module TERRAN.EXE at 015f:0056df41. Registers: EAX=00b61074 CS=015f EIP=0056df41 EFLGS=00010202 EBX=00000040 SS=0167 ESP=00bf531c EBP=00bf544c ECX=00000006 DS=0167 ESI=00000006 FS=1237 EDX=00944c30 ES=0167 EDI=0000000a GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 84 98 1c 11 97 00 74 11 8b 4d 08 8a 80 1b 11 97 Stack dump: 00000000 00975f15 00000006 6b6c6953 65657473 6553206c 6e69746e 00736c65 00bf53a4 00bf5380 00466786 00bf53a4 00bf5360 023e04dc 00000044 00000000
Alphaman	posted 04-19-99 08:27 AM ET It crashes during the game and, just like for Olag it is at the exact same place every time (that is i can start a new game but it will not get too far before crashing in the same spot again) windows is handling virtual memory and the space is relatively defragged. Joe
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 04-19-99 09:57 AM ET Send a save to [email protected]. Again, historically these are virtual memory problems, but send them anyway. If it works here, I'll return a save of the following turn. jkm firaxis games
Alphaman	posted 04-22-99 04:01 AM ET I have renamed the sound.dll file to sound.dl_ This helped me to squeeze another few turns out of the game, (just when I thought: "thank god its fixed"). However the problem still remains. I will try one more thing before I email the save to you. I'm going to format my c: drive completely and reinstall Win98 followed by SMAC. I will put my old save file in and see if this helps. I will let you know how I go. Joe
Alphaman	posted 04-22-99 04:01 AM ET I have renamed the sound.dll file to sound.dl_ This helped me to squeeze another few turns out of the game, (just when I thought: "thank god its fixed"). However the problem still remains. I will try one more thing before I email the save to you. I'm going to format my c: drive completely and reinstall Win98 followed by SMAC. I will put my old save file in and see if this helps. I will let you know how I go. Joe