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ggroman posted 04-27-99 03:46 PM ET
The program just frequently locks up while the computer is doing its moves. The only difference for me is the lockups generally occur during the year 2140 - 2165. I have a Intel Pentium II-350MHZ 64MB Ram, 2GB free space,ATI Rage 3D, ESS Business Audio card and running windows98. I was running windows95 last week, and it did the EXACT SAME THING. If I play an autosaved game, it will still lock up 9 times out of 10, even if I do different moves during gameplay. It's very frustrating. I purchased this because the demo seemed to work great on my machine, but the full blown package has BUGS! I've installed it with just the cdrom, and I've tried the upgrades available on this site, but it has made no difference. Please help!
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 04-27-99 04:36 PM ET
Is there any pattern to the lockups? Problems with v2.0 that resulted in lockups typically occured much later in the game (circa 2300 and beyond). Send a save illustrating the problem to [email protected] if you can reproduce it.
jkm
firaxis games
ggroman posted 04-27-99 05:36 PM ET
The only consistant pattern, is that is locks up! I've used various factions, planet sizes, difficulty levels, etc, but pretty much get the same things. I'll send a couple of saved games to you.
charlie_amacher posted 04-29-99 11:47 AM ET

After delaying my purchase until I had thoroughly exhausted the demo without a single problem I might add. I've been playing my copy of AC since last Sunday. Last night I finished a turn at year 2368, clicked on "turn complete", watched all of the other players make their moves and the game never returned. I reinstalled the game, rebooted the system, reinstalled DirectX 6.1, and went back and played from the autosaves of 2 previous turns. I also made sure that only AC was running on my machine. It always hung after "turn complete" in 2368. I have Windows 95B, AMD K6/233, 64MB, Matrox Millenium II graphics, and about 3GBytes free disk space. Any clues to what my problem is?
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Author	Topic: Another user who's SMAC locks up frequently
ggroman	posted 04-27-99 03:46 PM ET The program just frequently locks up while the computer is doing its moves. The only difference for me is the lockups generally occur during the year 2140 - 2165. I have a Intel Pentium II-350MHZ 64MB Ram, 2GB free space,ATI Rage 3D, ESS Business Audio card and running windows98. I was running windows95 last week, and it did the EXACT SAME THING. If I play an autosaved game, it will still lock up 9 times out of 10, even if I do different moves during gameplay. It's very frustrating. I purchased this because the demo seemed to work great on my machine, but the full blown package has BUGS! I've installed it with just the cdrom, and I've tried the upgrades available on this site, but it has made no difference. Please help!
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 04-27-99 04:36 PM ET Is there any pattern to the lockups? Problems with v2.0 that resulted in lockups typically occured much later in the game (circa 2300 and beyond). Send a save illustrating the problem to [email protected] if you can reproduce it. jkm firaxis games
ggroman	posted 04-27-99 05:36 PM ET The only consistant pattern, is that is locks up! I've used various factions, planet sizes, difficulty levels, etc, but pretty much get the same things. I'll send a couple of saved games to you.
charlie_amacher	posted 04-29-99 11:47 AM ET After delaying my purchase until I had thoroughly exhausted the demo without a single problem I might add. I've been playing my copy of AC since last Sunday. Last night I finished a turn at year 2368, clicked on "turn complete", watched all of the other players make their moves and the game never returned. I reinstalled the game, rebooted the system, reinstalled DirectX 6.1, and went back and played from the autosaves of 2 previous turns. I also made sure that only AC was running on my machine. It always hung after "turn complete" in 2368. I have Windows 95B, AMD K6/233, 64MB, Matrox Millenium II graphics, and about 3GBytes free disk space. Any clues to what my problem is?