posted 03-19-99 09:51 AM ET
After changing various settings, I can now play SMAC without crashing, at least on lower difficulty settings. (I haven't tried any higher ones yet.) However...After playing, my desktop comes back just fine, and other apps seem to work fine. But when I eventually shut the machine down, I get the Blue Screen of Death, with the message
A fatal exception 0D has occurred at
0137:BFF72A08. The current application
will be terminated.
When I restart the computer, it invariably comes up in 640x480 mode, even though I had been running in 1024x768. This is repeatable; it happens every time I play.
Config:
Dell Dimension XPS Pentium P200s
64MB RAM
900 MB free hard drive space
Matrox MGA Millenium video card with current driver update
ds3d=0 and eax=0 in .ini file
Hardware acceleration set to 0
Windows 95 managing my virtual memory