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Che_Fox posted 03-24-99 03:03 AM ET
I'm seeing lots and lots more crashes with Enhancement v3.0 than ever before. We're talking on the order of a crash every 15 minutes. This never happened before. These crashes seem unpredictable; I can load from the auto-save and continue on for another 10 turns or so, then the game crashes again.
I talked with folks from #alphacentauri on EFNet IRC, and they also reported many, many more crashes with v3.0 than ever before.
Here's a dump of the latest crash. This happened right near the beginning of a new game (~10 turns in) on Thinker, playing the University. A city had just built my first Recycling Tanks, and when I hit 'zoom to city', it crashed.
TERRAN caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff7a646.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=bff7a646 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=bff7a5af SS=016f ESP=00befe90 EBP=00befeb8
ECX=829b3c00 DS=016f ESI=829b3cc4 FS=4b47
EDX=00000010 ES=016f EDI=00ead37c GS=4b36
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 4d f0 5f 64 89 0d 00 00 00 00 5e 5b 8b e5 5d
Stack dump:
00ead37c 829b3cc4 bff7a5af 829b3cb4 00befe90 00befcc0 00beff9c bffbfe14 bff79260 ffffffff 00beff74 bfe17a68 829b3cb4 00000010 00ead37c 829b3cc4
Here's my system info:
Intel Celeron 300A (overclocked to 450, I hope that's not the cause of the problem; there were never problems with v2.0)
Windows 98
128M SDRAM
IDE hard drive (much space available)
Riva TNT w/ 16MB graphics card
SMAC with Enhancement v3.0
Sound Blaster AWE64 Value
Ben

Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 03-24-99 01:09 PM ET
This sounds like the TNT card perhaps. Try setting the HW acceleration to 0. Right-click on my computer, select properties, then performance, then graphics. Set the slider to 0 and see what happens.
jkm
firaxis games
TheUnforgiven posted 03-24-99 01:29 PM ET
I had the same problem with my Riva128-based graphics card. If setting the graphics acceleration to zero doesn't help, try going into NV3Tweak and enabling support for advanced instruction sets.
If you don't know what NV3Tweak is, then it's probably not the problem (advanced instruction set support is enabled by default, but some find faster gameplay when playing Quake II and other FPS' when they disable it).
-- Walker
[email protected]
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Author	Topic: Lots of crashes under Enhancement v3.0
Che_Fox	posted 03-24-99 03:03 AM ET I'm seeing lots and lots more crashes with Enhancement v3.0 than ever before. We're talking on the order of a crash every 15 minutes. This never happened before. These crashes seem unpredictable; I can load from the auto-save and continue on for another 10 turns or so, then the game crashes again. I talked with folks from #alphacentauri on EFNet IRC, and they also reported many, many more crashes with v3.0 than ever before. Here's a dump of the latest crash. This happened right near the beginning of a new game (~10 turns in) on Thinker, playing the University. A city had just built my first Recycling Tanks, and when I hit 'zoom to city', it crashed. TERRAN caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff7a646. Registers: EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=bff7a646 EFLGS=00010246 EBX=bff7a5af SS=016f ESP=00befe90 EBP=00befeb8 ECX=829b3c00 DS=016f ESI=829b3cc4 FS=4b47 EDX=00000010 ES=016f EDI=00ead37c GS=4b36 Bytes at CS:EIP: 8b 4d f0 5f 64 89 0d 00 00 00 00 5e 5b 8b e5 5d Stack dump: 00ead37c 829b3cc4 bff7a5af 829b3cb4 00befe90 00befcc0 00beff9c bffbfe14 bff79260 ffffffff 00beff74 bfe17a68 829b3cb4 00000010 00ead37c 829b3cc4 Here's my system info: Intel Celeron 300A (overclocked to 450, I hope that's not the cause of the problem; there were never problems with v2.0) Windows 98 128M SDRAM IDE hard drive (much space available) Riva TNT w/ 16MB graphics card SMAC with Enhancement v3.0 Sound Blaster AWE64 Value Ben
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 03-24-99 01:09 PM ET This sounds like the TNT card perhaps. Try setting the HW acceleration to 0. Right-click on my computer, select properties, then performance, then graphics. Set the slider to 0 and see what happens. jkm firaxis games
TheUnforgiven	posted 03-24-99 01:29 PM ET I had the same problem with my Riva128-based graphics card. If setting the graphics acceleration to zero doesn't help, try going into NV3Tweak and enabling support for advanced instruction sets. If you don't know what NV3Tweak is, then it's probably not the problem (advanced instruction set support is enabled by default, but some find faster gameplay when playing Quake II and other FPS' when they disable it). -- Walker [email protected]