Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => The Theory of Everything => Topic started by: jankenheimer on May 21, 2015, 08:07:10 PM

Title: GoG.com version crashes after handful of turns
Post by: jankenheimer on May 21, 2015, 08:07:10 PM

Hello, apologies if this is in the wrong place.

I got the GoG.com version recently but have been unable to acheive stability. I tried all the usual .ini adjustments, eventually re-installing and then applying xp compatibility, yitzi's patch, and kyrub's patch (in that order). SMAC refuses to load at all, SMAX makes it to about 10ish turns in. I attached a test savegame, after loading it and after taking one or two actions I get immediate terranx.exe has stopped working. I understand that I may have applied patches I didn't need to or in the wrong order, but I just jumped back in yesterday after years away from the game so all these patches are new to me! :)

Also, here is my .ini file as it currently appears.

---Begin File---
[PREFERENCES]
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1
[Alpha Centauri]

ds3d=1
eax=1

ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1
DirectDraw=0
ds3d=0
eax=0
FastUnitAnim=0
SmoothUnitAnim=0
MainFontSize=16
InterludeFontSize=16
DisableOpeningMovie=0
Prefs Format=12
Difficulty=1
Map Type=3
Top Menu=3
Faction=4
Preferences=10111011111000011001110110000111
More Preferences=1110100111000101101000
Semaphore=00000000
Announce=111100001010101001
Rules=1101000001110
Customize=0
Custom World=2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,                               
Time Controls=1
Faction 1=GAIANS
Faction 2=MORGAN
Faction 3=DRONE
Faction 4=UNIV
Faction 5=BELIEVE
Faction 6=PEACE
Faction 7=HIVE
Latest Save=[removed]
Latest Scenario=
Main Volume=127
Voice Volume=85
Music Volume=63
SFX Volume=95
WindowsFileBox=0
DontResetBeginnerPrefs=0
[PRACX]
Disabled=<DEFAULT>
ScreenWidth=<DEFAULT>
ScreenHeight=<DEFAULT>
WindowWidth=<DEFAULT>
WindowHeight=<DEFAULT>
ZoomLevels=<DEFAULT>
ScrollMin=<DEFAULT>
ScrollMax=<DEFAULT>
ScrollArea=<DEFAULT>
MouseOverTileInfo=<DEFAULT>
ShowUnworkedCityResources=<DEFAULT>
ListScrollLines=<DEFAULT>
ZoomedOutShowDetails=<DEFAULT>
---End File---

Any help or ideas that the community has would be enormously appreciated! It's been awhile since I played SMAC/X and I'm amped to try out all the AI improvements in the new patches!

EDIT:: I suppose I should mention I'm on a laptop Win7 x64, Intel integrated graphics. Haven't tried updating drivers or anything

Title: Re: GoG.com version crashes after handful of turns
Post by: Mart on May 21, 2015, 08:18:37 PM

Yitzi patch (the recent one) have additional entries in alphax.txt, so it should be the last added.
As this patch is an exe modification, you would need only patches from Firaxis, that actually change/add some content of other files.
WinXP may be that patch.

Try chamging your ini file to:
---Begin File---
[PREFERENCES]
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1
[Alpha Centauri]
ds3d=1
eax=1
DirectDraw=0
....

Title: Re: GoG.com version crashes after handful of turns
Post by: jankenheimer on May 21, 2015, 09:24:45 PM

Thank you for the quick reply!

I tried adjusting the .ini, also tried a clean install with only yitzi's patch. Also tried changing the voxel algorithm setting to 0. Unfortunately, I can still only get a handful of turns out of it before a CTD.

Thank you for your help, though - I guess I'll have to try a different computer when I get home!

Title: Re: GoG.com version crashes after handful of turns
Post by: Mart on May 21, 2015, 10:05:46 PM

I do not use GOG version, but I have Win 8.1 64-bit. And SMACX works for me fairly stable.
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I just played the test.sav till 2131 with no problem.
It looks like some bad Windows environment