Anyone else get occasional game hiccup?

[Simplicity]

I've been noticing every now and then that game sometimes hangs for a good 5 seconds or so. Loopy music and all. And then poof. Goes back to normal. (Thank god no new crashes yet).

I never used to see it with vanilla Civ... Anyone else getting this?

(It's not all that often, I've only seen it twice now).

[rjwoer]

Speaking of loopy music, I ran into some kind of horrible sound file error during my end-game this morning. Whenever I selected a foreign city to activate my spy within, I got blasted by a scratchy distortion sound that faded away in about five seconds. This happened over and over again. No freeze or hiccup was associated with it, but I am trying to sniff around to see if I have a corrupted sound file in my Warlords install. Or maybe I just needed a reboot.

[yin26]

I have reported this as well. Please post anything you find helpful.

[alexman]

Originally posted by rjwoer
Whenever I selected a foreign city to activate my spy within, I got blasted by a scratchy distortion sound that faded away in about five seconds. This happened over and over again.

Is this reproducible from a save?

[DrSpike]

Sometimes when speaking to a leader my game freezes for 5 secs or so, but it's always done that.

[rjwoer]

Originally posted by alexman

Is this reproducible from a save?

I'm not sure. I just went back into the game using this save (I'll try to attach) and the error was not occurring. It may be that I just needed to restart the program. I'd been playing for several hours.

To clarify, the loud distortion sound didn't occur every time I selected my spy in a foreign city, but it happened on a very regular basis--maybe 50% of the time.

Feel free to check out my save file. I have three spies in the English cities (Nottingham, and two others--sorry can't remember names off hand).

EDIT: The forum isn't yet accepting Warlords save files, so I'll put it up on my own domain: http://www.rjwoerheide.com/temporary/RobertAD2040.zip

[Arrian]

Occasionally Nemoy's voiceover for the discovery of a tech will skip/loop a few times like a broken record, but it always rights itself.

-Arrian

[DrSpike]

If like me you just accept all the techs you get in trades together you can get him to say lots at the same time and that sounds kinda weird too.

[pauli]

i'm having issues with the game flashing all terrain black every turn.

[Willem]

This is not an occasional hiccup but happens everytime I play. Whenever I start a new game using the Single Player option, the game automatically defaults to the Warlords Scenarios selector, not the selector I last cose. I find it a bit annoying because I always have to scroll up to Play Now.

[Akaoz]

From time to time, esp during heavy air bombardment, the sound will go totaly over the top. I get a terrible scratching/white noise that lasts a few seconds, before the game moves on.

[rjwoer]

Originally posted by Akaoz
From time to time, esp during heavy air bombardment, the sound will go totaly over the top. I get a terrible scratching/white noise that lasts a few seconds, before the game moves on.

That "terrible scratching/white noise that lasts a few seconds" is exactly what I experienced. I'm wondering if maybe it is something more than simply needing to restart? (see above for save file.)

[Timmer]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Sometimes when speaking to a leader my game freezes for 5 secs or so, but it's always done that.

This happens to me whenever world maps are
traded. It's because the game needs a short while
to adjust the world map and the visible terrain.

[DrSpike]

Yeah that is the most common driver for it to occur but it also happens other times to me.

[Akaoz]

I also get lag when trading world maps. I'm assuming that's because it requiers a big update of the game map.