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When I try to start up Civ4 (BtS,3.17, though it's been doing it for months) it stops loading at init engine about 90% of the time. But when I close the program and then start it again, it loads up fine, 100% of the time. So it isn't game breaking, it's just weird. Anyone have an idea what could cause this?
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Well, under my previous notebook something similar happened during the CD check. That got progressively worse over time until I resorted to a highly unoffical workaround.
I was able to determine after I bought my current machine that:
1. The DVD hardware to that prior machine had gone bad.
2. AND some sectors of the BTS CD had also gone bad including sectors of cab2.dat or something similar. (I had kept the BTS disk in the drive at all times prior to that ahem unoffical workaround.)1st C3DG Term 7 Science Advisor 1st C3DG Term 8 Domestic Minister
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Could be the XML cache (maybe it fails the cache after the bad restart, and loads uncached)?
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Thanks for the replies. Tried the shift-key thing, it only made things worse.
Oh well, it's just an extra minute to start up, I'll deal.
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