Is this the F3 bug? or just one?

[MartynC]

Does anyone else have the issue of Pressing F3 to see the military screen & next thing being on the MS Windows desktop? Its a pain, mainly if the last auto save was a couple of turns before!!

I am playing CivIII Conquests Version 1.22

thanks

[Vince278]

I haven't had that problem.

[Dis]

Re: Is this the F3 bug? or just one?

Originally posted by MartynC
Does anyone else have the issue of Pressing F3 to see the military screen & next thing being on the MS Windows desktop? Its a pain, mainly if the last auto save was a couple of turns before!!

I am playing CivIII Conquests Version 1.22

thanks

do you get the pop up that asks to send an error report to microsoft?

I've had that a few time. I'll press F3, the hard drive will run for a few seconds, then that window comes up. I'll hit don't send, and then I'm back on the desktop.

I've been lucky with the auto saves lately.

And to think, I used to not use autosave feature

[dagta]

Yes, this happens to me very often. I now am in the habit of saving before pressing F3. I also try to go without looking at the military status screen unless necessary. I don't know what the exact bug is, but it has happened on every computer I've played Civ3 on since December 2001.

[Dauphin]

Curious, I've never experienced this.

[MartynC]

Re: Re: Is this the F3 bug? or just one?

Originally posted by Dissident


do you get the pop up that asks to send an error report to microsoft?

I've had that a few time. I'll press F3, the hard drive will run for a few seconds, then that window comes up. I'll hit don't send, and then I'm back on the desktop.

I've been lucky with the auto saves lately.

And to think, I used to not use autosave feature

I have never been asked for the MS Error Report popup screen in Civ III. At least the save & auto save functions work

[Dis]

I didn't get it in the game I just finished. So it's not often for me. Maybe once every other game at the most.

[MrWhereItsAt]

Re: Re: Is this the F3 bug? or just one?

Originally posted by Dissident


do you get the pop up that asks to send an error report to microsoft?

I've had that a few time. I'll press F3, the hard drive will run for a few seconds, then that window comes up. I'll hit don't send, and then I'm back on the desktop.

Isn't the report thing new with XP? I don;t recall ever getting it with my 2K machines.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Curious, I've never experienced this.

[dagta]

Yes, the "Report this to Microsoft" is a feature of XP.

I kept wondering why the F3 bug was never fixed and then I realized that it doesn't affect a lot of people. Hits me all the time. I suspect it has something to do with how you play. Something in how I build my military creates a problem often when loading that advisor.

[Purple]

Re: Is this the F3 bug? or just one?

Originally posted by MartynC
Its a pain, mainly if the last auto save was a couple of turns before!!

The game executes an auto save at the beginning of each turn, in my experience.

[Dis]

Re: Re: Is this the F3 bug? or just one?

Originally posted by Purple


The game executes an auto save at the beginning of each turn, in my experience.

it has in mine as well.

It was only recently I've been using autosave. It seems to save the last 5 turns or so.

[vondrack]

AFAIK, the problem was found to have something to do with spies... until you planted a spy with a rival civ, you were fine. Once there is a spy planted, the game may crash - it happened to me many times, too.

Autosave on.

[wilebill]

Using Microsoft Multimedia keyboard, does not happen to me. One possible thing to try is make sure you have the latest driver for your keyboard, assuming you can find one. This can be tough for generic keyboards. Try using a different keyboard also.

[Gramphos]

I don't think it's related to the keayboard you are using. However, I've never had that bug myself.