Space Victory Crash

[Johnno]

So I played a Huge game and got to the very end, spaceship launch, the video attempts to play and it crashes to desktop.

I had no crashes throughout the entire game and no game play problems.

I'm running WinXP and have Conquests with Civ3 and all the latest patches.

I don't why it did this can anyone let me know if this at all common?

I have had many CIV3 victories in the past on my machine with winxp, this victory comes after me having a new hard drive installed and everything reinstalled.

Any help would be appreciated, I looked at the official civ3 site for know bugs, and here, but found nothing, I may have missed it but I did look.

Thanks
John

[Kloreep]

Have you tried to duplicate the crash by restoring to an earlier save and winning SS again, or has this only happened once?

Does the introduction video play okay?

[vmxa1]

I seem to recall that a corrupt dll is the problem. I just can't think of the name.

[Acemo]

Almost the exact same thing just haapned to me. I too had a hard drive replaced and I think this is the first time that I got the the space race vid.
I crash right after I hit the launch button. I tried everything I could think of, upgraded vid drivers, etc, but it just crashes and crashes. I might try and load an earlier save to see if the same thing happens. I have the intro vid disabled currently, I will also see if that will play when enabled.

*edit* the intro vid does play without any issues.

[Kloreep]

If it is the .dll, I believe Civ3 uses Bink. The file is called bink*.dll, where the * may be replaced by an extra character; check your Civ3 directory.

[Acemo]

thanks Kloreep, your tip was this difference. I deleted binkw32.dll from my conquests directory and then I copied the version of binkw32 from my play the world directory into my conquests directory (get all that?) and it worked fine, thanks mate.

[vmxa1]

Yeah that is the name, sorry I could not remember it at the time.

[Johnno]

I can't get it to work, I've tried sever al things and still no success.

Since the problem I have removed CIV3 and reinstalled it with Conquests. I replayed all the conquests scenarios and won and that video (conquests victory video) played fine no problem.

I downloaded Bink Video player and actually played the space victory video with it and it played fine. I downloaded and tried several other versions of binkw32.dll including trying what Acemo had tried with no success.

I again played a game (2nd attempt) all the way to the end and achieved space victory where you launch the ship but when the video comes on it crashes.

It still crashes. I can't seem to fix it.

[Grumbold]

I seem to have the same problem. I've tried the original binkw32.dll from the Civ CD and a couple of others sitting in different game directories on my PC, no luck with any of them.

[Grumbold]

Ok, I found a solution. Forget the bink file, just go to the /art/movies subdirectory and rename the race.bik file. You don't get to see the movie, but you can win the game at least