3 Technical problems in running Civ3.

[Huntred]

Re: Re: 3 Technical problems in running Civ3.

Originally posted by jglidewell


On windows you can select how much hardware acceleration you use. I had a similiar porblem to this with Railroad Tycoon. After adjusting the acceleration to a minimum there were no more troubles and the screen would show normal.

I uninstalled and reinstalled Civ3 w/ a reboot between - just in case a font didn't copy correctly.

I adjusted hardware accel to none (ugh - that won't help the framerates in AvP2.. ). Windows wanted to do one of those quickie reboots but it had a minor lockup so I had to reset. Same issue with the fonts. I swtiched back to "full" and the quickie reboot worked.

Thanks though - that was a good one. I forgot that buddy of mine has all sorts of weirdness if he sets his Radeon VE more than a couple notches past "none". Computers are so...interesting.

[LdyMox]

Also if I try to build a city it says" Unable to allocate bufffer. Terminating program" and then the program well terminates. I never had aany graphic card problems. I'll try playing with the hardware acelleration some.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by LdyMox
Also if I try to build a city it says" Unable to allocate bufffer. Terminating program" and then the program well terminates. I never had aany graphic card problems. I'll try playing with the hardware acelleration some.

Sounds like a memory problem...how much free HD space you got? You need at least 50 meg. But I'm a techno-idiot so don't trust me.

Thanks for the response Dan, link would be appreciated...will try it when I get home tonight.

Also...is Firaxis going to set something up for constructive feedback for future patches?

Cheers.

[Huntred]

Originally posted by rockville
In case you didn't see this in the other thread that you started on this...

Are you using a desktop theme? If you change your desktop settings back to the defaults does the problem remain?

No real scheme - I think it's stock (or stockish) colors with a black background. Modest (~12) shortcuts. No active desktop features turned on. It's my very boring computer.
(The still-delayed flagship machine is a based off an EPoX-8KHA+ so I've got problems all around).

BTW - please folks, don't get bitter or panicy about this. I don't think there's a mass problem with the game as judged by the number of people in the general thread who seem to be having a good ole time. This is affecting just a couple folks - and believe me, it's definitely my week for machine rebellion (don't ask about my Tivo either)...

[Huntred]

Originally posted by LdyMox
Also if I try to build a city it says" Unable to allocate bufffer. Terminating program" and then the program well terminates. I never had aany graphic card problems. I'll try playing with the hardware acelleration some.

FYI - I have the exact same problem. I hadn't tried to build a city before - I was too busy walking around.

I have 279MB free (it's not much but I'm in a big state of transition right now). Windows is managing the swap file.

Please let me know if you get a solution sent to you - pooky@smart.net I'll do the same to Tammy@wodgraphics

Thanks.

[Gramphos]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Preferences Menu

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
All fonts in my Internet Explorer tend to start looking like that "bold, sans serif" that are present in both of his screens when I've got too much going on in my machine at once.

Dan

I've had that problem as well. Both when memory runs low, and when I increased the res to some very big and still run on a high frequency. I don't remember exactly what (and I'll not try to reproduce it.)

[Dan Magaha FIRAXIS]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Sounds like a memory problem...how much free HD space you got? You need at least 50 meg. But I'm a techno-idiot so don't trust me.

Thanks for the response Dan, link would be appreciated...will try it when I get home tonight.

Also...is Firaxis going to set something up for constructive feedback for future patches?

Cheers.

Boris,

The trusty 'Poly forums here wouldn't let me attach the file (it's really small, but the extension isn't allowed), so I put it up on our website. Just note the standard legal mumbo-jumbo; this isn't an official patch, we don't support this, etc.

http://www.firaxis.com/directx.cpl

Follow the instructions I laid out above, you may find your debugging level set high on one or more DX components. Turning them to off should increase performance, but your mileage may vary.


Dan

[LdyMox]

Ok still having the text/city building problem. p.s. the error says draw-buffer not just buffer error


I tried every hardware acceleration. I have plenty of memory (256MB) and I tried running it with as many other background programs off). I have over 3 Gigs of free harddrive space

p.s. this version I have is from the limited edition tin

[LdyMox]

What do I do with directx.cpl?

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS


Boris,

The trusty 'Poly forums here wouldn't let me attach the file (it's really small, but the extension isn't allowed), so I put it up on our website. Just note the standard legal mumbo-jumbo; this isn't an official patch, we don't support this, etc.

http://www.firaxis.com/directx.cpl

Follow the instructions I laid out above, you may find your debugging level set high on one or more DX components. Turning them to off should increase performance, but your mileage may vary.


Dan

[Dan Magaha FIRAXIS]

Originally posted by LdyMox
What do I do with directx.cpl?

Doh! Didn't realize the message with the instructions didn't go through because of the attachment.

You need to copy the file into your [WINDOWS]/System32 directory, then you will have a "DirectX" control panel applet available. Open it up and you should be able to click around on the tabs in there and see if debugging levels are turned on for various components of DirectX (sound, 3D, etc.) Turn them to "Off" and you should see some performance gain, especially if you're using an older/slower PC.

Dan

[Huntred]

Originally posted by LdyMox

p.s. this version I have is from the limited edition tin

Same. Figured it would be useful for hauling Christmas cookies.

[LdyMox]

I didn't do anything in the [WINDOWS]/System32 so I tried the [WINDOWS]/System folder and got the control panel DirectX applet. So far any changes have not helped. But I have not tried them all.

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS


Doh! Didn't realize the message with the instructions didn't go through because of the attachment.

You need to copy the file into your [WINDOWS]/System32 directory, then you will have a "DirectX" control panel applet available. Open it up and you should be able to click around on the tabs in there and see if debugging levels are turned on for various components of DirectX (sound, 3D, etc.) Turn them to "Off" and you should see some performance gain, especially if you're using an older/slower PC.

Dan

[Koyaanisqatsi]

I'm having the exact same problem, but in addition, the game also crashes if I try to start a new game as soon as I finish with the custom world screen. If I quick start it gets into the game, but I still have the other problems.

Athlon 600
DX8a
Radeon AIW driver ver. 4.13.7075
WinME
6+GB free, 512MB RAM
Lucidia Sans is installed correctly

[Koyaanisqatsi]

On the crash after the world screen, debugger reports:

Unhandled exception in Civilization3.exe: 0xC0000094: Integer Divide by Zero

Context is Civilization3! 005626C8()

[LdyMox]

Mine also crashes after making a custom world. Gee I feel like a Beta tester

Originally posted by dv8ed
I'm having the exact same problem, but in addition, the game also crashes if I try to start a new game as soon as I finish with the custom world screen. If I quick start it gets into the game, but I still have the other problems.

Athlon 600
DX8a
Radeon AIW driver ver. 4.13.7075
WinME
6+GB free, 512MB RAM
Lucidia Sans is installed correctly