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I am having major problems with Civ3 on the following machine:
Windows XP
AMD 1.1 Ghz Cpu
WD 7200 Rpm HD
512 Meg SDRAM
Voodoo 5500 3DFX Video Card (Updated Drivers)
When I attempt to start a new game, with a huge map
and seven civ's the it loads, but as soon as I click the O on the
first pop-up the game exits. However if I click one of the highlighted information links to civlopedia like pottery and then exit out the game wont dump me out immediately. Loading with a standard size map seems to not dump me out as often.
Gameplay after I am in the game is fine, until I have played for a couple hours when the entire game with lockup for no apparant reason. If it doent lock up completely it will slow down to a crawl, and silly me thinking, I better save! When I try to load that saved game I get a data error.
I have tried reducing the hardware acceleration for my video adapter, lowered my resolution and changed it to 16 bit.
My wife has pretty much the same system as mine, same video, only 256k ram but instead of AMD she has an Intel 800 Mhz cpu and she has ZERO problems running the game. She also runs XP. IS this an AMD issue?
Windows XP
AMD 1.1 Ghz Cpu
WD 7200 Rpm HD
512 Meg SDRAM
Voodoo 5500 3DFX Video Card (Updated Drivers)
When I attempt to start a new game, with a huge map
and seven civ's the it loads, but as soon as I click the O on the
first pop-up the game exits. However if I click one of the highlighted information links to civlopedia like pottery and then exit out the game wont dump me out immediately. Loading with a standard size map seems to not dump me out as often.
Gameplay after I am in the game is fine, until I have played for a couple hours when the entire game with lockup for no apparant reason. If it doent lock up completely it will slow down to a crawl, and silly me thinking, I better save! When I try to load that saved game I get a data error.
I have tried reducing the hardware acceleration for my video adapter, lowered my resolution and changed it to 16 bit.
My wife has pretty much the same system as mine, same video, only 256k ram but instead of AMD she has an Intel 800 Mhz cpu and she has ZERO problems running the game. She also runs XP. IS this an AMD issue?
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