Help on game replay needed

[gnomos]

For some reason my game replay feature doesn't work. When I win a game I get the reply screen, hit play, and nothing happens. The reply just sits on 4000 BC. When I hit play the button turns blue, but nothing happens. Does it take a long time to start if you have a lot of cities, or what? I waited several minutes for something to happen but nada.

[Gramphos]

It loads the full replay before it starts to show anything. On a large map late in game that procedure can take looooooooooong time.

[TinCow]

Yeah, it just takes a long time, keep waiting. If it's a big map and you've got a slow(er) processer it can take a long time. Just go away and do something, if it's already playing (or done) when you come back, just hit rewind and it will start over from the beginning.

It's a shame we can't save replays... you can only watch them that one time you finish your game.

[Ecthy]

yes, it is a bit fuc*ed up... thing is, last time I played and the reply wouldn't work, I messed a bit about the buttons... suddenly all city locations from the last game yer were shown on the 4000BC map, without any civ colors... that sucked

[opaque]

I always leave it for a minute before I press any buttons in the replay screen because otherwise my computer starts generating some sort of error report and then Civ 3 crashes and I lose my score.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Try having your pixels on a lower setting.

[opaque]

Well they are 800x600 on my desktop but they resize to something higher when the game launches.

[pauli]

try disabling the show event location button checkbox (or whatever it is) before you hit play. i find this makes the playback would a lot better.... it's still very slow though.