Kicked to Desktop as Computer Starts its Move

[John Barnes]

Bah - just as I thought I was finally winning on deity this happens.

CIVILIZATION3 caused a divide error in module CIVILIZATION3.EXE at 0167:0044a0c2.
Registers:
EAX=00000064 CS=0167 EIP=0044a0c2 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=01963a90 SS=016f ESP=00acf800 EBP=00000019
ECX=0000000f DS=016f ESI=0d42a200 FS=37e7
EDX=00000000 ES=016f EDI=07ee4934 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f7 3c ab 8b 54 24 14 03 d0 89 54 24 14 8b 54 24
Stack dump:
ffffffff 0d42a200 ffffffff 00000000 00000001 0000008d 00000000 00000019 07ec9170 0187de5c 000000ab 07ec9170 00000000 00536370 00000008 00000000

Running on AMD xp1400, 512 ram, win98.
Geforce2 32megs graphics.

Constant fault on reloading the saved position. Error occurs just as the computer starts it's move.

Huge map, 16 starting civs. Year of error 1892 (all techs discovered).

Have tried loading all the latest sound/graphics drivers as per the common faults in win98 threads (and turning off graphic acceleration).

Any suggestions to overcome this greatly appreciated.

[John Barnes]

Woops - should have said using 1.21f. My bad.

[zulu9812]

I take it this didn't happen with previous patches?

[John Barnes]

Don't know if it would have happened with previous patches. First time I have come close to finishing a deity game.

I can say I have never been consistently booted in the early stages of a game under either 1.17f or 1.21f.

Thought it might be a memory issue (win98 being leaky and all that). But boot happens on restart and reload as well.

Thanks for interest and input