Is every game destined to crash eventually?

[Kramerman]

My game use to play fine, until recently when I began to tinker with mods. Now it crashes several times a day due to my trial by fire developng startegy. Does this cause problems? I mean, crashing to the desk top all the time, does it cause permanent problems with either the computer itself or the game?

Kman

[Palleon]

Originally posted by Kramerman
My game use to play fine, until recently when I began to tinker with mods. Now it crashes several times a day due to my trial by fire developng startegy. Does this cause problems? I mean, crashing to the desk top all the time, does it cause permanent problems with either the computer itself or the game?

Kman

Well, I haven't modded, except to enable lethal bombing on units, but that hadn't even taken effect yet, and it heppened before that too. It does appear to still use some system resources after it crashes to desktop, and sometimes at random, civ will reset my computer when it crashes to desktop. Other than that, it just crashes at a specific year, as seen in my save file. I went back to autosaves 3 years back, and it still crashes on that year. If anyone can get me through to the next year, I would really appriciate it, I've always had problems doing a naval assault, and I finally got a good 70 modern armors onto the enemies continent, and I want to destroy them all before time runs out

[Sanchez]

I don't this crash is OS related. I've seen people here and on other forums having the same crash problem on 98SE, ME, WIN2K, and XP. All of them reported sometimes having random crashes and then a crash at the exact same time during AI movement or right after the AI movement. I actually got this problem fixed by contacting every other civ before my turns end and the crash went away but it came right back after the following turn and the previous method did not make it go away again. I'm not running any mods, but just a custom huge map with 16 civs. I think we just have to wait for Firaxis to fix the problem because so far I have not seen any good workaround for this.

[Nicollo Rising]

XP 1 crash four months play.

1.21f over 1.17f. No mods.

[Pillager]

XP Pro
No crashes, four months play, 1.21f
No mods, just fiddling with the editor
MM Dualhead G400 - Not even any crashes when running two screens

[Archfalcon]

I completely reinstalled windows and civ3, applied the latest patch from firaxis and both games still crash.

I tried it on a win98 machine, and it still crashes.

I think it's a firaxis problem.