XP Hard Crash

[Ned]

I upgraded to XP Home. Now I have a hard crash, and many soft crashes, which seem more frequent with the no-CD hack. The hard crash occurs in my current game when I attack Dawn of the Planet with a Shard Dragonshere. Fungboy does not have airpower, so I do not believe the problem is the interceptor problem.

I disabled the mousewheel to no effect.

More on my computer: Dell P4 Dimension 8100. I have the most recent bios upgrade. ATI Radeon DDR (AGP) 32. Santa Cruz audio. 384 megs of RAM. All drivers upgraded to XP.

I see others here have a problem with XP Pro. I assume the problem with XP Home and XP Pro are common. So, if you guys have a solution for XP Pro, let me know.

I have tried disabling all other processes and have also tried changing the resolution. No affect on the problem.

I can e-mail the game to anyone who would like to see it.

Ned

[Ned]

*** BUMP ***

No answers.

Let me try this instead. Does anyone have SMACx working on XP without crashes?

Ned

[SITS]

Have you upgraded your chip as well? There is something in the readme about something like 'forceoldvoxel' that you can set for new chips like the P4.

I hope it isn't a common problem as I'm about to upgrade.

[Ned]

Sits, I discovered "that" problem about a year ago when I first got my P4. This is a new problem one gets with XP, which is the operating system one now gets with all new computers. We are all going to eventually have to use this system.

BTW, I have not had any crashes with my second game. This game varies from my first game in two ways. First, I have not used the no-CD hack. Second, I am operating on a Huge world, where my last game was on world four times larger than that.

Ned

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Ned
First, I have not used the no-CD hack.
Ned

I have heard some RUMORS about general anti piracy features in XP.

[Ned]

Lefty, Interesting. I will complete my current game with the CD ASAP and report back on crashes. Ned

[Ned]

Completed the game. Not one single crash!

Well, so much for the no-CD hack!

Ned

[Ned]

Next game lots of crashes - with the CD. The only difference is the map size. This one is 256x256. The crashes are hard and repeatable. One involved moving a transport away from the top edge of the map. Go figure.

Ned

[SITS]

Originally posted by Ned
Next game lots of crashes - with the CD. The only difference is the map size. This one is 256x256. The crashes are hard and repeatable. One involved moving a transport away from the top edge of the map. Go figure.

Ned

I've had that crash before at the edge of the map on Windows ME - in the end I just left the unit there...

[Ned]

Turns out, all units trying to exit from the top of the map caused the fault. I was able to recover, though, by simply putting the unit on full automatic. It exited on its own, and I then resumed control.

SITS. If you had the error on ME, was it also on a map larger than HUGE?

Ned

[Googlie]

I've been running on XP for five days now - only crash I've had was the uniy stall at the top of the screen. Just went back 2 turns into autosave and did't move it there

(It too was a 256 x 256 map)

Not running the nocd crack, though

G

[Ned]

Well, I completed a game with a Huge map with no crashes whatsoever. I am now playing on a 200x200 map. I am not getting crashes when a unit exits the map top, but I am getting crashes whenever an interceptor scrambles. I tried disabling the wheelmouse. No change. I tried changing resolutions. No change. I also tried changing the zoom to max zoom in. This worked, but only once.

I had similar problems with SMAC until version 4.0, and on SMACx under Windows 98 with my older PII from Dell. I had no problem at all with this P4 computer from Dell using Windows ME.

This is a real tough problem I suspect most of us will face as we upgrade our systems to XP.

Do you think that Firaxis will ever fix this bug?

Ned

[Deimos]

Originally posted by Ned
Do you think that Firaxis will ever fix this bug?

Yep. Right after the Cubs win the World Series.