Game unplayable on reaching the Modern Era

[GeneralTacticus]

Whenever I enter the Modern Era in any of my games and save the game, it won't load . It just sits for ages on 57% and when I press Ctrl+Alt+Del it says 'not responding'. Does anyone know what to do about this?

[steelehc]

How long is ages? Sometimes it takes me 2/3 minutes to load. Let it wait for a while.

Steele

[Thrawn05]

Re: Game unplayable on reaching the Modern Era

Originally posted by GeneralTacticus
Whenever I enter the Modern Era in any of my games and save the game, it won't load . It just sits for ages on 57% and when I press Ctrl+Alt+Del it says 'not responding'. Does anyone know what to do about this?

What are you system spec? That would help better understand your problem.

[Raion]

Got the lastet patch at www.Civ3.com

May have something to do with it.



Version 1.17f

Also, its a big game to load up in the modern age.

[Dis]

you're not missing much

[GeneralTacticus]

Well, I can't actually say how long the game sits for, but when I say 'ages', I meen the f*cking thing DOESN'T LOAD. The loading period takes longer and longer as I go further into the game, until it just stops in the Modern Age. I have the V1.17f Patch, so no having it is probably not the problem. How do I actually find out the system specs? I know I have Windows '98, how do I find out anything else?

[Capt Dizle]

Click on Start, then Run, type in dxdiag and then start writing down stuff. Sytem info, sound and display. Type this in notepad (start, accessories, notepad) and title it system info and place in My Documents in a folder called system info.

Paste it here. While you are in dxdiag, look at everything and see if there are errors. Post them here if you like and someone can probably help you.

Civ3's minimum specs are too low. As far as I am concerned its a pig and should be uninstalled, but take care when you do because it leaves crap all over the place.

I think you should buy SMAC and join the elite of TBS hardcore gamers.

[Capt Dizle]

One thing you can do is shut down everything running in the background memory. Ctrl-Alt-Delete and end task everything but explorer and systray.

That might help but if I were you I would UNINSTALL THIS PIG

[GeneralTacticus]

Well, the info I got was:
OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 98 (build 2222)
PROCESSOR: Intel Pentium III, ~800MHz
MEMORY: 128MB RAM
PAGE FILE: 86MB used, 1834MB available
DirectX Version: Version 8.0 (4.08.00.0400)

I think you should buy SMAC and join the elite of TBS hardcore gamers.

I already have SMACX, and I love it, but I also have Civ 3, and I like playing that too.

[star mouse]

Originally posted by GeneralTacticus
MEMORY: 128MB RAM

Although it's not needed for CIV3, you might want to spend a little money to get some more RAM. For less than you spent on CIV3, you could get another 128 to 256 Mb of memory and make your system run a bit faster.

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by GeneralTacticus
Well, the info I got was:
OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 98 (build 2222)
PROCESSOR: Intel Pentium III, ~800MHz
MEMORY: 128MB RAM
PAGE FILE: 86MB used, 1834MB available
DirectX Version: Version 8.0 (4.08.00.0400)

You sure do meat the minimum requirements. Make sure you are not running any other program, even the ones that are the system tray.

Also, are you able to load save game files in other games? If there is a problem with other games, your HD or somthing in between is currupt.

[Capt Dizle]

Its probably just the game. Adding another stick of ram may not fix it.

Try to send the file to someone and see if they can load it.

[Coracle]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
One thing you can do is shut down everything running in the background memory. Ctrl-Alt-Delete and end task everything but explorer and systray.

That might help but if I were you I would UNINSTALL THIS PIG

I guess we all keep hoping Firaxis will eventually get it right.

The reality is they will try to sell us a new edition with minimal improvements.

[reefer addict]

im playing on my wifes piece of sheep comp with 64k. never had a problem loading but the bigger the map, the longer the wait

[GeneralTacticus]

Also, are you able to load save game files in other games? If there is a problem with other games, your HD or somthing in between is currupt.

No problem loading saves from other games,or even from Civ 3 before the Modern Era. Here are the twi Modern saves I have.