Great New Idea!

[Sem]

How about a CivIII that doesn't crash or freeze, unlike smac & smacx?

[chatgr]

Smac does freeze.
Fortunately with autosave
you never lose more than 5 minutes play
[This message has been edited by chatgr (edited August 09, 2000).]

[Adm.Naismith]

SMACX frooze often on my PC, and having the autosave BUT keeping freezing the same game every time on the same turn I lost some 50/80 turns game, not minutes

To be fair, I was trying the SMACX demo version, but you can forgive me if I didn't bother to buy the full version

SMAC works fine on my PC: really seldom crashed or freezed, apart some problems with the appearence of the "battery low" warning (I played it on a notebook).

[Gord McLeod]

Odd... I've been in a major multi-week marathon of SMACX and I haven't had a crash in all that time.

[Sir Shiva]

I think you need to speak to Microsoft on this..

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[Adm.Naismith]

Sir Shiva

quote: I think you need to speak to Microsoft on this..

Yes And No!

Microsoft Windows is the platform, and sure it have some fault and bugs. Still my system was a know brand (AST) and a notebook (not something I can have changed adding unsupported hw, you see).

It was on the market with its Win 95 ors2 far before SMACX was released. Others games works just fine and lots of other business applications and utilities do the same.

We can scream about messy PC market and unstable platform, but I'm only the customer, not the engineers that draw and enforce the standard. Firaxis and all others software companies, Microsoft itself apart , works on the same gamefield.

Someone succed to make acceptable stable products, someone don't (not always).
Think what you like about it, but simply don't put your finger only to Microsoft.

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Admiral Naismith AKA mcostant

[phunny pharmer]

Hmm...Microsoft...***crash***...***sorry a fatal error has occured...***...hmm...***hang***...***hang***...** *hang some more***...hmm...***force restart***...hmm..."Where'd my game go"...***breaks windows98 cd***...***swears eternal vendetta against microsoft like so many of his SMAC enemies had said to him***...hmm...***system won't start up***...***I hate Microsoft***

Irony of the story...I always crush my enemies when ever they swear "eternal vendetta" against me...

[Adm.Naismith]

Oh dear, is Microsoft switching its hw and sw developement center into tanks factories? I must have an hint looking how large appeared that Natural Keyboards and Force Feedback Joystick!

Better I go to shop an helmet and some LAW (antitank weapon), then

Of course, when nanotechnology will become feasible I will start to be scared stiff to Microsoft, as if I'll be an enemy or the legitimate user of that NanoTechnological weapons!

Back to Topic, any chance to know the beta testing plan for the game? (I don't mean with defined date, just which milestones will be in and a main view of the effort Firaxis plan to put to have a first class game).

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Admiral Naismith AKA mcostant

[UltraSonix]

You know SMAC's never crashed on me - and I'm still on a Win95 with P166. Fancy that?

Anyways, I think Civ3 should definitely have a public beta, which I think the other civ games have never had.

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[Wazell]

Maybe this is because Win98 crashes more than Win95? Three years' development and Microsoft could only achieve that ... ...
Anyway a CivIII that doesn't crash is certainly a great new and brilliant idea.