PTW 1.04f Bug & Crash Reports

[vmxa1]

MC Hawking in response to your question, I have not had this so far. I have PTW, but I have 512 MB on AMD. I had seen a lock up in Civ3 + 129f at times when I go to move a unit and run the mouse pointer with the move cursor around the map looking for where I want to go. It has locked the game on me a number of times. So far not in PTW.

[Grundel]

Any solution to this problem and I will be happy.

The game crashes anytime anyone in sp PTW tries to build a battleship. the followin error occurs...

...art\units\battleship\battlewagondefault.flc

file not found...game will exit.

I was playing the spanish. i have an amd 850 with 256 mb of memory. i have not had any problems with the normal civ 3. i am using version 1.04f and have not installed or used any mod...using strictly the default settings. Just so you know, when I go into the above stated directory, the file is there.

any help would be great.

[SpencerH]

Dont write it in stone but it sounds like your game is trying to use a mod somehow since there is no "battlewagon" in civ3. Thats a mod.

If you didnt install a mod or edit the game, someone else did and they didnt do it properly.

[be0wulfe]

Unknown Crash

http://www.disorganized-mayhem.com/Lincoln of the Americans, 1370 AD.SAV

Run the turn, game crashes part-way through the turn resolution. Prior to the 1.04f patch it would just hang.


This is the turn prior:

http://www.disorganized-mayhem.com/Lincoln of the Americans, 1365 AD.SAV

Does the game crash for anyone else ... ?

[Raion]

In Play the World 1.04f version, I get one of the Normal Buttons in the Science Tech screen in the Masonry tech. It does not work, and its some button I am not familiar with. It has like two arrows pointing out (triangles) from center with a pitch-fork type shovel head below of center. I am using European Terrain and I have no reason why it is there.

I looked through the files, just to find it, and its in the normal buttons pcx file. Just got the CD and installed the patch right after installing the CD - Play the World.
I have no idea why it is there, but I may start another game and see if it is there again, which I think it will be.
Why, I do not know??

[Raion]

Sorry, just looked it up about previous post above.

Its the Build Outpost button that is in the masonary tech of the Science Advisor Screen and its still there.

Just started new game with European Terrain, and the button shows up on the Science Advisor screen in the tech - masonary, and it does nothing, but it should not be there.

[Raion]

That "Build Output" button is still there, with a new game, and just the Play the World version without the 1.04f version patch installed.

I uninstalled the patch just to see if it was the patch, but it is not. The button is still there in the Science Advisor (Sid's) screen in the same place, in the masonary tech.
Unless it is there to show that an outpost can be built after researching the tech masonary. But, that's also in the manual.

???????
Maybe its nothing, but how can I tell?

[player1]

A VERY IMPORTANT thing to adress.
(and plus easy to fix)

Bezerk and Hwatcha are NOT INCLUDED in upgrade chains.

Although Bezerk upgrades to Guerrila and Hwatcha to Artillery, but Archers DOES NOT upgarde to Bezerk and Catapult DOES NOT upgarde to Hwatcha.

This can be fixed with simple MODing, but I think it NEEDS to be fixed in original BIX too.

[vmxa1]

Raion are you talking about the depiction of the radar tower in the science box for masonary? The worker has the button for creating the towers, but some conditions are required to allow it. It came in in PTW. It is just in the advisor box to let you know it becomes available with Masonary.

[danwhit]

Did anyone find out how to fix the curse of the spinning disc. Is there anything that can be done. I have read countless messages from people complaining but no solutions. I think some said that it would occasionally work but mostly spinning disc. Well, mine has never successfully worked.

I heard a rumor that it might me certain cd-roms can't install copy protection. Is this whats up?

[Carver]

1.04f - Game crashed right at startup (after selecting preferences) while the bar was running across the blank screen "setting up AI player X".

That is BS, total vucking BS.

[Catt]

1.04f - Single Player Game

I had just set up a quick scenario via the editor to determine whether or not the Hwach'a enjoyed lethal bombard even though the flag isn't checked in the editor (like the crusie missle's lethal bombard). To test, I set the human player as the Koreans. After running the test (no lethal bombard), I ended the scenario and started a new game (not using quickstart). The quick test scenario made no changes in the civ3mod.bic (or the PTW equivalent, whatever it may be called).

I manually set the game parameters (I usually use "random") because I wanted an 8-player game with all the new PTW civs. I choose the Scandanavians for my civ.

The game loaded fine (I didn't get a "rules have been changed" nor would I expect to) and has played without problem through the fist 3000 years or so.

Only quirk is that the Scandanavian royal family seems to have been involved in some extramarital dalliances - the Scandavians, being an open-minded people, nontheless welcomed the royal b*stard child and even went so far as to elevate him to the throne. Meet King Wang Kon of the Scandanavians.

Catt

[vmxa1]

Well at least he is human, though it is hard to tell from the picture.

[Zero]

Has anybody noted that "build previously built units" or something to that equivalent NEVER works? I think it's a bug, It never sticks to the unit I intend to and its been annoying. Im just wondering if anyone has same problem.

Oh and one more thing, not really a bug but Im using a P4 1.7Ghz laptop to play civ3/PTW during my lunch break. and its really annoying that the keyboard movement is only done by the numkeypad... which most laptops dont have and to get a numkeypad you'll have to buy an external device which is like 49.99.... It used to be the case that you can use up/down/left/right arrow to move ur units in its respective directions, but now it just moves the map around..Only movement i can do on keyboard are the diagonal movements... Anyone know how to fix/change this feature? using a touchpad really sux.

[player1]

Here is the bug:

Keshik has for no reason EXPLORE AI selected together with offense AI.

Personnaly I think that Conquistadir is supposed to have both these stratgeies (and he has just Offesne), not Keshik.

I assume that since they are listed one between another, that it was an ERROR.