CTD on city mgr screen

[Toro]

Oh my god...! I've found folks who actually still work on this game! Gods be praised.

Okay, to my question: one of the very irksome things for me in this game (more irksome because I think CTP2 is probably the coolest civ game yet) is a CTD that happens when, later in the game, I click on the city manager screen. Started again last night, just after I settled my 39th and 40th cities. Too many cities?

Running XP now, 512 RAM. Also occurred in Win95. Any thoughts, fixes, more info needed?

[centrifuge]

Do you have the patch and are you using any mods?

[Toro]

1.1 installed, but no mods.

[Martin Gühmann]

It looks like your governemnt doesn't allow 40 cities so get a better government in the mean time every city over the limit, removes one point of happiness in every city of your empire.

-Martin

[Toro]

Hi Martin.

Thought of that. Going over the gov't limit normally causes unrest, not a crash. But in this case, I'm a Corp Republic, so 45 cities should be acceptable.

[Gilgamensch]

can you try to attach a savegame?
Might be something wrong with the savegame.....
Did you ever reload in between from the Autosave?

[Toro]

Hi G,

Interesting thing, it occurs sporadically. Last night, I was able to play a few turns without problem (I recall this happening before, too). Then, when I play long enough, it'll crash again. Seems to happen when I have plenty of cities and (necessarily) later in the game. IOW, it'll happen again. Perhaps a memory leak???

I can attach a game the next time it crashes, send to you?

Thanks.

[Tamerlin]

If the game is crashing (I don't know what CTD is) try the /reloadslic trick after you have loaded your saved game.

Hit the ' touch and then enter /reloadslic in the text window, hit Enter to execute the command and then Enter again to close the window.

[Toro]

Hi T,

Okay, I'll try, see what results.

CTD=crash to desktop.

Thanks!

[Gilgamensch]

And in case it happens send the save, we will have a play

[Toro]

Okay, it's still happening. I've a file, but how do I get it to you guys in order to take a look?

Many thanks.

[centrifuge]

Use a program like winzip or windows XP's file compressor, to put it into compressed format, and than use the attach file button from the "post reply" screen. Simple as that

[Tamerlin]

BTW Toro, if you are experiencing repeated CTD you can try to install again CtP2 using the Compatibility Tool provided with XP. I am using Win2000 and this tool has often allowed me to solve problems.

[Toro]

The file.

Thanks for assist here.

[Maquiladora]

I played about 12 turns and no problems anyway, except for switching you to a commie