Very annoying lockup

[Gravity Sucks]

I had subdued the PK, the Believers and Gaians. I was just kicking some
serious Morganite butt. I captured a big city and was in the design workshop
designing a unit for the city to make. Just then I got the pop-up up that
Morgan was on channel four and wanted to talk to me. Everything locked up
tighter than a drum. I tried every key on the keyboard to unlock it; Nothing
doing.

I had to hit ctrl-alt-delete and totally exit the game. (It wouldn't
reactivate.) Which totally blew the game.:(

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[Jason Willoughby]

Umm, Gravity, you know the game autosaves every turn, right? You'll wnat
to be loading "saves/auto/Alpha Centauri Autosave 1.SAV", assuming you
haven't started a new game. If you're not in Iron Man, it even keeps 5,
10, and 30 year (IIRC) backups for you..

[Gravity Sucks]

Thanks. Yes, I knew that. But the lockup was pretty annoying none the less.

And to tell you the truth. Thanks for reminding me. I forgot about the
backups. :)

Jason Willoughby wrote in message ...

[Gareth Teague]

My version locks up non stop is anyone else having serious problems like
this?
I assume the reason for autosaves every turn is that they could not get this
game stable.
If the patch doesnt fix this then its back to the shop for this one, and
back to civ II for me :(

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Gareth
gar...@giediprime.clara.co.uk
Gravity Sucks wrote in message <7cil41$ouo$1...@camel25.mindspring.com>...

[Quixote]

Gareth Teague wrote in message ...

>My version locks up non stop is anyone else having serious problems like
>this?

Yes I have just started having that problem. First game at talent level
around year 2390 or so. Always during the computers move and usually Yangs
move. It is really getting to be a bother. Playing map of planet on iron
man as Deidre. I have tried to get through this portion of the game now
about three times. First time it happened I had been playing about four
hours. Getting to be a real drag now.

[Brian Reynolds]

Hi Gareth,

Write to Jeff Morris (jmo...@firaxis.com), who can help you diagnose
the problem.

We have one known lockup involving enemy missile units (symptom: locks
repeatedly at a particular point in a particular players' turn, even
when reloaded from autosave). This problem has been corrected for
version 3.0, which is now in test. We sincerely apologize for the
inconvenience.

Brian Reynolds
Alpha Centauri Designer
FIRAXIS Games

On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 22:31:42 GMT, "Gareth Teague"
<giedi...@clara.co.uk> wrote:

>My version locks up non stop is anyone else having serious problems like
>this?

[Gravity Sucks]

My lockups/crashes *always* occur when I'm directing a unit out of a base
for the first time. (i.e-no problems if it's away from a base).

Cyberspace Buddha wrote in message <7cooua$e7e$1...@hiram.io.com>...
>Mike Brady <br...@aol.com> wrote:
>>Mar 1999 04:20:26 GMT, brey...@firaxis.com (Brian Reynolds) announced:
>
>Hmm... I've never seen a missile in any of the crashes I've had. My
>most frequent thing that I've noticed is when an opponent <always
>computer so far, haven't tried multi-play> is moving towards a base
>from the north.
>
>cheers,
>cb
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