Game froze

May 25, 2002 7:47 PM from

I just got a game that froze on me.

I was modifying the military/social/research sliders, and suddenly the military slider was set to -1. At that point the game hung, eating all CPU avail.

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Reply #1 May 25, 2002 8:19 PM from

Stardock Forums Top

I got it again... -1 on military and the game froze.

Reply #2 May 29, 2002 4:09 PM from

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Ick...I have no idea how you managed to get it to do that...can you send me a save game where you can reproduce it and tell me what you were doing to get it to be -1?

--Cari

Reply #3 May 29, 2002 5:13 PM from

Stardock Forums Top

No, I dont think any special situation triggereed it. All I remember was that I played with the military slider. The other two was different the two time I got the error.

Reply #4 May 29, 2002 7:04 PM from

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Tried to reproduce it a bunch of times. Seems as this autosave makes it fail more than a new game. http://home.jacobsson.nu/galciv/sliderfreeze.rar

What to do to make it freeze...is to put the military slider at 0 and work the other sliders up/down a bunch of times. I even got it to freeze without any slider having a negative value.

Reply #5 May 29, 2002 7:09 PM from

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Or perhaps not that easy...at first I got two freezes rather easy with that savegame...then I couldnt get a freeze with a new game...so I tried with the savegame again and didnt manage to get it to freeze. gaaah.

Reply #6 May 30, 2002 10:42 AM from

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Thanks, that was enough for me to reproduce it and figure out what was happening (I think!)

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