06-06-2005 03:38									#1
	Space Victory Crash Tired of ads?

So I played a Huge game and got to the very end, spaceship launch, the video attempts to play and it crashes to desktop.

I had no crashes throughout the entire game and no game play problems.

I'm running WinXP and have Conquests with Civ3 and all the latest patches.

I don't why it did this can anyone let me know if this at all common?

I have had many CIV3 victories in the past on my machine with winxp, this victory comes after me having a new hard drive installed and everything reinstalled.

Any help would be appreciated, I looked at the official civ3 site for know bugs, and here, but found nothing, I may have missed it but I did look.

Thanks
John

	06-06-2005 05:37									#2
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Have you tried to duplicate the crash by restoring to an earlier save and winning SS again, or has this only happened once?

Does the introduction video play okay?

	06-06-2005 08:11									#3
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I seem to recall that a corrupt dll is the problem. I just can't think of the name.

	06-06-2005 08:11									#4
	Tired of ads?

Almost the exact same thing just haapned to me. I too had a hard drive replaced and I think this is the first time that I got the the space race vid.
I crash right after I hit the launch button. I tried everything I could think of, upgraded vid drivers, etc, but it just crashes and crashes. I might try and load an earlier save to see if the same thing happens. I have the intro vid disabled currently, I will also see if that will play when enabled.

*edit* the intro vid does play without any issues.

Last edited by Acemo on 06-06-2005 at 08:33

	06-06-2005 08:36									#5
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If it is the .dll, I believe Civ3 uses Bink. The file is called bink*.dll, where the * may be replaced by an extra character; check your Civ3 directory.

	06-06-2005 08:44									#6
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thanks Kloreep, your tip was this difference. I deleted binkw32.dll from my conquests directory and then I copied the version of binkw32 from my play the world directory into my conquests directory (get all that?) and it worked fine, thanks mate.

	06-06-2005 19:56									#7
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Yeah that is the name, sorry I could not remember it at the time.