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I'm disgusted with the current patch - I constantly freeze whenever barbs enter my screen. This seems to happen alot on raging hordes. What do I do?
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MacUser
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Olathe, KS, USA
Jul 1999
time: 23:14
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Okay, so I fire up a MP game, and play to 475 B.C. with about 5 barb attacks and had no freezes. Now I was in a "single-player" mode in that I haven't done the LAN thing yet. Baby steps. Off to launch the LAN...
Well, after about 2 hours of running back and forth between computers, and three barb attacks, I still can't make it freeze. Both machines are using the 1.1.1 patch. Also, I had no problems when I quit the games; my Macs didn't crash. So, what am I missing here? Next step, I need a new barb infested game with a human! Berzerker/Smash want to try and show me your freezes?
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[This message has been edited by MacUser (edited February 19, 2000).]
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finbar
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Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy
Jan 1970
time: 06:14
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The Mac MP freeze problem, according to Mr Nesse, afflicts (or should afflict, because of the crappy PC code) AI turns in general. For some reason, for me, like berzerker, they occur on the Barb turn. It doesn't have to be a unit moving that freezes, it occurs as soon as the Barb turn is taken.
I quote from one of Mr Nesse's explanations to me:
"Apparently what is happening is that certain units (the barbarians appear to
be especially susceptible to this, but I've seen it happen with other AI
players also) get confused as to where they are located on the map. They
have some goofy queuing system where they process some events immediately
and queue some for later display. The net result is that the unit stacks get
messed up and it goes into an infinite loop trying to find the first unit in
the stack. My current version of the application does some sanity checking
for this that it wasn't doing before, but it's still not perfect... just
better."
The "current version" he refers to became the latest patch, and the "goofy queuing system", etc, refers to the original PC code. With which we - and Mr Nesse - are, sadly, stuck.
Why it doesn't affect you, MacUser, I don't know. You are obviously blessed. 
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finbar
Mono Rules!
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After trashing some of my hard drive software and miscellaneous other things to accomodate a CD recorder, I played a mp game without any freezes even on raging hordes - this after several games on raging hordes with so many freezes I had to drop out. A large part of my problem may have been with computer bugs...
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