pre-ringworld construct save

[Suicide Junkie]

When you hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and see "[not responding]" after the name of a program, all that means is that the program hasn't refreshed for X ms.

I once had that come up on me when I wrote a really big for-loop. It had to create something like 1000 files, so it took a while, and got the not-responding thing.

It was still doing stuff, and finished after 30 seconds, but was considered "not-responding" after the first 5 seconds or so.

Anyways, what you probably have is a horribly massive battle going on, or perhaps a slower-than-average machine running SE4. If you leave it, it will probably finish.

(I was just playing on a 486-66, with 16M ram, and it took 10 minutes to do an 8 AI turn. Most of the time, SE4 would be "not responding", except right after it updates the "Processing Player X")

[tictoc]

Mmmm, you could be right about the battle, my specs are:
P500,192Mb,Matrox g400 d/h Max(32mb) home built and tweaked to the Maximum.

I waited for perhaps 5 mins before hitting ctrl..etc, i'll have another go and see what happens. Thanks for the reply

tic

[tictoc]

Update to lock up. The Toron's get to within a few turns of Forlon x (ringworld) and then the comp goes quiet. I tried in both Strategic and Tactical modes, there is no engagement from either side, i left it running for 25 mins but no joy. So i dunno whats happening. Any ideas out there? Has anyone tried the save game and attacked the ringworld? and what were your results.

tic

[raynor]

If you'll post the Last savegame before the lockup, I'll load it up and give it a shot.

[tictoc]

SE4 patch 1.30
Mephisto's mod 1.61

Here is the Last save game it's at date 2500.0. Just declare war with the praetorians and on the 3rd turn the ringworld battle takes place (Forlon x). The game is set for the AI to do all the moves, so you don't have to move any ships yourself.

tic

[raynor]

I've played it up until the game locks twice now. The first time, I made it to turn 1006 before the ringworld battle locked it up. The second time, the lockup happened on turn 1003 during an attack on a different planet. It's not good that it locked in two different places for me. We need a savegame that is precisely one turn before the lockup and that always generates the lockup.

[This message has been edited by raynor (edited 23 March 2001).]

[tictoc]

I will post a new one within 1/2 hr, 1 turn to the ringworld battle.

tic