New error message

Lemmy · #1 April 11th, 2001, 04:44 PM

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Originally posted by Samurai:

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Another recurring problem is that sometimes, during the portion of the end-turn phase when my ships are moving around, a picture of one of my ships will get "stuck" in the upper left-hand corner of the screen, and I have to reduce the game and bring it back up again to get rid of the corruption.

i actually had this problem too, it only occured with a certain transport ship which had movement orders at the end of the turn
i'm not having that anymore in my new game, don't know what caused it either.

i don't think any of the other problems are hardware related, i play this game on celeron 466 with 128 mb ( played it for a while with 64 mb, no problems )
in my new game i only get errors if a ship is still moving and i press the cargo transfer button.

[This message has been edited by LemmyM (edited 11 April 2001).]

Deathstalker · #2 April 11th, 2001, 06:40 PM

I too had these errors...called them the 'big blue screen errors' cause thats what would flash up with 'access violation' of se4.exe module etc. Eventually they got so bad that they were not exclusive to Se4. Even my web browser began to cough up errors every time I loaded. I have reinstalled windows about four times now...(recovery disks used for 'factory reinstall') to no avail. My friend thinks somehow my RAM got fried. This computer is now just a glorified browser until I can get it fixed/looked at. Currently I am running Se4 on a p133 with 32meg ram. No problems so far (been running for about month and a half.)
Maybe you are one of the 'lucky' people whos RAM decided to die too. I run 'DrWatson' on the computer all the time now and when it fails it is because of 'invalid memory access.'
Ah well, sorry for the lengthly post but just wanted to see if any of my bugs are your bugs

. Hopefully your computer is not as fried as mine.

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Owen smiled coldly. "It wasn't hers to take. I'm a Deathstalker until I die. And we never forget a slight or an enemy." -Owen Deathstalker.

serpwidgets · #3 April 11th, 2001, 10:18 PM

Deathstalker, it sounds similar to heat problems that I've experienced. A P133 is going to be ancient, and probably extremely dirty and dusty so you might consider opening the case and using an air duster to clean all the excess dust out of the fan and heat sink on the CPU, because that will keep airflow from carrying away the heat. I had similar problems with an old P200 and that fixed it.

chewy027 · #4 April 11th, 2001, 10:57 PM

I too have had the transport pic get stuck in the corner. What is that all about?

BTY samurai have you voted for the civil war feature yet? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

Instar · #5 April 12th, 2001, 03:06 AM

Send savegames and all other materials (mod pack, etc) to MM.
Otherwise the bug won't be fixed!

capnq · #6 April 12th, 2001, 03:22 AM

I've seen various games run quite a bit slower with a virus checker running in the background, enough that, for example, music tracks have a noticeably slower tempo. I turn off my virus checker whenever I play a game offline.

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Samurai · #7 April 12th, 2001, 05:31 AM

SE4 is the only software I've had any problem with since I got this computer a year ago.

I can't help but wonder if I somehow got a bad CD.

Does anyone know what causes a message like: Access violation at address 00000038. Read of address FFFFFFFF or Access violation at address 0045A6E3 in module "SE4.EXE". Read of address 72617521?