Error Message

Barinthus · January 6, 2004, 16:04

I played SMAC few years ago and loved the game. However at that time I had a laptop from work and I didn't have my own computer at all. Until few months ago and I immdiately wanted to purchase SMAC and SMAX. Imagine my dismay when I found out that they were no longer selling and producing this game. Until one fateful day at Fry's Electronics when I spotted this laptop collection with both games enclosed.

My computer is being run by Windows XP so naturally I downloaded all patches for both games. It has been a week so far and SMAX seems to be running alright despite getting this computer error everytime I open the game. Right now I'm at work so I don't recall the exact words but it was something like a warning that the game wasn't compitable with my operating system and that a crash is possible, blah blah.

Were those patches supposed to stop that error message from occuring again or is it normal? Thanks!

Ogie Oglethorpe · January 6, 2004, 17:58

My guess is it's the same old processor warning. If you did the force old voxel = 1 fix then ignoring the message should be no problem.

Additionally I wouldn't be surprised that the XP patch addressed this but that the error message still pops up. Would be typical of Firaxis's buggy patches and all.

I recently upgraded from a 1.8 GhzP4 where I constantly ran into that message to a 2500+ Athlon and no longer get that message.

Barinthus · January 6, 2004, 18:50

Ogie, thanks. Yeah did that force fix thing so I guess it's alright.