Terran.exe, XP problem

nickless · March 13, 2004, 10:19

Hello everyone,

I've got a problem running SMAC under WinXP home.
After about 5 minutes or so, I get a message saying that terran.exe cause a problem and it crashes to desktop.

I have the win2000&XP patch installed, I have changed the ini for cpu-support and I have installed the updatepatch v4.0. I have even set the compatibility mode to win98/me (it worked on my 98 machine).

Is there anyone who can help me fix this?

Tnx in advance,

Tim

Lazerus · March 13, 2004, 11:42

goto the terran.txt file and search for a line that says forceoldalgorithm=0 and change that 0 to 1.

It's something along those lines that i've seen people mention many times

nickless · March 14, 2004, 08:27

I couldn't find a terran.txt.
I found a terran.exe and a terran.old, both of wich I can't edit.

Jamski · March 14, 2004, 10:34

Its alphacentauri.ini I think. Its a like a .txt

But he already did that.

-Jam

nickless · March 15, 2004, 14:09

Yeah, I did that already.

Nobody got an answer yet?
Hmm, no problem, I'll wait

ldkoehler · March 16, 2004, 20:17

Hey

I believe I have a similar problem.

I can play SMAC just fine, but cannot load SMAX without an error in TERRANX.ICD that causes a crash to the desktop. I have the Planetary Pack installed if that might matter.

I can however *sometimes* load the game by running terranx.exe.

I looked around for a terran.txt or .ini file and didn't find anything.

Any suggestions??

lee

PRG · March 18, 2004, 05:29

I am having similar problems too. I've tried everything and no luck. Alpha Centauri works just fine but no luck on Alien Crossfire.. I've tried loading it at 16 and 32 bit color depth too.. Here's a question? Could it be an issue with the NTFS file system?
Just wondering whether everyone having problems is using NTFS and everyone who isn't can run it. OR Is everyone having problems running an AMD processor(like me.)

Skanky Burns · March 18, 2004, 05:36

My game folder is on an NTFS drive. AMD processor.
Have you tried getting a no-cd crack for it?
Maybe that might be a factor. I just hate playing the cd-swapping game.

PRG · March 18, 2004, 06:13

The no CD crack fixed it.

Major Guz · March 18, 2004, 17:40

I could install the game (smac and smax) fine on my desktop computer (athlon AMD processor) but on the laptop (P4) the game would only run SMAC.
I think I will try the nocd crack as well.
But I still think it has something to do with the processor.

PRG · March 20, 2004, 17:38

Probably not the processor.. Your pentium laptop has the same problems my athlon had. Chipset maybe?

marc420 · March 23, 2004, 14:40

Hi ya'll,

I just came back and installed SMAC Planetary Pak on my computer. Forgotten how much I'd like this game. It may still be my favorite over anything that's come since.

I had a couple of install issues in getting it running on my XP Pro, Pentium 4 computer. But I was eventually successful.

When I first got the CPU message, I tried switching the compatability mode to Win98. That of course didn't fix it, and I found up on these boards the ForceOldAlgorithm setting.

I still got a problem after that, in that SMACX just stopped and died on startup. But then I went back and removed the compatability mode that I'd set.

Then it worked fine. So I my Toshiba laptop running XP Pro, it ran fine with the ForceOldAlgorithm bit set to 1 and no compatability modes set at all.

Hope that helps!
Forgotten just how good this game is!

Marc