Civ III's Horrible Site

DarkCloud · September 10, 2001, 21:51

I am using Microsoft Internet Explorer (4.0 I think) MSN Version... using a 56K modem... and the Civ III site takes forever to load. 30 sec- 2 minutes a page- but that is not why the site deserves the title of the thread.

The Site has crashed my computer!
The "trivia" game managed to give me a 401. error... then I returned to the internet, which froze. I left the internet and tried to reconnect- I received a hardware failture, after rebooting I managed to reconnect to the internet.

I don't know How Firaxis can fix this, but I would like to say that at least 1 Person has had trouble with their annoying site.

Oh yes, and the answer to today's trivia question is most likely the "Philistines"

SlowwHand · September 10, 2001, 21:54

For one thing, you need to to a Windows update badly.
I'm using version 6 for I.E.

God knows what all kinds of **** you have.

DarkCloud · September 10, 2001, 22:02

I refuse to do an update... unless Civ III is extremely good- otherwise I will just complain here how Civ III cannot run on a Pentium 200 with a 3D card! It SHOULD run on a P200! If someone can use a P200 to play the Sims which is more graphic intensive and complex than Civ III, a P200 should be able to run Civ III.

DarkCloud · September 10, 2001, 22:19

... Perhaps i should have called thi thread "Civ III's Crummy Site or Horrible Site." In retrospect, I shouldn't have used such strong words, but the site annoed me.

Every other webpage works fine for me- it is just the Civ III site- even SidGolf loads ok

SlowwHand · September 10, 2001, 22:22

Dude. It doesn't have anything to do with the site.
It's just a symptom of the sickness that is your computer.
If you never go to the Civ III site, you still need to get the updates. Especially the critical updates.

FrostyBoy · September 10, 2001, 23:07

Actually speaking as a web designer I can understand where Darkcloud is coming from.

The Civ3 site is actually quite graphic/script intensive. I believe it would require a fair bit of memory just to load it, but once its in the cache and fully loaded, it shouldn't be a problem.

IE4 would work fine, but maybe IE5.5 will lesson the tension your computer is having when loading that website.

It's a free download, it will be at download.com

If you don't want to do this, try either of these two things:

You could make sure your caching is on in IE, and load the whole page, don't touch anything or move anything, just let the browser load the page. Also make sure there are no other programs up. So that next time you go there, it will just pull it out of the cache and not have too much hassle with your ram.

Or you could turn off a few things under the advanced tab in internet options. But this would be pushing it just to load one website.

Falconius · September 10, 2001, 23:31

Maybe I should do an update too. But how do I tell which version of IE I have?

ColdWizard · September 10, 2001, 23:38

click on help and select About Internet Explorer and a little box will pop up with the various details

Urban Ranger · September 11, 2001, 01:00

It's not a problem with the site, it's a problem with Imploding Exploder

isaac brock · September 11, 2001, 01:07

Its a lot better than Assrape Navigator

September 11, 2001, 01:57

Quote:

It's not a problem with the site, it's a problem with Imploding Exploder

Quote:

Its a lot better than Assrape Navigator

Back to Mosaic . . .

Urban Ranger · September 11, 2001, 03:23

Quote:

Originally posted by isaac brock
Its a lot better than Assrape Navigator

Apparently you failed to understand what's having problems.

DarkCloud · September 15, 2001, 17:32

Ok, thanks for the information- I'll try to download IE 5.5 when I get the chance

SerapisIV · September 15, 2001, 19:34

My dial-in connection is limited to 33.6 as that's all the university dial in can take, but I have no problem with Civ3.com taking any longer then every other webpage to load. It loads at the same pace as Gamespot.com

dainbramaged13 · September 15, 2001, 21:34

Quote:

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
It's not a problem with the site, it's a problem with Imploding Exploder

oh man that was clever

linux fiend!

Tventano · September 16, 2001, 08:46

Just for the record, some time ago I downloaded Opera, it is fairly lightweight and customizable. It uses an MDI interface, so by just one click you minimize the browser, with all the open pages and can check something else and return easily. It claims to be faster, I do not know, but downloading it definitely is faster than IE, because it is so much smaller.

kittenOFchaos · September 16, 2001, 09:14

I use OPERA too:

www.opera.com for free download...

It is very quick...the only problem is that some webpages don't work FULLY with it...some ezboards don't let you post with it

I use IE and OPERA together thus and do very nicely, thank you.

PGM · September 16, 2001, 15:59

Quote:

Originally posted by DarkCloud
The Site has crashed my computer!
I don't know How Firaxis can fix this, but I would like to say that at least 1 Person has had trouble with their annoying site.

I think the title for this thread should be "DarkCloud's Horrible (crappy) Computer".
Don't blame the site, I have a 56k connection too and I get in in under 10 seconds (at the most).

JellyDonut · September 16, 2001, 21:15

Micrapsoft Intercrap Crapsplorer? Netscrap Crapigator?

The only browser worth using is iCab.

monolith94 · September 16, 2001, 21:29

Another iCab junkie reporting in!!!

gotta love the animation in the top right. . .

JellyDonut · September 16, 2001, 21:44

Quote:

Originally posted by monolith94
Another iCab junkie reporting in!!!

gotta love the animation in the top right. . .

Come, brother, and let us enlighten those who have bulky, inferior browsers, for iCab is the righteous path.

kittenOFchaos · September 17, 2001, 12:13

Have you tried OPERA?

I will try icab...have 5 browsers on my computer then

kitten heads to town to get more RAM!

Provost Harrison · September 17, 2001, 13:42

I have always found the civ3 site very swift, in fact about the quickest site I use on a regular basis. Seriously, you could do to upgrade some aspects of your system there if you are still on IE4, which came out a very, very long time ago.