A little help needed...

[jinxo]

Have played civ 2 for ages now, but i seem to have hit a small prob.
when i try to start the game i get the following message

CIV2 caused a general protection fault
in module CIV2.EXE at 0041:00000384.
Registers:
EAX=c1684727 CS=4537 EIP=00000384 EFLGS=00000202
EBX=0002491a SS=4747 ESP=00009b88 EBP=00009fc0
ECX=0028000a DS=4747 ESI=000001e0 FS=0000
EDX=815d030e ES=4727 EDI=48e7000a GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
26 ff 1e 0e 00 8b f8 0b c0 0f 84 4e 01 16 8d 86
Stack dump:
0001000a 80b339d8 bff73c4a 8157f000 00000000 815f7c24 0000001c 80b33a18 80b33ada bff741f7 140e009c bff733ad 00023ce4 9c3c4747 80b339f0 bff73123


Any ideas on whats going on would be much appreciated.
cheers!

[crowatbitemedotcom]

Are you using 2.42 or MGE? MGE caused a similar problem for me. I was playing the game with no problem (SP), ended my turn, and the game locked up on me. Then I got a message very similar to yours. So naturally I Crtl-Alt-Del and restart my computer. Except my computer won't restart, my entire hard drive crashed! And then to top things off, while I was trying to fix my computer, the monitor died! But I don't think MGE caused that last problem. Wish I had an answer for you, but that computer was kinda old and I'm getting another one this week.

My brother is coming over next week to help me try to diagnose the problem (I'm no computer expert), if I find anything out I'll post it here.

[Wittlich]

Originally posted by jinxo
Have played civ 2 for ages now, but i seem to have hit a small prob.
when i try to start the game i get the following message

CIV2 caused a general protection fault
in module CIV2.EXE at 0041:00000384.
Registers:
EAX=c1684727 CS=4537 EIP=00000384 EFLGS=00000202
EBX=0002491a SS=4747 ESP=00009b88 EBP=00009fc0
ECX=0028000a DS=4747 ESI=000001e0 FS=0000
EDX=815d030e ES=4727 EDI=48e7000a GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
26 ff 1e 0e 00 8b f8 0b c0 0f 84 4e 01 16 8d 86
Stack dump:
0001000a 80b339d8 bff73c4a 8157f000 00000000 815f7c24 0000001c 80b33a18 80b33ada bff741f7 140e009c bff733ad 00023ce4 9c3c4747 80b339f0 bff73123

Any ideas on whats going on would be much appreciated.
cheers!

Jinxo,

Actually, with this stack-dump, I would suggest you delete the game off of your harddrive and load it back up again, along with any patches/mods that you use.

- Wittlich

[The Mad Monk]

The executable caused the crash at startup, so I would recomend just trying to reinstall that first--no sense going the full route, if only that step is needed.

[Dr.Oogkloot]

I've also had a problem like that, and reinstalling worked.