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gskong · 06-12-2006, 10:20 PM

Pentium 4 3.0 GHz, 1Gbyte RAM, Windows XP

The last few times I played (post patch) yield the following results:

1) A game universe of 25 countries and 45 leagues starting in 1900 would not sim past 2/2/1901. Game froze for good once ~one year has been simmed.

2) Trimmed universe down to 20 countries and 35 leagues (took another 4 hours to start over as there is no way to use previously created league). The game again froze after about 1 1/2 game years of simming. No matter how many times I restart the saved game the game would slow down quickly and freeze within a matter of a few game days.

3) Finally trimmed universe down to 15 countries and 20 leagues (took another 3 hours or so). This time the sim went smoothly for approximately 30 years, which I accomplished by letting my PC run for 36 hours (I'm trying to get 90 years of history before playing). I set the game save to once a month in fear of losing my data. To my horror, the game froze DURING SAVING and after waiting patiently for 3 hours as the pace meter indicates 14% player saved, I finally shut down my computer. When I loaded my saved game, it crashes everytime I try to access any team's tab other than the home tab. Specifically, I would get the dreaded window's "ootp2006.exe has encountered problem blah blah", which forces the program to shut down.

I'm now extremely frustrated. Since receiving the game I've spent at least 20 hours just creating leagues that I've created over and over again. I've not had much success taking advantage of the one feature that most attracted me to this game (the creation of a whole world of possibilties). I understand that the game would probably run just fine if I stick with 1 country and just 7 or 8 leagues, but then why would did I upgrade from 6.5 if that's what I wanted?

I'm now shelving the game until the crashing and freezing problems are fixed. I may even wait til we finally have a way to save created leagues for future universes. That is too bad because I really looked forward to this game and really loved what it had to offer.

Not sure whether this post belongs in the tech forum or the general forum. I'm not sure what I described above is new (I didn't seeanyone else have the game freeze during saving, nor did I see anyone else have the game freeze while simming). Maybe my computer is crap?

06-12-2006, 10:20 PM	#1
gskong Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 28	Love the game, but frustrated Pentium 4 3.0 GHz, 1Gbyte RAM, Windows XP The last few times I played (post patch) yield the following results: 1) A game universe of 25 countries and 45 leagues starting in 1900 would not sim past 2/2/1901. Game froze for good once ~one year has been simmed. 2) Trimmed universe down to 20 countries and 35 leagues (took another 4 hours to start over as there is no way to use previously created league). The game again froze after about 1 1/2 game years of simming. No matter how many times I restart the saved game the game would slow down quickly and freeze within a matter of a few game days. 3) Finally trimmed universe down to 15 countries and 20 leagues (took another 3 hours or so). This time the sim went smoothly for approximately 30 years, which I accomplished by letting my PC run for 36 hours (I'm trying to get 90 years of history before playing). I set the game save to once a month in fear of losing my data. To my horror, the game froze DURING SAVING and after waiting patiently for 3 hours as the pace meter indicates 14% player saved, I finally shut down my computer. When I loaded my saved game, it crashes everytime I try to access any team's tab other than the home tab. Specifically, I would get the dreaded window's "ootp2006.exe has encountered problem blah blah", which forces the program to shut down. I'm now extremely frustrated. Since receiving the game I've spent at least 20 hours just creating leagues that I've created over and over again. I've not had much success taking advantage of the one feature that most attracted me to this game (the creation of a whole world of possibilties). I understand that the game would probably run just fine if I stick with 1 country and just 7 or 8 leagues, but then why would did I upgrade from 6.5 if that's what I wanted? I'm now shelving the game until the crashing and freezing problems are fixed. I may even wait til we finally have a way to save created leagues for future universes. That is too bad because I really looked forward to this game and really loved what it had to offer. Not sure whether this post belongs in the tech forum or the general forum. I'm not sure what I described above is new (I didn't seeanyone else have the game freeze during saving, nor did I see anyone else have the game freeze while simming). Maybe my computer is crap?