Wolf K on Wed, 21 Mar 2018 08:31:07 -0400 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following:
On 2018-03-20 22:45, pyotr filipivich wrote:

I am afraid that Microsoft has "fixed" something again.

I'm still playing Civilization 4,(saw no reason to try and play
Civ5 on a dial up line). I installed it to the Windows 7 box ¿4 years
ago? when I switch machines. It had an interesting quirk - random
intervals it would freeze the display, blink and resume. On occasions
I would be able to see the desktop before it resumed - something about
a display driver not responding.
Be that as it may, I could live with that.

But the last couple days, it sounds like the HD is trashing, and
there is some serious 'lag' - e.g., click for next turn, "drive
sounds" and four to five seconds later it acts. This can be a problem
when you're trying to do "go from here to there".
I have tried the reboot option. That clears the problem, if I do
not do anything else before starting the game.

I already had to delete a legacy game because (apparently)
Microsoft fixed something so it died. I really don't want that to
happen again.


Sounds like not enough RAM, though why an old version would need a lot
of RAM is unclear. Maybe it's commandeering more RAM as you play.

Weird. As in "it ran 'fine' the first four years, why now?"

Which is why I suspect an MS update "fixed" something.
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pyotr filipivich
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