Daniel60 on Wed, 21 Mar 2018 23:31:59
+1100 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote on 21/03/18 13:45:

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.

May not help but have you tried defraging your Hard drive recently??
Under System tools,

Tried, yes. Using Piriform Defraggler - which tells me
a) 17% free space,
B) 7% fragmented
c) as near as I can tell, system and program files are also
"intact" Although MRT-Kb890830.exe "looks" suspicious - 187
fragments 127,310 KB last modified 3/16/2018 location Windows\System32
I'm willing to delete that, but it is a Window's file. (Which in
and of itself proves nothing.)

Anyway, defragging the drive reported a completion time of
"sometime tomorrow, maybe."

Some day, maybe.
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pyotr filipivich
Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing?