Posted April 25, 2019
About turn 150, I received the familiar error message we all tend to get eventually.
I then returned to desktop and reloaded the latest save, played the turn through and did not get the error message.
This time, before hitting the end turn button, I saved (B4EndTurn or however you choose to call it), hit the end turn btn., & when the new turn came around, saved it as "Backup", & played another round, saving at the end of the turn over the B4EndTurn save slot once again & hit the turn btn. When my turn once again came around, I saved that with a save called "B4Quit", & exited to desktop, reloaded "B4Quit" & carried on.
I continued with the above sequence until the AI, at turn 233, conceded defeat.
It seems that one can get by, through exiting back to desktop every 2 turns, without running into the error messages. By the time the first error messages begin to surface, it's not that inconvenient to exit to desktop every 2 turns since there's usually so much to deal with each turn anyway. (for all I know, maybe you can go for 3 or 4 turns)
I don't know diddly about computers & such, but I've heard that the problem with the game has to do with something about a memory leak. Maybe playing only 2 turns doesn't "overload" the memory thingy, & going back to desktop and reloading the game clears out/refreshes whatever culprit causes the error messages.
Anyway, it's there for you to try out, or not...
I then returned to desktop and reloaded the latest save, played the turn through and did not get the error message.
This time, before hitting the end turn button, I saved (B4EndTurn or however you choose to call it), hit the end turn btn., & when the new turn came around, saved it as "Backup", & played another round, saving at the end of the turn over the B4EndTurn save slot once again & hit the turn btn. When my turn once again came around, I saved that with a save called "B4Quit", & exited to desktop, reloaded "B4Quit" & carried on.
I continued with the above sequence until the AI, at turn 233, conceded defeat.
It seems that one can get by, through exiting back to desktop every 2 turns, without running into the error messages. By the time the first error messages begin to surface, it's not that inconvenient to exit to desktop every 2 turns since there's usually so much to deal with each turn anyway. (for all I know, maybe you can go for 3 or 4 turns)
I don't know diddly about computers & such, but I've heard that the problem with the game has to do with something about a memory leak. Maybe playing only 2 turns doesn't "overload" the memory thingy, & going back to desktop and reloading the game clears out/refreshes whatever culprit causes the error messages.
Anyway, it's there for you to try out, or not...