Intercepter Crash-A Fix?

xobsidianx · September 27, 2002, 16:45

Playing smacx with win98 on a Dell 450, I was never (and I mean never) able to complete a game of smacx because of the "intercepter crash." Then my sound card broke, so I disabled it. Guess what? I was then able to play and consistently complete smacx with no crashes whatsoever. If the mouse wheel fix doesn't work for you, you might want to try disabling your computer's sound card. For those of you who try this, please let me know if it works for you.
I now have a Dell 8200 with wxp, and I have no problems at all playing and completing smacx, after inserting the force . . . =1.

Kajak · September 27, 2002, 18:43

Crash all the time with Winxp crashes. Where do I do the insertion , I should say I'm pretty new at being other than a user.

Darius · September 27, 2002, 18:49

Quote:

after inserting the force . . . =1.

What does that mean?

I can usually avoid the interceptor scramble crash by disabling my antivirus program. But once in a while, I still get a crash. And when I get a crash in a particular game, that game seems to be susceptible after that. I would be very interested in trying your method.

Mongoose · September 27, 2002, 20:03

I think he refers to ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1 in the Alphacentauri.ini file.

Darius · September 27, 2002, 20:41

Oh, yeah, the XP thing. You're right. Thankfully, I don't have XP. I'm just interested in the scramble issue.

xobsidianx · September 28, 2002, 00:10

ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1 is what I mean't. I apologize for any confusion.

Kajak · September 28, 2002, 15:18

Guess I'm a little dense, but and so, since I don't find that line in my .ini file for ac do I insert the whole thing and is the position important in the file?

Different question ? is the interceptor crash and the WinXP midgame crash( with or without any interceptors) the same thing or only somewhat the same appearing and perhaps not related?

Sorry gang, just reread the thread and got the point this is a smacX fix

gwillybj · September 29, 2002, 01:52

Kajak - That line is indeed also for SMAC. It appears in "readme.txt" under "Additional Tweaks":

Quote:

ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1
If the game crashes intermittently, try adding this line.

fluffy · September 30, 2002, 06:11

There are many threads that have already covered these points:

ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1 is only required for Pentium 4 (W98 or XP) - XP with Pentium III works fine without it

The only documented solution to the interceptor crash that I know of (correct me if I'm wrong) is to use Norton CrashGuard, which intercepts the crash and allows you to play on. Unfortunately, that only works on W98.