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Specifically Civilization III on a boot camp partitioned imac using xp home sp2. At the very very end of a 3 disk install it crashes when searching for available memory or capacity or to that effect. The blue error/critical failure screen flashes so briefly I can't read the cause of the error, and then reboots. I'm not the most comp savvy person so detailed suggestions would be helpful. Let me know if I need to provide more info. thanks.

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the recommended system specs are:

CPU Speed : 400 MHz

Memory Size: 128 MB

Disk Space: 1.3 GB

this might sound stupid, but does your system meets these specs?

you could also try to close all other applications before installing the game: so you use less memory

about the blue screen: you could change this to show the error when it has automatically has rebooted:

My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Reboot and restore settings [dont know if i translated this right: its the lowest option] > Settings:

Here you can change the time of displaying the error, the way it reboots, etc.

i hope i helped you a bit

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If you're trying to get the full error message, what you can do is this (you need to be in classic view mode for this):

Start > Settings > Control Panel > System

Click on the "Advanced" tab and then click on "Settings" in the "Startup and Recovery" group. Uncheck the box that says "Automatic Restart" under the "System Failure" group.

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Now try and install your game. If the BSoD pops up, write down the information and see if you can't find anything about that particular error.

(I apologize if this takes awhile to load; the forums don't seem to like the thumbnails from Photoamp)

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