Greetings fellow fans...

I just reinstalled Civ III (regular version) after having lost it in a move... anyway... I installed it to my XP Pro (SP1) P4 2.4Ghz ATI 7200 VIVO system and have been having fun playing the game after more than a year.

I have tried a couple of times to install the 1.29f patch and every time is asks for verification to uninstall and delete Civ III. If I say no, nothing happens... If I say yes, it copies a few files (after deleting my install) and won't run.

I've reinstalled (full delete of game directory) and tried again. No luck... it still trashes my install. :eek:

How can I install this thing and actually get it to upgrade and leave me a working game when I'm done? I'd also love to avoid nuking my current in progress games.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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I’m not an expert on this, but here is what I would do:

1.) Go through your registry and manually delete all entries pertaining to Civ III. (There is a separate entry for every version of Civ III, ex. 1.04 and 1.21 have separate entries) After that, reinstall the game.

2.) Try installing an earlier patch, and then upgrade to 1.29f.

3.) Reinstall the SP1. As stupid as that may sound, I had a problem with another game (Emperor: Battle for Dune) and that fixed it. Although, in doing that for Emperor, I also reinstalled XP, but I don’t think you want to do that. :p

@Suggestion 1 by DS_CL:
I did just that, and it works (more or less;) )
I got an error message - file is corrupted, while installing civ3 on my computer with XP home ed. Tried to uninstall in the same way Lurchx did - but remembered the regedit.exe file in the windows folder - searched it for civ3 related entries - removed them, and installed - np!

Now if only the game would not crash every once in a while

DS_CL's suggestion worked for me. Try getting a fresh download of the patch and repeat the process. Also running XP Pro.

Dan Rhea