I recently purchased a new computer and went to install civ. The origonal was fine, but conquest consistantly got stuck at 61%, during a directx file. I don't even know why it was trying to install it, i have a higher version then the one the game needs. The error is cycle redundancy error. Thanks for any help

Sounds simply like a disk read error. Clean the disk and try again.

I've cleaned the disk about 5 times now, it isn't always getting stuck on the same file, but always on directx files. It is very annoying, anyone know a way around?

d/l Directx off of M$'s site, and see if that works better. Doesn't sound probably but maybe (there's a really slight chance of this) the copy of directx on your cd is corrupt.

Once you install Dx off of M$, you can run the civ install without installing Dx.

i have directx 9.0c, so it says i don't need to install it, but then during the normal installation of conquest it gets stuck on directx files, around the 60% area, its never went past 61%. I don't know why its trying to install the files. anyone know of a way to bypass part of the installation?

As I recall, Civ3/PTW/C3C install directx seperately from the program itself. it gets installed after the game installation finishes. So is it the game installation or the directx installation?

game installation. The installer already says that i have a newer version of directx and that it doesn't need to be installed, but during the installation of the game the files are copied, and thats where it gets stuck. I don't know why the files are copied, they're not needed.