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    Newbie Questions - Ask here and get Answers!

    No gold I have played many games. I noticed that there is no penalty forhaving a zero gold trasury for as long as you want, except the fact that if I have no gold, I cannot buy anything. Is it a bug, or a feature of the game? It allows to progress very quickly, because I allow around 20% for...
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    Civilization III Fixes (PLEASE READ)

    Yes, I have al the new drivers for the graphic and the sound cards. I suspect that the problem has a relation with the Via chipset. A similar problem is described with the nVidia cards and the Via chipser and Windows XP (see viaarena.com). Does somebody else with a Via chipset also have this...
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    Civilization III Fixes (PLEASE READ)

    I cannot play with Civ3. The patch (the good one) does not help, my system still locks up after maybe 30-50 turns, i.e the hourglass appears from nowhere, nothing answers, even control-alt-delete, and I have to use the emergency switch to shut and restart the system. I wrote for...
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    Civilization III Fixes (PLEASE READ)

    I did not succeed to play Civ3, since I bougt it a month ago, on my main system. Yes I have a Via chipset and a Soundblaster Live X-Gamer sound card. I also have Windows XP, ATI Radeon 64 VIVO, 768 Meg RAM, 60 Gig HDD (I have five partitions, and the CD-ROM has been attributed the letter...
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    Constant Lockups

    As you have seen in other threads, I have exactly the same problem. The only common ground seems to be the large amount of RAM, and use of a SoundBlaster card (Live X Gamer for me, 512 for you). I also use Via drivers for the Abit motherboard. Yesyerday, I tried to use Unsafedisc 2.4.10...
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    Civilization III Fixes (PLEASE READ)

    I posted it under another thread bu had no answer. Some help here ? I cannot play very long, ( around five to six minutes, like 50 turns)because my system freezes, and I have to restart the computer. Maybe the computer tries ti access the CD ROM because I hear a sound for some time (i waited...
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    Civ3 freezes

    I cannot play very long, ( around five to six minutes, like 50 turns)because my system freezes, and I have to restart the computer. I have a Windows XP system with NTFS, 768 Meg Ram, 61,4 Gig Hdd, Ati Radeon 64 ViVO with the most recent drivers, SoundBlaster Live X Gamer with new drivers...
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