Ok, got bored of playing Civ 2, so just bought and d/l Civ 3 Complete via Steam.
Installs fine.
Go to load it up and all i get is a black screen. Thats it. It doesnt get any further and I end up having to use Task Manager to get back to the desktop.
I've looked through the forums and found similar if not the same problems here, here, here, here and here.
Basically I was wondering if anyone had found or know of a way to fix this issue. One forum I visited had a post on it saying that the user had phoned 2K games support and they'd said that it would never work on Vista. I can't verify this as i cant find a UK number or even an email for 2K
Steam lists the recommended OS as 98/ME/2000/XP with associated compatible video and sound cards plus DirectX 9.0b or higher, which makes me think that it should work on Vista.
Another post suggests downgrading to XP - a) i wouldnt know where to start off doing something like that, and b) the upgrade cost me £99 so I want my money's worth!
Another post suggests making sure you have the latest video drivers - my machine is just under a year and a half old so I would have thought I'd have nearly the latest but I cant find my video card on nVidia's site.
For info, I'm running Vista Home Premium, with a AMD 64 X2 TL-50 mobile chip, nVidia Geforce Go 7600 Video card with DirectX10
Help would be much appreciated as I've otherwise just wasted £15ish quid on something that I cant use without hauling my huge desktop machine around.
Installs fine.
Go to load it up and all i get is a black screen. Thats it. It doesnt get any further and I end up having to use Task Manager to get back to the desktop.
I've looked through the forums and found similar if not the same problems here, here, here, here and here.
Basically I was wondering if anyone had found or know of a way to fix this issue. One forum I visited had a post on it saying that the user had phoned 2K games support and they'd said that it would never work on Vista. I can't verify this as i cant find a UK number or even an email for 2K
Steam lists the recommended OS as 98/ME/2000/XP with associated compatible video and sound cards plus DirectX 9.0b or higher, which makes me think that it should work on Vista.
Another post suggests downgrading to XP - a) i wouldnt know where to start off doing something like that, and b) the upgrade cost me £99 so I want my money's worth!
Another post suggests making sure you have the latest video drivers - my machine is just under a year and a half old so I would have thought I'd have nearly the latest but I cant find my video card on nVidia's site.
For info, I'm running Vista Home Premium, with a AMD 64 X2 TL-50 mobile chip, nVidia Geforce Go 7600 Video card with DirectX10
Help would be much appreciated as I've otherwise just wasted £15ish quid on something that I cant use without hauling my huge desktop machine around.