Erebras
Prince
Civ3ConquestsEdit is loading several error messages basically saying cannot locate Play the World or Conquests. Three options: Abort, Retry, Ignore. If I hit Abort it ends the program (obvious). Retry merely repeats the current error (obvious). Ignore says it cannot locate PTW -- something like "make sure the program is correctly installed and try again" -- then says the same thing about Conquests, then if you hit Ignore again, there is a succession of about twenty or thirty popup windows that says it cannot open various graphic PCXs in the Terrain directory (such as, say, xggc or Cities/Roman), and the only option is to hit an OK button. Then CivEdit loads up with most of the screen black or blank, because, obviously, it didn't access the required graphic files.
My workaround such as it is was to copy and paste the PCXs it could not load from the Art folder in the vanilla directory into the proper place in the Conquests folder, including the Cities and the Palettes in the Units folder. Then CivEdit opened up and could generate a random map with no obvious problem.
This happened even after I uninstalled the game and reinstalled Civ 3 Complete from GameFly. I'm using Windows 8.1 (against my will, mind you...I'm not far from exploring my Apple options).
I believe this is some strange software error, probably something corrupted. But I hope a wise and knowledgeable technophile sees this thread and says, "Piece of cake. Download this [insert file name here] from the Microsoft website and everything will be hunky-dory."
My workaround such as it is was to copy and paste the PCXs it could not load from the Art folder in the vanilla directory into the proper place in the Conquests folder, including the Cities and the Palettes in the Units folder. Then CivEdit opened up and could generate a random map with no obvious problem.
This happened even after I uninstalled the game and reinstalled Civ 3 Complete from GameFly. I'm using Windows 8.1 (against my will, mind you...I'm not far from exploring my Apple options).
I believe this is some strange software error, probably something corrupted. But I hope a wise and knowledgeable technophile sees this thread and says, "Piece of cake. Download this [insert file name here] from the Microsoft website and everything will be hunky-dory."