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Dec 25, 2001, 09:21 PM
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Paper copying intern
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Cesspool on the Potomic.
Posts: 1,474
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Game won't load, no error message
I installed the game today, then patched up to 1.16. Then I tried opening, to once again begin dominating the world.
I got the first screen, with a tower and Civ III shown. Screen leaves, and I prepare for the game to load and see that lovely intro movie. Never happens.  Not even an error message, it just doesn't load. I'm following everything the trouble-shooting file says. I checked out tech-support, is it possible I am experiencing the Safe-Disk problem. I already e-mailed them about this, but they seem to be rather sticky about sending out a copy. Fortunately, I live in the US. Any other things I should be doing, or any other idea what could be causing a problem. Using a Toshiba labtop 2060 CDS, 160 RAM, latest Direct X, etc, and have run games that I thought were more system intensive than this one would be.
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Dec 26, 2001, 03:14 PM
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Chieftain
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Aurora, IL
Posts: 1
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Having same problem
I am having the exact same problem. If you haven't tried this yet, press ESC as soon as the white screen appears. If you can do this before the game locks up, you will be able to play.
 It seems that the movie is the only problem. I haven't found a permanent fix for the movie yet, though.I will be on the lookout and let you know if I find anything to fix this. I would appreciate the same. Happy ruling! |
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Jan 02, 2002, 05:02 AM
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Warlord
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: London UK
Posts: 101
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Hi
You have no doubt solved this by now but if not this may be helpful. I have spent hours trying to get civ.3 to run on a Dell Laptop despite it being well over the stated game specs in every respect. Tech-support said it was either the safe disk protection or the laptops refresh rate. Anyhow (no thanks to tech-support) I have got it running by adding Video Mode=1024 KeepRes=1 to the end of the civililization.ini file AND connecting to an external monitor (17"). Oddly it then runs perfectly on the laptop screen as well. Just got to work out how to get it to run when it is not connected to a monitor. |
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Jan 02, 2002, 11:47 PM
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Paper copying intern
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Cesspool on the Potomic.
Posts: 1,474
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Well, the problem hasn't gone away, so dumb question time. Where do I find and open civilization.ini?
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Jan 05, 2002, 10:06 AM
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Warlord
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: London UK
Posts: 101
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It should be in the civiliztion folder but no doubt you have loked there. I think it only gets written when you have run the game the first time, so if you have not been able to run it at all it may be absent.
I'll send you a copy of my ini file if you mail me rblarkins@aol.com, you can try that. |
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