Different Drives

conuil · Jul 29, 2003, 04:09 AM

Civ 3 seems to install on the C: drive no matter what. It doesn't give you the option to specify another drive. Theres about 450mb left on C: afterwards which is fine unless I want to install PTW. PTW will take up about 400mb leaving only 50 free which I assume will slow the game down.

Is it possible to get Civ3 to install to another drive, or can I install PTW on a different drive to Civ3?

Any help appreciated.

zulu9812 · Jul 29, 2003, 05:42 AM

PTW is actually installed into a sub-folder of CivIII, so obviously it needs to be on the same drive (I haven't actually heard of an XP that doesn't install to a sub-folder of the main game)

conuil · Jul 29, 2003, 09:50 AM

Thats what I was thinking. But its wierd that they give you a choice in PTW, but not in the original game. So the choice in PTW is redundant.

Unless they use fully qualified paths?

Crazy Eddie · Jul 29, 2003, 10:53 AM

You can install to whatever drive you want, Civ3 is on drive E on my comp.

conuil · Jul 31, 2003, 04:25 AM

Thanks Eddie, must have missed that one. I'll try reinstalling.

zulu9812 · Jul 31, 2003, 07:45 AM

It's true that you can install CivIII on any hard drive you want, but PTW still needs to go in a sub-folder of CivIII

Jul 29, 2003, 04:09 AM	#1
conuil Chieftain Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 55	Different Drives Civ 3 seems to install on the C: drive no matter what. It doesn't give you the option to specify another drive. Theres about 450mb left on C: afterwards which is fine unless I want to install PTW. PTW will take up about 400mb leaving only 50 free which I assume will slow the game down. Is it possible to get Civ3 to install to another drive, or can I install PTW on a different drive to Civ3? Any help appreciated. __________________ I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) (plain vanilla civ, emporer)

Jul 29, 2003, 05:42 AM	#2
zulu9812 The Newbie Nightmare Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Athens of the North Posts: 6,378	PTW is actually installed into a sub-folder of CivIII, so obviously it needs to be on the same drive (I haven't actually heard of an XP that doesn't install to a sub-folder of the main game) __________________ UP THE IRONS! Get the inside story on the war in Iraq , The War Prayer My Units Field Gun, Carthage Pikeman, Rome Pikeman, Viking Spearman My Leaderheads Dwarf Lord, Dark Elf My tutorials How to make Leaderheads in Poser, Using Daz's Michael 3 for Unit Creation

Jul 29, 2003, 09:50 AM	#3
conuil Chieftain Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 55	Thats what I was thinking. But its wierd that they give you a choice in PTW, but not in the original game. So the choice in PTW is redundant. Unless they use fully qualified paths? __________________ I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) (plain vanilla civ, emporer)

Jul 31, 2003, 04:25 AM	#5
conuil Chieftain Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 55	Thanks Eddie, must have missed that one. I'll try reinstalling. __________________ I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) (plain vanilla civ, emporer)

Jul 31, 2003, 07:45 AM	#6
zulu9812 The Newbie Nightmare Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Athens of the North Posts: 6,378	It's true that you can install CivIII on any hard drive you want, but PTW still needs to go in a sub-folder of CivIII __________________ UP THE IRONS! Get the inside story on the war in Iraq , The War Prayer My Units Field Gun, Carthage Pikeman, Rome Pikeman, Viking Spearman My Leaderheads Dwarf Lord, Dark Elf My tutorials How to make Leaderheads in Poser, Using Daz's Michael 3 for Unit Creation

Jul 29, 2003, 10:53 AM	#4
Crazy Eddie Genial drunkard Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 878	You can install to whatever drive you want, Civ3 is on drive E on my comp.

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