skallabjorn
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Interesting. The tool was working under W10 last week. I was just wondering if I had inadvertently changed a setting, or if I got boned by an update.
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To run this tool on windows 10/11 or any other modern windows you need to install "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package" for x86, you can get it here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26999 (vcredist_x86.exe - setup file name)
(I am even ran it on windows 11 arm!, also the game works on w11arm)
Does arm have an x86 compatibility mode?!
Yes, arm windows 11 preview can run x86 applications native(I dont know all or some, but civ3, and c3mt works fine)Does arm have an x86 compatibility mode?!
I ended up trying the tool. . . found it a bit too confusing for what I was looking for so I uninstalled it. Now all my editors have the following errors:
^there are perhaps a dozen or more errors like above before it finally opens, thankfully the mod I'm working on works fine once loaded, but if trying to mess around from scratch there is nothing, (despite all the files in the correct location.
Followed by:
If I select "ignore"
^there are perhaps a dozen or more errors like above before it finally opens, thankfully the mod I'm working on works fine once loaded, but if trying to mess around from scratch there is nothing, (despite all the files in the correct location.
Did you install it into a subdirectory of the Civ3 installation? Looks like the uninstall then deleted that directory including the Civ3 files...
You will probably need to uninstall and reinstall Civ3 to get these files back...
You will probably need to uninstall and reinstall Civ3 to get these files back...
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... oh good god, what did I do?!
Thing is I checked those files they are not missing, they are right there in the correct location. I should add the editor works fine on the mod I'm working on, just does not seem to be able to register vanilla art items.
Of not when I uninstalled it did mention something to the extent of "do you want to uninstall a system32 file which no program is using". . . perhaps there was a directory or something there indexing what to find???
Hello!
I need to use the SaveGame editor. It seems to work perfectly if I just edit the .SAV files but whenever I try to export them to .BIQ and then I try to run them using the Civ3Conquest Editor, it says "Error: not a valid Civ3 scenario".
I tried many times but apparently there's no way to make the editor read the .biq files converted with C3MT.
Can anyone help me? Thanks!
I need to use the SaveGame editor. It seems to work perfectly if I just edit the .SAV files but whenever I try to export them to .BIQ and then I try to run them using the Civ3Conquest Editor, it says "Error: not a valid Civ3 scenario".
I tried many times but apparently there's no way to make the editor read the .biq files converted with C3MT.
Can anyone help me? Thanks!
sirati97
Chieftain
Hello everyone,
i have used Process Monitor to analyse why C3MT is crashing on my device:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Gramphos\C3MT#CheckExpire
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Gramphos\C3MT#CheckForUpdates
if either of these exist it will crash with a buffer overflow.
as a temporary work around you can delete these entries and then it should work again
i have used Process Monitor to analyse why C3MT is crashing on my device:
It turns out the updating mechanism tried to read the following registry keys:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Gramphos\C3MT#CheckExpire
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Gramphos\C3MT#CheckForUpdates
if either of these exist it will crash with a buffer overflow.
as a temporary work around you can delete these entries and then it should work again
20 years and one month later, here I am trying to install the full version after having installed Civ 3 Complete... and I get this error:
I apologise if this has been asked and answered before, but I really do not have the patience to wade through 30+ pages of comments...
Would I be overstepping my bounds if I requested Gramphos to consider editing their original post to incorporate FAQs to answer known issues and their fixes into it?
Anyone else that would consider answering a useful resolution would be very much welcome to do so.
Thanking everyone kindly for their efforts, from now.
Kind regards,
Icer 66
You could try running the installation as Administrator. If that doesn't help, I would say too much has been changed in the Windows OS over the last 20 years... Especially with OLE, COM and Visual Basic (which more or less got replaced by the .NET world...) There is probably not much hope of getting this outdated software to run on today's Windows... :-(
If you're up to it, buy the ~$5 Complete version from GOG. It also has an offline installer which you can use to set up and play the game without using the GOG cloud.
So you are suggesting I uninstall Civ III and then reinstall as Admin? If other replies do not resolve my predicament, I will try this. Thank you Lanzelot
Ozymandias, this is the Complete version, from GOG that I am looking to edit saves with
Thank you for the advice Takhisis, no, I have not tried that. Are you suggesting that I can install this in compatibility mode? I will give this a try, if so.
I did do that last night (14:28 in Melbourne Australia right now) and was able to successfully install it.
I now need to learn how to use the software, as when I add stuff (read, wonders), I get errors. I have to ignore them and save that way.
One thing though, I added all of the Wonders to a save, to see how it ran… I got that warning again and ignored them (around 20 of them). When I returned to the game and loaded it, unfortunately I received a cultural defeat, I think. I will try doing this again and screen-shotting it (ooh! I may even screen record and upload it to YouTube… do not hold your breaths though) so you can all see what I am talking about. Probably within the next two hours… If not, then by the weekend.
