Well, here's to a hearty Welcome Back for a very helpful ex-lurker !
Short version: The above information from Toxicman007 is correct: The older version of CivAssist is the one that will work under Windows 10. I had previously tried to use the newer version and nothing worked. I could get it to see the save files but never to open them. However after installing the old version everything worked as advertised.
Long version: I will now write a longer explanation for people like me who are not very technically savvy and need the steps clearly outlined. These are the steps I followed:
- open the download link (the one from the first page of the thread - this one: https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/civassist-ii.21/ )
- click on "version history" and select the lower option (the one with release date "Jul 26, 2006")
- it will download an installer. Run it and let the program install itself. Then let it install the .net framework when prompted
- right click on the installed CivAssist.exe (or on its shortcut if you created one) and choose "run as administrator" just to make sure. Once it opens, click on "file" to check that it sees your existing save files (it did for me).
- after starting CivAssist, start a game of Civilization 3 and you should see the CivAssist icon in game, with information from your latest autosave.
Thank you for the kind words. I am honored by them and glad that I could help.Thank you!!!!!!
I've re-registered on this site (old account was tied to a long-gone email account) just to say that to you. Though no doubt I'll continue to be around on this excellent site...
CivIII is just not the same without CivAssist. I searched for so long trying to figure this problem out, until I found your post. It deserves stickying.
The newer version gave me constant errors like "Parameter path1 cannot be NULL", "Access blocked" when opening a file, and wouldn't work in Lookout mode at all. The "Access blocked" problem was just untraceable: neither Windows logs nor BitDefender (the other possible culprit) had any record of any denied attempted access at the OS/antivirus level.
Now that I've downloaded the old version, I am a happy CIV-er!
OS: Windows 10 Pro, build 19043.1415
CIV and CivAssist installed well outside the Windows or Program Files pain-zone, of course (in fact, on a different drive from the OS).
I think the asterisk might actually be a tag for "Wasting food".some of the city Sizes are in red, with a *. That seems to apply to 6-towns with no Aqueduct, or 12-cities with no Hospital. But why are metros >12 also showing this * ? A bug?
Once towns contain population points above the Size-2 cap (=Pop12 in the epic game), or pollution-generating buildings, the in-game city-screen will start showing pollution-icons (1 icon per pop-point over Pop12; building-pollution is based on the .biq-setting for that building, e.g. Factories add 2 icons).There's a useful-looking Pollution column - but I can't figure out what it means
Hi everyone! I am a long time fan of the Civilization series (and long time lurker on these forums). I recently, due to the current events, found myself with a lot of free time and decided to go back to playing Civ 3 after a gap of many years, and today I was for the first time able to get CivAssist to run under Windows 10. So being still euphoric after this succes I finally decided to sign up on the forums to report it.
Short version: The above information from Toxicman007 is correct: The older version of CivAssist is the one that will work under Windows 10. I had previously tried to use the newer version and nothing worked. I could get it to see the save files but never to open them. However after installing the old version everything worked as advertised.
Long version: I will now write a longer explanation for people like me who are not very technically savvy and need the steps clearly outlined. These are the steps I followed:
- open the download link (the one from the first page of the thread - this one: https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/civassist-ii.21/ )
- click on "version history" and select the lower option (the one with release date "Jul 26, 2006")
- it will download an installer. Run it and let the program install itself. Then let it install the .net framework when prompted
- right click on the installed CivAssist.exe (or on its shortcut if you created one) and choose "run as administrator" just to make sure. Once it opens, click on "file" to check that it sees your existing save files (it did for me).
- after starting CivAssist, start a game of Civilization 3 and you should see the CivAssist icon in game, with information from your latest autosave.
In summary, this is what I did and it worked for me. From the above conversation I understand that for some users this utility may not work at all under windows 10. But if you are reading this thread and think you are one of the lucky ones this is the way to find out.
Some more info:
- I have the Steam version of Civ3 Complete
- I use Windows 10 (obviously) and I have reinstalled Windows about a month ago, so it is a relatively clean install
- A curious thing about the .net framework: I tried to manually download it and was told that I allready have the latest version on my computer and that no older versions can be installed. However, when running the CivAssist installer, it promplted me to install the .net framework (I think it was asking for an older version), I clicked "Yes" and it did its thing without any issue.
I hope this information will help at least someone.
Best regards and Happy Easter to anyone who is celebrating it these days!
Tried it all again, still get "Unhandled exception has occurred in your application...."This didn't work for me. Still got the "access is blocked" errors.
However, using compability mode fixed it!
Thanks for getting me 90% there
For others trying to get it working (some steps may or may not be necessary):
-Follow the above instructions.
-Create a shortcut to the civ .exe (I've only tried with conquests) and the civassist .exe.
-With both shortcuts: Preferences -> advanced -> run as administrator. And: preferences -> compability -> run in compability mode for Windows XP service pack 3.
-Both civ and civassist are installed outside of ProgramFiles.
I think I've only had that error when I tried using the newer version (from 2016 if I remember correctly).Tried it all again, still get "Unhandled exception has occurred in your application...."
Not recently, but I did it a couple times with no result. I might have the newer version, but I don't think so.I think I've only had that error when I tried using the newer version (from 2016 if I remember correctly).
I've only been able to get the older version working.
I may be wrong, but that sounds like it could be a .NET-related issue.
Have you tried reinstalling the .NET-runtime framework, and/or make sure you have the correct version?
This is totally awesome! Worked for me, too!!I just got this to work on Win11! Just download the older version, 2.05 not 2.06.
It's the file from 2006 with 16k downloads. Run the installer, let it download the older .NET framework, and it ran for me. I was never able to get this to run in the past, but maybe I was just trying to run the newer file which doesn't seem to work for anyone.