Recent content by Blackjack

Civ 3 is the only game I've had severe problems with in at least five years. Every time I hear anything from either Infogrames or Firaxis, they make it sound like it's your fault if you can't get it to run right (or can't get it to run at all, as the case may be.) Never mind the fact that...

Weird things happen to save game files sometimes. But, if you start a new whole new game and it ends up doing the exact same thing, then that's probably a bug like you said.

You have to be running at least 1024x768 screen resolution when you run the editor to be able to access all of those screens.

What you described in that thread sounds like a corrupted save file to me. Unfortunately, if so, the only thing you can do then is go further and further back into your autosaves until you get to a point before it went wrong. It wouldn't really be a bug unless it does that in every game you...

You must not play many computer games if you haven't yet been broken of that. Give it a try, just in case it works. It's what I have to do, even though I made sure all my drivers are current too.

...running in Win98 compatability mode yet? Running the WinXP compatability wizard doesn't seem to do it right, you need to it manually. Right click over the Civ3 desktop icon and go to properties and then go to the compatability tab.

Finally running the game with the patch now. I'm having a few graphical errors now that weren't there before the patch, but it's much better than nothing. Hopefully they will get dealt with in the next patch (as well as the SafeDisk problem so I don't have to do all this again... though it...

I'm so very glad to know that they're on the color bug, even if it is (understandably) a low priority. Especially since its low priority status implies that other bugs are being addressed (hopefully that blasted SafeDisk fault! Aaaargh! Easily the most aggravating problem I've had with any game...

WinZip won't decompress the file, doesn't seem to recognize ace format. Could you mail me the good exe? You should be able to from my profile.

Is the only one I've ever tried running, and it has never worked. I didn't get there in time to get the first version of 1.16f, which was posted only briefly before it was "fixed." Judging by my most recent response from Infogrames, it does not seem to have sunk in that people are still...

Until now I was just about convinced that I was the only one having the color-related crash problem, though that has quickly become the least of my concerns now that I too have fallen victim to the faulty copy protetection and can't run the game with the patch, which I had hoped would fix this...

But what do you do with the file once you download it from Gamecopyworld? It says to replace the current Civilization III exe, which I assumed meant changing the name of the file you download to "Civilization3.exe", and pasting it over the one in your Civ3 folder. The game still won't launch...

The only solution is to set your monitor to 1024x768 or higher before loading the editor. I have to switch from 800x600 to a higher resolution whenever I go to use it. Very annoying.

Too bad, if so, that was really nice of them to come by and help back in November, but they're probably fighting a losing battle. Okay, here's a problem that I reported a while back that I suspect I was possibly given an error message response form-letter in reply to. I had no problems...

Well, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one having trouble getting the game to run after installing the supposedly "fixed for WinXP" iteration of the patch (as opposed to the first one released.) Same here, I have to uninstall everything and then reinstall minus the patch to get the game up and...