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Oh, sorry ... I've never seen this ... and my friend, who has been playing a lot, hasn't seen it either. But now that I know it exists ... I can seek it out. Thanks!

I would like to see some improvements to improve some basic game mechanics of playing: 1) Allow a mechanism to convert a multiplayer game (direct IP or other) to a Play by Email game. It's an obvious use case ... There is almost nothing to do early, so the game turns go very fast early --...

Is this still not possible with the most recent patches? It seems a very obvious use case ... since there's very little to do in the first several dozen turns, my friend and I started a direct connection game and played for about an hours. But we can't commit to being online at the same time...

Hi, As I promised, I am posting a follow up to describe the solution. I received help from take2support. The person suggested that I install the most recent version of Direct X 9.0c. I did this, and attempted to reinstall the patch, but I received the same error again. I repeated...

Hi Furiey, I have just the standard Civ 4 game, no add ons or expansions (yet), and I have a store-bought CD version. I just received an email from take2support, advising me to install the newest DirectX update. I did this, but it did not help. I still get exactly the same errors. Any ideas...

Hi, I'm running Windows 7 (64 bit) and I just tried installing the latest patch, 1.74. The installation appeared to fail, with the error: Error 1706. No valid source could be found for product Sid Meier's Civilization 4. The Windows Installer cannot continue. This happened pretty...