Recent content by David Pritchard

Just don't put the CivII CD in when running CivII, then put the music CD which you want and play it with a standard CD player program.

OK, I've just got CivII (classic, v2.42) working perfectly, so I'll tell how I did it. Really I've just sewn together the stuff I've read in other posts. - Installed WinG from CivII setup - Did *not* install Video for Windows during CivII setup. If you did this already, delete Ir41.dll from...

I'm sort of repeating myself here, because I put this in the last thread, but I advise uninstalling Video for Windows to fix the crash problems. I assume you installed it as prompted during CivII setup -- it seems like there are problems with the old Video for Windows and Win2k. Will continue...

With all due respect, I'm sure he installed Windows 2000 because it's an excellent operating system, light years ahead of its predecessors. The reason there are crash problems is because CivII isn't even a Windows 95 application; it's an old 16-bit Windows program which ran OK in Windows 9x...

By the way, I'm running CivII classic version 2.42, and the high council videos don't work either. David Pritchard

Yep, it seems like there is a way to run CivII on Win2k, at least for me. What happened to me was that, having the CD in the drive and starting CivII at first caused a crash. As I discovered on this forum, the way to fix the crash is to run the WinG install from the CD. What you *shouldn't*...