Recent content by Hermes

Hmm I wonder if Firaxis really intended this to be Sumeria, has it been confirmed? The reason I ask is because the city Akkad (Aggade) and the ruler Sargon is actually post-sumerian period (which was characterized by independent city-states). Sargon came from the northern part of mesopotamia...

Excuse me my ignorance, but could you explain me why?

Cro-magnon refers to the first homo sapiens sapiens in europe living around 35.000-10.000 years ago. Neanderthals are designated Homo Sapiens Neandethalis and we are designated Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Neanderthals and homo sapiens sapiens might not have been so different as you suggest, it is...

Not to be nittpicking here - just an interesting tidbit of information: Neanderthals were actually a different species than homo sapiens sapiens (what we are) - at the current level of understanding neanderthals and homo sapiens sapiens were results of a split in the evolution line around...

Well, neither Persian or Incan are dead languages.... There is only a couple of dead languages we don't know how sounds, and works etc..... Mayan I think, and one of those from Kreta (Liniar B or something like that)... Persian is spoken today in Iran (sure it's a bit different than...

I had the same problem as you had - and I have the same graphic card - only the unpak fix solved it.... So I hope you will be patient 'till they make a unpak utility for win 2000 - the game is worth it.....

See here for a possibble solution... http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=133147

Trip from Firaxis has just posted this in the Main Forums: So you need to completely uninstall you graphic card drivers.... I'm not sure exactly how to do that... but someone here might....

I don't have the game yet, but I have an suggestion: In the error message it just says 'failed to initialize renderer', so I thought that it might be the video renderer that failed initialize - and not the 3d renderer. So try this: Download one of the many video codec packages that is out...

I don't know if this will work, but it fixed a similar problem I had with another game in the past. = Get one of the many video codec packages that is out there, they should contain all the most common video codex's (google 'video codex'). Also restart when you have installed the codex' - and...

Jeez, what has our civilization come to? People just don't have patience anymore. All this anger for no reason just leads to the dark side - being a childish and angry barbarian....

Currently studying masters in Near-oriental archaeology....

hahahahaaa

I think generic religions is just as fun as generic civilizations. *foreign advisor looking shocked: Generic civ 2 has declared war on generic civ 7* My point is that part of what makes civ fun is that you recognize things and then change history with known elements.....

Maybe leaderheads will age?