Recent content by magicpiper

Thanks a lot for the help! But I went ahead and formatted my hard drive (yes, I'm that desperate to play Civ3, but it needed to be done anyway) and it works perfectly! So I guess I definitely must have f'ed up the installation or something. Even my year old save game works fine! Thanks...

So I've been having a couple problems with the game ever since I put it back on my hard drive a couple days ago. Basically, it'll load up fine, but when I click New Game, it'll run the little percent-ometer, but then upon reaching 100%, the game will just stop. I can move my mouse around but...

I just started my first game, I'm the French. My general strategy in Civ2 was to not build settlers in a city before it already had good defensive units and the basic city improvements. That worked well in Civ2, but I tried it here in Civ3 and it turns out that all the other civs (15 of them...

mine doesn't work either :( I tried to get just CivIII, but it wouldn't happen (it's less than $50, of course), but then I added Europa Universalis II (with separate shipping, which brought the total up to about $90) but it still wouldn't happen. I tried the other coupon but that wouldn't...