Can't get past the opening blurb...

[Gislef]

Apologies if this has been asked before.

Running Conquests in Windows XP, have the Conquests patch installed. I boot up the program normally, it flashes the mini-screen (as it were) with the samurai, and Atari and all that - you can still see the desktop and all, and...well, stops. No bump on the CD drive. No sound. No nothing.

If I bring up the Windows Task Manager it says that there are no applications running, but if I check processes, it does say that the CIv3 executable is active. I can end the process but otherwise the opening little mini-screen will just sit there, forever and ever.

Annoying thing is that sometimes I can get it to work, but I don't do anything different then the (now multiple) times that it doesn't work.

Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Chieftess]

This sometimes happens to me (winXP). Under the processes list, look for any tmp files. You can delete those. Also, try running the C3C program a few times. Sometimes it takes awhile.

 

[Gislef]

Not sure what you mean by "temp files" under processes. One gets created when you actrually start running it ("~ed1451.tmp" or something like that), but deleting it doesn't change anything in the current executable.

But yeah, it restarted on the next attempt. Although I did go directly to the Conquests folder and activated the executable from theer. Although that shouldn't make a difference and in fact didn't the next couple of times I tried today.

But yeah, I used to be able to restart it after one or two attempts - now it's taking 9-10.

 

[Chieftess]

Not sure what you mean by "temp files" under processes. One gets created when you actrually start running it ("~ed1451.tmp" or something like that), but deleting it doesn't change anything in the current executable.

But yeah, it restarted on the next attempt. Although I did go directly to the Conquests folder and activated the executable from theer. Although that shouldn't make a difference and in fact didn't the next couple of times I tried today.

But yeah, I used to be able to restart it after one or two attempts - now it's taking 9-10.

Yes, that, and the other Civ3Conquests.exe process. I'm not sure why it doesn't like Win XP though. Occasionally, it takes 5 minutes before it decides to start.

 

[Gislef]

Still no one with a definitive answer on this? If anything, it's getting worse. I've got tyry and boot it 10-15 times to get it to work. But then sometimes it'll start after one try.

Conquests doesn't do me much good if I can't play it...