Civ 3 on Win 7?

[jjake101]

Does CIV III work on Windows 7? Ive been playing CIV 4 for a while and ive been thinking about buying Civ 3 complete on steam

 

[shultz]

Yes - I've been playing C3C on Win7 for over a year. Very few crashes (No more than on WinXP)

 

[MPK]

Just avoid Program Files (x86) ,,,,

 

[vmxa]

I have it working on Win7 on one PC and now on Win8 on another.

 

[robbus]

I have it working with one lockup so far on win7.

I installed civ3/4 complete on win7. Opening credits do not display but game plays fine other than initial lockup I had.

CIVIIassist is not currently working in win7 though. I have managed to install it but when it runs anerror occurs.

I haven't tried civ 4 seems to work ok...

 

[Quintillus]

Just avoid Program Files (x86) ,,,,

To expand on this a bit...

You can avoid a number of issues/annoyances (in particular, with modding, but also with save games being difficult to find) by installing to somewhere other than C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86). For example, C:\Civilization III, C:\Games\Civilization III, or if you have a second hard drive, D:\Civilization III.

The reason is that this sidesteps a feature of Vista, 7, and 8 that makes it difficult to modify files in C:\Program Files and C:\Program Files (x86), as well as a few other locations such as C:\Windows. That feature does theoretically increase security, as it makes it harder for malicious software to change files in those areas, which is where most programs are installed. However it also results in it being a lot more difficult for regular people to intentionally change the files here (be it for modding, finding save games, or something else). So, for older programs including Civ3, it can be a lot easier to just install it somewhere else and not deal with the hassle.

Whether Civ3 plays fine when installed in the default location on Vista/7 seems to vary somewhat. But if you ever do anything mod-related, you want to be sure it is not installed in the default location.

(I can't help with many more particulars, as I switched back to XP half a decade ago. But I'm sure others can)

CIVIIassist is not currently working in win7 though. I have managed to install it but when it runs anerror occurs.

What's the error? I've heard it's possible to get CAII working in Win7, at least most of the time. Puppeteer's video demo here is reported to be helpful in getting it installed/working when it's initially problematic, though being on XP I haven't tried it myself.

 

[MPK]

I got CivAssist II to work fine using Puppeteer's install programme. He also has a video on installing Civ3 game onto Windows 7. If i can get them to work, anyone can.

 

[robbus]

So my home computer is xp and I am playing c3c.

I started up a game on windows7 and want to transfer the .sav files to my xp computer. But as quintillus pointed out I cannot find them.

Any idea of how to retrieve them?

 

[vmxa]

Yes it is no problem. First you can go to the start menu and use the search to locate the files. If they show in the search, right click and select properties. This gives the location.

They will be in the ProgramFiles(x86), if you ran the game as admin. If not, then they will be in one of the User subdirectories. I would go to user and drill down to appdata.

It will have three folders, roaming local and Localflow. Drill down on one till you find it. You often see Window folder or Microsoft drill down them looking for either the Inforgramme or Programfiles.

It can be a pain, if you are not able to search. The search needs to be at the whole drive level.