Civ works bad on PC

[Minkus]

Hi, i had the same problems on with the original Civ going really, really slow in Win98, and for some reason it is when you play the game with Soundblaster (or whatever) sounds and music or even no sounds at all, the game runs terribly slow.

when i started the game with the computer speaker sounds turned on it played at a normal resonable speed!!!! i dont have an axplanation for this, maybe it is just my computer but if u cant be bothered upgrading, downloading anything or getting a dos boot disk try it out! i would love to hear if it works!

I found this as well, that the game went at normal speed if you enabled the PC speaker option (sound option 2 from memory).

However, I since found an even better solution. If you've got a reasonable-speed computer, get a copy of DosBox (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/). This is a full DOS emulator for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and a whole other load of operating systems, and it includes SoundBlaster emulation and everything! It will run the original DOS Civilization at full speed, with SoundBlaster emulation enabled!

All you need to do is download and install a copy, and then when that's done run it and execute the following command (if you're using Windows, which I guess most people will be):

mount C C:\

This will mount C:\ as the C drive inside DosBox.

Then just use CD to change to the Civ directory and run CIV.EXE. It should work fine!

If you edit 'dosbox.conf' at the end there is an 'Autoexec' option which will let you put in commands to run every time. So if you only want to run Civ through DosBox, put something like this in:

mount C C:\
C:
CD \CIV
CIV.EXE
EXIT

Hope this helps some people out!