Civ2 under Windows2000

[tamora]

Has anyone had any luck getting Civ2 to run under Windows2000?

I was previously using WindowsNT, which I don't think is an officially supported OS, but Civ2 worked fine.

I upgraded to Windows 2000 Professional. Civ2 installs okay. When I try to run the app, I get as far as the message about the CD not being found, and select OK. Then an Application Error message appears: "CIV2 caused a Stack Fault in module IR41.DLL at 0002:019D. Choose close. CIV2 will close."

Anyone know of a fix or patch?

 

[Thunderfall]

sorry, i have no idea.

I was going to upgrade to win2000 but decided not to after I heard this compatibility problem...

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

. I understand that "windows millenium" is the windows 2000 version recomended for home platforms & games.

. have you heard the new new release date for windows 2000 ver 2,
first quarter of 1901

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[This message has been edited by Lefty Scaevola (edited October 28, 2000).]

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[Lefty Scaevola]

. Ihave seen a thread on the apolyton forums regarding the windows 2000 conflict. The windows 2000 32 bit systems has some trouble with several 16 bit programs such as civ2. The soulution mention in the thread is simething called "winG" I did not clearly understand what this was from the post but it appears to be some conversion utility add on for win2000. the post indicated it was on the "disk" apparentl;y reffering to the win2000 program disk, or that it could be obtained at http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/wing/1/win98/EN-US/wing10.exe
. the post was by Catullus (another roman) from norway

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[SunTzu]

<font face="papyrus"><font color="navy"> The requirements for Civ2 Gold, is that it should be ran on Windows95 or newer. atleast 33mhz Recommended Pentium 60mhz
Double speed cd-rom drive or faster Atleast 16mb of ram.
It should be able to run on win2000 so says the manual. Maybe it's not the OS maybe its the CD or something else on your PC try reinstalling Civ2

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[Lefty Scaevola]

the thread at apolyton is in their civ2 general/community forum. I brought it back up to the top there 5 minutes ago but their forums are very active. the thread is at http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum1/HTML/001469.html?4

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[This message has been edited by Lefty Scaevola (edited October 28, 2000).]

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[damunzy]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola:
. I understand that "windows millenium" is the windows 2000 version recomended for home platforms & games.

Win ME = Windows Millenium Edition, sounds similiar to Win 2000, but isn't.
Actually Win ME is just a minor upgrade of the Win 9X kernel. The good thing about it is that they took out the Real DOS mode, and the system will now boot faster. Bad is that it makes it harder to play DOS games.
Win 2k is based off of the Win NT kernel. Win 2k and Win ME sound similiar, the difference in the names confused my dad who has been working with computers for a long time but has been out of the loop for about a year, but they are as different as Win98 and Win NT 4.0 are to each other, which is to say quite a bit in certain situations.

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[catullus]

1st post on this site by me.
And I'm already been referenced. Is that a good thing?

Anyway: Civ2 is a win3.x game. 16 bits and all. You will meet problems, even on ME, I guess. But it runs on my W2K box, although videos are sort of black. Haven't put much work on finding solution to that yet.

ir41.dll is a reference to Intel's Indeo driver (v.4) for 16-bits OS. Sucks for new machines. Try download the newest codec from Ligos (purchased Indeo from Intel recently): http://www.ligos.com/index.phtml?pi=103#downloads
Indeo Video .. and Indeo Audio Codecs

Give me a honk if it doesn't work, OK?

C.

 

[davkar]

I'm running W2K on my laptop, and I installed Civ 2 classic. Runs without any problems. I'm running without the CD. I'm running W2K version 5.00.2195

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

bump

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

microsoft has a page with windows2000 compatibility patches for many games including civ & smac at http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/deployment/appcompat/default.asp



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[damunzy]

I see support for SMAC posted, but not Civ2, am I missing something?

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[Lefty Scaevola]

I pulled the URL from an motns old post on another civ forum, it did not list the specific games, and I use win98 so I have not been to the page to check it. perhaps civ2 is a simpler fix requiring just the winG.dll fix mentioned above (which basically tranlate between 16 bit game graphics & 32 bit graphics in win2000).

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[This message has been edited by Lefty Scaevola (edited January 16, 2001).]