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Donny Brook
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My intention is to buy Vista Business w/ XP downgrade rights. The amazing thing about this is that you pay an extra $90 just so you can use MS's old O/S. What an innovation...
It's just not worth it for me to get a plain vanilla Vista machine when so many have had trouble getting CAII to work. I've tried it on one such machine already, which is luckily a base model for my kids to surf the net. For the sake of an extra $90, I'll happily get the XP option (which can be converted to Vista "whenever you're ready..." - i.e. never).
It's just not worth it for me to get a plain vanilla Vista machine when so many have had trouble getting CAII to work. I've tried it on one such machine already, which is luckily a base model for my kids to surf the net. For the sake of an extra $90, I'll happily get the XP option (which can be converted to Vista "whenever you're ready..." - i.e. never).
Ozymandius
Prince
I bought a new Toshiba laptop and I'm having a similar problem with getting CivAssist II to load. First of all a great thanks to all who contributed to the making of Civ Assist II. I can no longer play C3C without its assistance. However after several futile attempts at downloading the net stuff I've surrendered and dug up my old XP machine to play just so I can have my Civ Assistant constantly at my side.
Ozymandius
Prince
After about 10 hours of downloads and reboots, all those service packs and down loaders and net stuff gobbledygook (severe computer literacy challenged here) I have Civ Assist II running and I reloaded my game.
My Vista Toshiba laptop will have to run the old version of Civassist
My Vista Toshiba laptop will have to run the old version of Civassist
Ozymandius
Prince
FacuK
Chieftain
Tom,
I'm not a programmer, but I think the different .net (1. 2. 3.) are not different versions but different programs (or whatever they are).
I'm sure that with .net 2 CAII don't work (search this thread for more details).
So the answer is not, you need to install .net 1.1. Follow the link at Post 1.
Good luck!
I've downloaded .net 1.1, and installed Civ Assist now, but every time I try and run it, I get this message
EDIT: Wait a second, I tried running it as administrater, and it is now working
ANOTHER EDIT: That seemed to sort it, ie I was able to open the program without Civ 3 running. But then I tried loading a save, and it couldnt find the Save file. I have Vista, so whenever I want to open the save folder, I need to click 'Compatibilitiy Files', which isnt an option when using Civ Assist.
I copied a save file into another location, and I was able to open it and see stuff about it.
However, there is another problem. I have seen screenshots of people having a mini civ assist 2 window running at the top of the game window. How do I get that? When I opened the game, nothing appeared, and there was no icon to open Civ Assist. If it helps, I have Civ 3 Complete.
HOPEFULLY THE LAST EDIT!!!: I have sorted it out now. The problem with not being able to find the save files was because Vist put the folder, for some unknown reason, deep in 'App Data' To sort it out, I copied the folder, and all other Civ 3 files, from that folder, and into the Conquests folder. Now I dont need to click 'Compatibility Files.' That solved the problem, and it now works perfectly
EDIT: Wait a second, I tried running it as administrater, and it is now working
ANOTHER EDIT: That seemed to sort it, ie I was able to open the program without Civ 3 running. But then I tried loading a save, and it couldnt find the Save file. I have Vista, so whenever I want to open the save folder, I need to click 'Compatibilitiy Files', which isnt an option when using Civ Assist.
I copied a save file into another location, and I was able to open it and see stuff about it.
However, there is another problem. I have seen screenshots of people having a mini civ assist 2 window running at the top of the game window. How do I get that? When I opened the game, nothing appeared, and there was no icon to open Civ Assist. If it helps, I have Civ 3 Complete.
HOPEFULLY THE LAST EDIT!!!: I have sorted it out now. The problem with not being able to find the save files was because Vist put the folder, for some unknown reason, deep in 'App Data' To sort it out, I copied the folder, and all other Civ 3 files, from that folder, and into the Conquests folder. Now I dont need to click 'Compatibility Files.' That solved the problem, and it now works perfectly
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ThinkTank
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The small window is the alerts window. The main window of CA 2 has a button "Show alerts" I think. However, I encountered the same problems as you did making CA 2 work under Vista, solved them roughly the same, but this problem persisted, I cannot get the alerts window to work. That's a real bummer. Anyone has a solution for this?
When you are in the game, click the Civ Assist icon, it should bring up the Civ Assist window. Above the 'Options/About' button, there should be a button saying 'Show Alerts'. Click this, and the alerts window will appear. The button is only available whilst you have Civ 3 running.
ThinkTank
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Thx, but I got to the point where the alerts window pops up, but the window was empty, that is it did not show any alerts. Right now for some reason or other CA 2 does not start up at all anymore.
Ah, if you want alerts to show up, you need to go to the 'Alerts' tab, and turn whichever alerts you want on.
As for why it didnt start, did you download a .Net 1.1 patch? If so, uninstall it, as for some reason it stops it working.
As for why it didnt start, did you download a .Net 1.1 patch? If so, uninstall it, as for some reason it stops it working.
ThinkTank
RL Addict
Apologies if this has already been posted.
I found the following web page to provide clear and helpful directions for getting .net 1.1 installed on the Vista-64 operating system:
Install for Vista
It is a little involved, but I was able to install .net 1.1 without problems. And CivAssist2 is now running fine on my system.
I found the following web page to provide clear and helpful directions for getting .net 1.1 installed on the Vista-64 operating system:
Install for Vista
It is a little involved, but I was able to install .net 1.1 without problems. And CivAssist2 is now running fine on my system.
great post snake. unfortunately, i still am unable to use CA2... at this point its not a big deal as i just play civ on my laptop, but i would love to be able to eventually move to vista and not lose this program.
no idea what my issue is. silly vista!
no idea what my issue is. silly vista!
brian65pls
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i would like to say that i finally put vista on my laptop... and CA2 totally works!
i did everything the same way. it was even the same vista version.
i think my problem on my desktop might have to do with my outdated video card and its drivers. it has been kinda weird all around with vista, so thats why i wanted to try it out on my laptop to see what kind of issues i have.
now i just gotta wait for an extra gig of ram to arrive so this thing quits runnin so slow!
i did everything the same way. it was even the same vista version.
i think my problem on my desktop might have to do with my outdated video card and its drivers. it has been kinda weird all around with vista, so thats why i wanted to try it out on my laptop to see what kind of issues i have.
now i just gotta wait for an extra gig of ram to arrive so this thing quits runnin so slow!
