Civilization III Fixes (PLEASE READ)

[Thorgrimm]

It runs great, but a little slow as i only have a 500 athlon processor and win Millenium. The problem with XP is that it is based on the NTFS file system, which is basicily NT. As the other versions of Win ME, 98 they are FAT based and most games have to balance the os with the fact that most systems out there still use FAT versions of win. And with my experience with NT tells me that after a certain point in the game XP can no longer process the info into NTFS system files and it becomes corrupted. I don't know for sure but a lot of people have been having trouble running c3c on XP. Remember NT was up to service pack 7 to make NT compatible with most games as NT was designed as a business and server software. So knowing "Microshaft" XP is going to need a lot of service packs to make it compatible with Fat based games. I don't know if i have helped at all, but i tried.


Cheers Thorgrimm

 

[jimkirk]

win xp works best if its a clean install

 

[Marc1980]

Hello Thorgrimm and jimkirk

So you think I should format my drive c: then reinstall winXp and civ3. Will it surely help me? Well, I will give it try. For me it is really interesting, why I can run first person shooters on my computer without any problem and I can't run a TBS. Usually these kinds of games have no compatibility problems.

I sent a bug report to Atari on Sunday, but I have not received any aswers yet.

One more thing. The programers of this game know about this problem(DataIO...), thats why they put this error message into the game. So I suppose they have to know what thing causes this error, but why don't they write it down in the readme file?

Marc

 

[penelopody]

I'd really appreciate help in this. Any suggestions in, um, mostly not too computerspeak would be great.

Intro video runs fine, then screen goes black and
music plays. I've updated my drivers but don't know if the driver for the monitor is right. I've tried different compatabilities/colour/resolution etc.

If my driver is wrong for the monitor and I can't find an Acer driver what do I do?? The computer guy at work has offered a monitor from there. will that assist instead?


This is what I have.
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Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Home
BIOS: 68602 v2.14
Processor: Intel Pentium 4, 2.0GHz
Memory: 248MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0
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Display Devices: Intel 82845G graphics controller
Current Mode: 800 x 600 (32 bit) (72Hz)
**Monitor: 15" Acer 54eL (old monitor for new computer)

Thank you so much,
P

 

[jimkirk]

i have win xp and i run c3c just fine .. the only problem i encounter is sometimes a sudden drop to the desktop without any error message .. and its so random i cant recreate it

 

[Marc1980]

Yesterday I updated the bios of my computer as ATARI customer support advised, and it seems it helps me. In deity games on huge maps I got this error (DATA IO operation system error)around 1250 BC, but now I am around 20 BC and there is no problem! Yet. Hopefully the old bios caused this error.

Marc

 

[Marc1980]

penelopody

Read the whole topic, as far as I can remember there were a few posts about problems like yours. I think the problem is not with your monitor, I suppose it supports 1024*768, civ3 requires this resolution. I think it will be something with your video card.

 

[penelopody]

Marc1980,

thanks. will give it a try. fingers crossed

 

[SuN_DiSCiPLe]

Hi, I bought the gold edition of civilization and its work well, but when i dowload the 1.27 patch to be abble to play multiplayer game, a message appear and tell me to insert the play the world disc, but hes inside. I just want to know if there is a special patch for the gold edition or something like that.

Thanks

PS Sorry if my english is bad, its because my first language is french

 

[Marc1980]

SuN_DiSCiPLe

This civ3 gold edition includes civ3 play the world, and you would like to play that one? I have civ3 conquest (it includes Play the world) and when I patched ptw to 1.21 I could not play with it because it required a cd. But I had only the conquest cd.
In such case you can go to:

Links deleted

and dowload a so called gamefix which is a game crack, but sometimes you can't play with your legal(original) version, because the patches overwrite a copy protection(or something like that) and the only way to solve this problem to use a crack. Hope it helps.

Marc

Moderator Action: Marc, I understand what you are trying to do, and I applaud you for trying to help,

but ...

posting links to sites where game cracks can be found is explicitly against the Forum Rules. --Padma
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889

 

[Ragnarok23]

hey ok can somone help me plzz plzz help me i have a big problem something went wrong with the installation so i thought ok unistall reinstall well it wont unistall i have tried everything manually uinstalling there were no registry and it wont get removed from my add/remove programs ive done everything i could think of and when i try do unistall it no matter what i do it does this quick thing and says maintnece is done and it is still there and i cant reinstall it till thats gone plz help skotie!!!!!!!!

 

[jackass]

hi i got a big problem i think. i firstly installed the expension pack and then uninstalled it before install teh civ3.now when i put the cd into driver,autorun doesn't work and when i'm opening the the cd and double cliking the "setup" file it's trying to uninstall the game but i didn't install the game!!!plss help me!! send me if you know smt about my problem pls e-mail me!!

onur_gunass@yahoo.com

 

[jimkirk]

penelopody

this game only runs on 1024x768 or something like that either manually set ur resolution to that

another thing if you check your monitor profile is it listed as "plug and play or generic"?

you need to d/l ot install the specific brand monitor i had the same problem till i went to my monitor manufacturers web site and d/l the profile for it now it works smooth except for a few drops to windows desktop .. i belive the game has a memory leak

 

[jackass]

i think our problem not about that its about uninstall fileif we can install game without it cheks if its installed or not we can install it but i can't do it my problem same with Ragnarok23 i tihnk we both can't install game becaus when we run setup game starts uninstall i'm gonna format my computer i think

 

[Padma]

Installshield creates a folder for each app that it is used to install. If it is still there,after an uninstall, it thinks it is still installed, but it can't uninstall, because it's already uninstalled - a vicious circle.

You need to find the InstallShield Information folder, and find the right folder under it to delete. Check this thread for more details.

 

[mwatson]

Hi,

Everything works great in multi except Bombing... I can bomb (i'm the host) but noone who connects can bomb without causing an out of sync error. Both of us have Broadband connections and it isn't the firewall (tried it without it).

Thanks

 

[brace]

C3C loads up and works fine with no problems until DIPLOMACY is either started by a rival nation or I intitiate same. My computer then crashes to the desktop. I can communicate with some nations but when a particular nation contacts me or vice versa it crashes.

The only way I've found I can continue the current game is to reload the save game and hope that the one particular nation does not try and contact me again or it crashes again.

Not much fun.

This is a major bug and one that regularly repeats itself making the game unplayable.

Has this been recognised by anyone else??

I have no other problems with the game and have fully updated all my drivers. I've also implemented sk0tie's suggestions to no avail. I have updated to Beta Patch v1.15 with no joy.

 

[brace]

Originally posted by jimkirk
i have win xp and i run c3c just fine .. the only problem i encounter is sometimes a sudden drop to the desktop without any error message .. and its so random i cant recreate it

C3C loads up and works fine with no problems until DIPLOMACY is either started by a rival nation or I intitiate same. My computer then crashes to the desktop. I can communicate with some nations but when a particular nation contacts me or vice versa it crashes.

The only way I've found I can continue the current game is to reload the save game and hope that the one particular nation does not try and contact me again or it crashes again.

Not much fun.

This is a major bug and one that regularly repeats itself making the game unplayable.

Has this been recognised by anyone else??

I have no other problems with the game and have fully updated all my drivers. I've also implemented sk0tie's suggestions to no avail. I have updated to Beta Patch v1.15 with no joy.



COULD THIS BE THE SAME BUG? I THINK IT COULD BE.

 

[rhikdavis]

My problem is that the game won't even load from the start...I click on the shortcut...the drive spins up and then spins down, then nothing. The desktop never changes. How funky is that? I'm trying to run it on a Sony Vaio Laptop...

Did Skotie leave town?

 

[rhikdavis]

Originally posted by sk0tie
I will look into it when I get a chance, remember, my first job is Infogrames Phone Tech Support, I do this in my free time

What's your phone number, hell, you may as well get paid for it...