Civilization III Fixes (PLEASE READ)

[Turner]

Moderator Action: No one will email you that file, as it is considered piracy at this site to do so.

Warned.

 

[rlk1220]

Been playing C3Q fine since release (on my trusty old GEForce2 vid card). Recently updated to an ATI Radeon X700 series card, and phzzzphp...game crashes to desktop every time without fail around the 10th turn. Have current patch (V1.22), most recent vid drivers...running on XP SP2. I have tried uninstall/reinstall (including patch)...no luck. Any ideas, rumors, jokes, or innuendo would be appreciated.

Rich

 

[sciopod]

Playing CIV3 conquests. Game run fines until I meet another civ then it crashes - doesn't matter whether I initiate contact with the civ or ignore them. Game crashes as soon as someone else shows up. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[sav]

Don't explore?

 

[0013]

hey my i hav a friend here who has the complete version but i didn't work 4 sum reason. so i put my civ3.exe file over hers and it now works. problem is that i dont hav the complete version and now she only has part of it. do u no where i can get a workin civ3.exe file from the complete version. if that made no sense call me a noob but plz try 2 help me

 

[robinmom2b]

Hello, my problem is when i put the disk in my drive and it didn't load fast enough I thought there was a problem so I opened the driver again and I noticed a screen had popped up that said something like the auto run didn't start and I had to pick a media player but the start screen for Civ lll came up so I just hit the cancell button and now when I hit the launch button on the spaceship I get an error button. I already uninstalled and reinstalled but it didnt fix the problem. I don't know how to get that screen back to pick the media player.
Here's some of the error info: files included C:docume`1\robin\LOCALS`1\Temp\WERI.tmp.dir00\appcompat.txt
Error sig.
AppName:Civilization3.exe,AppVer:0.0.0.0, ModName:binkw32.dll,ModVer:1.0.22.0 Offset:000016cb

Can anyone help me fix my problem so I can see my Spaceship Launch again. Oh, I have windows xp.

 

[Padma]

hey my i hav a friend here who has the complete version but i didn't work 4 sum reason. so i put my civ3.exe file over hers and it now works. problem is that i dont hav the complete version and now she only has part of it. do u no where i can get a workin civ3.exe file from the complete version. if that made no sense call me a noob but plz try 2 help me

The place to get a working civ3.exe file is from her Civ3 complete CD(s). The best option is probably to uninstall Civ3 *completely*, and then reinstall from the discs.

 

[0013]

The place to get a working civ3.exe file is from her Civ3 complete CD(s). The best option is probably to uninstall Civ3 *completely*, and then reinstall from the discs.

i hav uninstalled and re-installed it a few times but kept getting the same problem. that is y i put the other exe file over hers. any other places u no of

 

[The 777 Hoax]

Hey I have a question... when I try to run Civ3 (Vanilla), the game starts correctly by showing the intro, but then when the menu is supposed to appear, it says "Civilization.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We're sorry for the inconvenience." I don't care how sorry they are. I want to play my Civ game! I've been playing it for about a month now, and all of a sudden it does this for no apparent reason. It's worked fine in the past. Could anyone help me out here?? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cody

 

[Yokuyin]

I have more than 1 problem!

I've installed Civ III, but when I play and quit the game and I want to play it another time, I can't play! I press on the Civ III start button but then nothing happens. Only when I reboot the computer, I can play Civ III another time.

Problem 2: So I installed patch 1.29 for Civ III, but when I installed, I can't open Civ III anymore, even when I reboot the computer! So I uninstall the patch, but then Civ III still doesn't work. Only when I uninstall and install Civ III, I can play it again.

Problem 3: When I used the Landscape Editor, and I change for example the Civ colors. When I play this scenario, I can't change the Techs in the Tech Tree, so when my Civ invents Bronze Working, I can't change anymore to Pottery. And I don't see also the pictures of the units/buildings in the Tech Tree.

Can anyone help me?

 

[pogue1066]

Hi. I really hope I can receive some elementary advice here. My Civ3 and Civ3PTW will not open when using the Samsung DLP TV as monitor. I read a few pages ago where someone else was having the same thing. A suggestion was brought to change the .ini setting to a different resolution.
I thought that I’d give that a try.
Just one problem…
I don’t know how to do that.
What is a .ini file?
Is it a “notepad” file?
How does one bring up the .ini file in order to change it?

Note: I can play it on the laptop display, but not the Samsung DLP through the fifteen point connection.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I wanna play bigbig Civ3

Cheers.

 

[Zengus]

Hello,

I've been reading up on the forums for Civilization III and see quite a few of you are having trouble with the game. I work for Infogrames Tech Support, and belive you me, the phones are off the hook on this one!

Before you go and blame Firaxis or Infogrames for the problems some of you are having with the game, please make sure you try this stuff first.

First off, make sure you are running the latest drivers for your sound card and video card that support DirectX 8.0 and DISABLE 3RD PARTY APPLICATIONS! In Win98/ME you click on start, goto run, and type in MSCONFIG, make sure SELECTIVE STARTUP is enabled, and LOAD STARTUP GROUP ITEMS is UNCHECKED, and reboot your computer.

If you encounter the "Out of Range" or "Out of Sync" message from your monitor, find out what type of monitor you have, and install the CORRECT .INF for your monitor. DO NOT use "Default" or "Plug and Play" driver from Microsoft, this is what is causing the problem. GO MICROSOFT!

Do a Windows Update! You have no idea how many problems this fixes!

If you continue to have problems with the game, go ahead and post them to this thread, I'll do my best to work it out with you.

sk0tie
Infogrames, Inc
Tech Support North America

Hi, I was playing civ 3 on my new sony laptop (top of range 1mth old) then i downloaded GOTH 21 software, after i ran it my civ 3 game wont work. The cd/dvd drive runs real fast and the game wont load . I have uninstalled the game and reloaded it 5 times and it wont run. I did a manual unistall too. my other games still run AoE3, rise of rome ,colinization, fritz9(chess) I have also done a System Restore twice with no success, so please help ,thankyou.

 

[Zengus]

Hi, I was playing civ 3 on my new sony laptop (top of range 1mth old) then i downloaded GOTH 21 software, after i ran it my civ 3 game wont work. The cd/dvd drive runs real fast and the game wont load . I have uninstalled the game and reloaded it 5 times and it wont run. I did a manual unistall too. my other games still run AoE3, rise of rome ,colinization, fritz9(chess) I have also done a System Restore twice with no success, so please help ,thankyou.

 

[Born_InTheUSA]

Hello: I don't don't think this is the right thread... Sorry
I don't see any way to slow down the game display. I have a pretty fast computer, and when the opponents play, I cannot follow the action. By the time my eyes focus on the action, it's usually too late. Two of my settlers and a worker were wiped out by barbarians - I just happened to see one settler fall down, had no idea what happened (I am new to this game). And the only way I knew a worker was gone, because I happend to wonder what he was doing (Had him on automatic) and I noticed he was gone. It had to be barbarians. And combat happens so quickly, I can barely see if a warrior has become elite, etc. Anyhow, is there a way to throttle down the display so I can see what's going on when the opponents play?
TIA

 

[Atreidis_42o]

Hello: I don't don't think this is the right thread... Sorry
I don't see any way to slow down the game display. I have a pretty fast computer, and when the opponents play, I cannot follow the action. By the time my eyes focus on the action, it's usually too late. Two of my settlers and a worker were wiped out by barbarians - I just happened to see one settler fall down, had no idea what happened (I am new to this game). And the only way I knew a worker was gone, because I happend to wonder what he was doing (Had him on automatic) and I noticed he was gone. It had to be barbarians. And combat happens so quickly, I can barely see if a warrior has become elite, etc. Anyhow, is there a way to throttle down the display so I can see what's going on when the opponents play?
TIA

It sounds liek you have "Fast Unit Moves" turned on. You can turn these settings off & on in the file menue under preferences or options or what have you. check there. you can further slow it down by keeping unit animation on. Many people do not keep these settings on, in order to get opponent turns done faster.

~Q

 

[Nook29]

Trying to get the Civ III trial working on my mums work laptop. If I can get it working, then I know to buy the full version and know it'll work.

Laptop uses Windows 2000 Professional, not sure what it's specs are, dxdiag doesn't work. Get an error when trying to run the game, says "Error: abnormal filename termination".

Any help appreciated!

Just checked the system information, says 327mb RAM, and uses an ATI RAGE Mobility. Not sure on the processor though.

 

[NHL Fever]

Hi, I have the same old problem of having the Civ III 1.29f patch somehow cause the copyright protection from screwing up my ability to load the game (giving the 'please insert CD message'. I know how to use unsafesdisc except the programs out there seem to only go up to safedisc 2.40.10. The patch is protected with safedisc 2.60.052 according to 'safedisc analyser'. Where can I get an unwrapper for this version of safedisc, or an unwrapped exe?

PLEASE HELP.

Thanks.

 

[Turner]

That is, unfortunately, against the rules. It would break the rule about piracy. I'm not doubting you have a legitimate copy, but providing instructions on how to crack it or where to get a nocd crack would be against the rules.

 

[NHL Fever]

That is, unfortunately, against the rules. It would break the rule about piracy. I'm not doubting you have a legitimate copy, but providing instructions on how to crack it or where to get a nocd crack would be against the rules.

All I want to know is if the unsafedisc v2.60.052 exists. Information far more crack-facilitating was already posted earlier in this thread.

 

[Turner]

Well, you'll have to look else where for it, we won't post it here.