Hello there, my first post to this forum!
A few days back I stumbled on my good old Civ 3 plain, and decided that it was time to wreck my relationship and start playing Civ again. But, unfortunately, there`s a problem which is quite annoying, and after reading this whole thread trough and finding no solution, I`m hoping that some kind soul could help me.
The game installs quite fine, I patched it, no problem there, but when I try to run it, there`s no texts or anything in the main menu, just the background image. When I press enter, I get the screen where you create the world etc (still no texts), and also get the screen where you can choose your civ etc (surprise, no texts), and when I try to launch the game, it crashes on the start, giving me the "unable to allocate draw-buffer; terminating program".
I tried every single thing mentioned in this thread, updated my drivers, ran windows update, uninstalled/reinstalled, practiced black magic and so on, but nothing seems to help.
The weirdest thing is, the game ran okay a year back on this very same computer.
Specs:
Intel Celeron 2.8Ghz
768megs ram
SIS 650 integrated display adapter
Soundblaster Live
Acer AL1916 19" monitor
DirectX 9.0C
If anyone knows what is causing this problem, please tell me. Thanks