Civilization III Play the World Divastating Error!

[GreatD]

this thing "Art\Unit\Knight\Knight Death.wav" popped up while i was in the middle of the game and it was too far already at from where i saved the game. the country that i am using was japan and i was like in the middle of war against India after i owned china and mongols and korea were doing their recovery after i made my attack on them. i spent a lot of hours on it and it was like "damn what was just happened?" it says "the game will be exit" O︵O!!! what's the deal man! f*ck!

any help?

 

[Quintillus]

It looks like somehow your Knight Death sound got deleted, which caused a problem when a Knight died nearby. This should actually be relatively easy to fix - you simply need a file with that name to play, and the error should go away. It doesn't have to be the original sound. You'll need to go into your Knight folder - under Civilization III\Art\units\Knight, wherever you installed Civilization. You can simply copy one of the files, paste it, and rename the Copy of KnightAttackGrunt1.wav (or whichever one you copy) to KnightDeath.wav (note the lack of spaces). It might sound a bit odd when the Knight dies, but it should solve the crash.

The latest autosave should contain the previous turn's auto-save file. Just do NOT start another game before you load the auto-save and save it as something else - that will delete the autosave.

Ultimately, you may want to re-install Civ to get the Knight death sound back, or at least copy the death sound of a similar unit (Horseman perhaps). But the above ought to get the game working again.

Oh, and a heads-up - keep the language family-friendly. You'll likely draw an infraction of the rules otherwise.

 

[GreatD]

if i may, allow you to call dude.
i just found out that under my civilization3ptw directory at :Art\Unit\.. --- i dont have a "knight folder". no idea how it came. um by the way "play the world & conquest" are expansion pack of civilization 3 if im not mistaken. i have a question regarding the connection/relationship or whatever you call it about this thing coz' recently i reinstalled the civilization 3 without touching its expansions (ptw & cq). -- is it just fine? i mean, you know the problem could be at that angle. maybe some certain files that connects the main game and its expansion pack have been corrupted. however, i was still able to play the game (civilization 3, ptw, & cq) but have never finished a game yet like making it to modern age/period. so i was thinking there might be some "errors along the way -- just like this "knight\knight death.wav".

hey dude, i think japan can't create knights in the first place. instead of knights they got the samurai. - i read from an article.

hope you will response back and sorry for the language, you know i was just like carried on coz' of the heck error. thanks a lot

 

[GreatD]

i reinstall the game but :art\unit\knight.. is still not there

 

[GreatD]

anyway, is it necessary to install the previous/older patches before you install the new one or its okay to directly install the newest patch/update.

 

[Steph]

Normally, you should have the following folders
Civilization III (actually installation folder, may be different)
-- Arts
---- Units
-- Civ3PTW
---- Arts
------ Units

At least that is I have.

I'm not sure how you install the game, but I always install Civilization III, and then Play the world.

As Play the world is an expansion, I'm not sure you can install it alone