'Civilization IV requires 1MB of free disk space'

[Elu Barcino]

Every time I try to load up Civ, I get the following message:

'Civilization IV requires at least 1MB of free disk space.

Free up some space on your local disk and then relaunch Civilization IV'.

After trying several times to get the game to load up, I checked my Hard Disk space, only to find that I had over 86GB of free space. I am now a bit confused. Does 'local disk' mean the disk Civ is on? If so, it says that I have no free space on it at all, so do I need to delete the manual or something to free up more?

Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[AlanH]

Are yuo sure you aren't trying to run it from the DVD?

[EDIT] I just tried launching it from the DVD icon and that's exactly what happens! You have to copy it to your hard drive, then play it there

 

[Elu Barcino]

Are yuo sure you aren't trying to run it from the DVD?

Is there another disk I should have? Because there was only the DVD in the box...

 

[AlanH]

Drag the entire Civilization IV folder from the DVD to your hard disk to make an installed copy - I put it in /Applications, others have a /Games folder and put it in there.

PS Welcome to CFC

 

[Elu Barcino]

Drag the entire Civilization IV folder from the DVD to your hard disk to make an installed copy - I put it in /Applications, others have a /Games folder and put it in there.

PS Welcome to CFC

Oops! Man am I stupid. Thanks a million!

PS Thankyou very much!

 

[Gyathaar]

That message kinda reminded me of a message I got in windows recently when installing a few year old game..

 

[Melon Head]

While I understand CIV is not meant to run off the DVD (hence the error message), do you guys know if there's a way to convince it to do so? I often have access to new intel iMacs and would love to play CIV on one of those rather than on my G4 laptop, which has pretty poor performance.

I don't have write access to the hard drive, only to a networked drive or any drives I plug into the computer. And running CIV off an iPod just doesn't work so well.

Thanks!

 

[Welnic]

It expects to be able to write stuff to your Documents folder. I've run it off of a firewire portable drive without any problems and the speed was okay. But it still needs to be able to write to the Documents folder. If you booted off of an external drive that would work, but I know that booting off an iPod is very slow and it's a lot of space to tie up on the iPod.

If you could get an alias called Civilization IV in the Documents folder pointing to a folder on your portable drive it should work then.