corrupted v. 1.22?

[kasner]

for conquests, are there potentially corrupted downloads around the web? i've downloaded, and unlike other ppl with no CD inserted errors, i just have scrambled menus, tech trees with wrong descriptions, and the science advisor telling me that dijon is content ... despite the fact that i am playing the germans.

what the heck is going on? who has downloaded v. 1.22 conquests and it has worked perfectly fine for them?

 

[Turner]

Well, I have. Twice, at least.

The problem with the corrputed menus usually happens with a corrupted install. Try uninstalling Civ3 & C3C, and resintalling. Then install the patch. What happened was, one of the text files got corrupted, and that's why everything looks weird.

 

[kasner]

i tried it first time, but it didnt work. i'll try again anyways, just to see. how can you tell if the patch has actually installed itself into the game?

during updating patch, it says there are read only files. should i continue anyway installing it?

 

[Turner]

When you get to the main title page, on the lower left hand corner there will be a number. That number indicates the patch level.

The only reason I can think of that they'd be read only is if you burned the patch to CD. If you d/l'd it off the net, it should be write-enabled. Is this something you can d/l again? Or are you on dial-up, and it'll take forever to d/l?

You could try turning off the read-only attribute before running it. Right click on the file, and select properties. It should be under the general tab. If the Read-Only attribute is set, try unsetting it and see if it runs okay.

 

[kasner]

well, i reinstalled it without patches yet. i checked the two files which were read only, but now they are all writable (not read only). Odd.

Well, now that i opened up to update, it suggests to install the patches into the conquests folder.

i just remember that last time, my scrambled menu read version 1.00, and i wasn't really sure what happened. It also said 'Close the door on your way out' at the bottom ...

 

[kasner]

also, the two strange files are conquests.biq and civ3id.mb file. i've just put inn the patch, and it still is scrambled.