Gold+Conquests=Chaos

[Redemption]

I've downloaded the retail version of Civ3 Gold and Conquests. I installed Gold and then tried installing conquests. Then the installer can't detect the civ3 gold I just installed apparently because there's no original civ3 exe in the folder, only ptw.exe in the ptw folder. So I downloaded the 1.29f patch for the original civ3, installed it in the main civ3 gold folder. And then I installed conquests because now it detected civ3. I ran conquests, then the interface looks bad. Here is a screenshot of it.

 

[Redemption]

And yeah, almost forgot. Before I installed conquests, I played gold ptw for days and everything was just delicious, erm all is good. I have a Pentium 1.10Ghz, 256 RAM, Intel 82810E 64 vram with the latest drivers, DX9 and WinXP. Any help is appreciated.

 

[Turner]

Your screenshot link is broken. Can you try again?

Without seeing the screen, it sounds like a file got corrupted in the installation/patching. You might want to try to install Civ3 from your d/l source again, and make sure you run PTW and Civ3 at least once? Why? Don't know, but there could be some runtime utility that doesn't create the s/w package until it's run at least once. Civ3 itself does this with it's .ini files... Probably won't matter, but definately won't hurt.

Also, if you're d/ling from a retail source, you can't use the patches that are released. Each patch includes copy protection informatin that looks back to the CD. Probably, your d/l source has a patched version of the latest executable that you can use. But I've seen plenty of people d/l civ off the 'net and try to patch it only to have it start looking for a CD.

 

[govenorofwar]

Moderator Action: Text deleted.

govenorofwar - warned. Piracy is not allowed here.
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889

 

[Naked Paladin]

Gold edition comes fully patched so there is no need to patch it, doing so will break it. Also with Gold edition, you cannot play vanilla Civ3 only PTW.

 

[Padma]

Just for what it's worth, the downloadable versions of Civ3 (particularly Civ3 Gold) don't seem to work well with Conquests. (Actually, Civ3 Gold doesn't seem to work well with Conquests.) I don't know why, but that has been the general theme of the Gold + C3C threads here. If reinstalling doesn't sort the problem out, you may want to consider buying the CD version.... (I know, it's not the answer you want to hear. )

 

[T-Money]

I had this problem- my version of Civ was the GOTY edition that I downloaded from TryMedia.com. If you download Conquests it will cause wierd things to happen to the graphics in-game. For me it was that the leaderheads replaced the city screens. I'm about to solve this problem by pre-ordering CivIII complete.

 

[ill_i_bus]

what is civIII complete? does it include conquests and how much does it cost? so basically c3c conflicts with c3gold and civ3 GOTY? they should pull it off the shelves and/or stop selling download versions of the games to us. I had to waste hours and hours downloading after i PAID for my games only to have it not work.

 

[Redemption]

I downloaded the trial version of the orig. civilization 3 from trygames.com then I installed conquests. It turned out to be fine, I'm able to play c3c without any problems and it kicked ass more than ptw because c3c has it's features and civs, except for the ptw scenarios. I only paid for the trial c3c , I did not pay for the original civ3 since all I want is conquests. But I learned my lesson, if you want to buy a game, buy the cd, downloaded retails suck. Not to contradict myself, this is the last time I'll dl trials. Anyway, thanks for all your responses!!!

 

[Padma]

what is civIII complete? does it include conquests and how much does it cost? so basically c3c conflicts with c3gold and civ3 GOTY? they should pull it off the shelves and/or stop selling download versions of the games to us. I had to waste hours and hours downloading after i PAID for my games only to have it not work.

Civ3 Complete is the "final" package, including Civ3, PTW, and Conquests in one package. I haven't looked at the ads for it, yet, but I assume it will run 30 - 40 US Dollars.

The problem with the download versions of the games is that they have to *break* the CD copyright protection code (with Atari's blessing, and maybe even their assistance). The resulting games play fine, by themselves, but they are not "upgradeable" in the normal sense, you have to wait for the company you bought from to issue a playable version (and maybe *buy it again*).

The US version of C3Gold was, IMHO, just a kludge. They combined both games on one CD, and somehow, something *broke* that shouldn't have. I don't think Atari ever figured out just what went screwy with that release. (OTOH, the "Rest of the World" release of Gold was simply the 2 games bundled in one box, so no problems for them.)

 

[Turner]

One wonders why they didn't do the same with the US release....

Civ3/PTW on disc should be about 1.2 gig or so. Quite a bit bigger than the 700mb a CD can hold. Obviously, they did some kind of compression on it. Maybe the compression did something to do it.

 

[ill_i_bus]

Moderator Action: You're right, it is piracy. Deleted. Besides, atari still made their £35 off me so they should be happy, lol.
anyways, my point is, it works fine now, so ye, must be something to do with civ3 gold and c3c not been friendly, hehe.

 

[haplo888]

Just bought the C3C CD today after installing C3Gold from trygames.com and playing it for months. I have the exact same problem. You said that it is working fine for you now? How did you fix it?

 

[opalsky007]

I'm having almost exactly the same problem Redemption did, except that the weird boxes on his screen are pictures of leaders and resources and all kinds of random crap. I can't use the small map at all. Is there any kind of quick fix for this?

 

[Raziel]

Exactly the same problem

Civ 3 Gold from trygames.com
Box copy of Conquests
1.22 Patch

Dell D600 Laptop
Ati Raedon
WinXP SP2
All patches and hardware updates from Windowsupdate installed.

Preferences screen unreadable, button not in screen when creating game and screen shot above is exactly what my in game screen looks like.

Somebody managed to fix this?

 

[Padma]

I doubt anyone is actually working in it. Like I said earlier:

The problem with the download versions of the games is that they have to *break* the CD copyright protection code (with Atari's blessing, and maybe even their assistance). The resulting games play fine, by themselves, but they are not "upgradeable" in the normal sense, you have to wait for the company you bought from to issue a playable version (and maybe *buy it again*).

 

[Raziel]

If anyone is interested, Atari Tech Support replied (within 24 hours)

Their solution, uninstall, unload extra apps running, delete remaining directories, update OS and drivers (which I had done previously), and reinstall.

Will let everyone know how it goes when I do attempt.