Help running Civ3 and Conquests on Vista64

[minimus]

Help running Civ3 and Conquests on Vista64

Decided to enjoy this game again after an age, I have tried most of the fixes but I cannot get the game to run, I end up with a black screen when trying to launch the game.

I would normally install games to my own folder so D\ Games\ Civ3

So from the CDs I installed Civ3 to the above and then installed conquests everything appeared to be fine so game is installed.

I tried my version of the registry fix I spotted over at steam with new pathways but no joy.

It works perfectly fine on another computer that has XP after I renamed LSANS.fot to -LSANS.fot

Any help appreciated.

 

[Turner]

Refresh out of sync would cause a black screen. That's all you get? I'd find the conquests.ini file (it probably doesn't exist if you haven't started a game yet) and add the line Refresh=XX, where XX is the refresh rate of your screen.

If it doesn't exist, create the file in the directory with the conquests.exe file. Don't need to be a complete file, just use notepad and put that line in it. The game will fill in the rest.

Also, you're not using some weird resolution, are you?

 

[minimus]

No that did not work its actually telling me the paths are incorrect so my comp does not want to edit an .ini file I pasted in, going to uninstall. clean the reg and try again.

I have it running on my XP at 1900x 1200 unfortunately it looks too small but I can adjust my screen resolution to try and get a better look but I fear its going to look a wee bit crappy.

Thanks for the help.

Edit: As I am at and I know this is not the appropriate forum but years ago I came across a mod that scaled the units and the cities in Civ4 to look more like Civ3 any idea where that is?

 

[ben456123]

I am having the same problem on my computer running windows. how do i find out my refresh rate?