Installing under Windows 7

[Munkas]

I’ve installed the civ3 gold edition to win7 as listed above. After the installation the program working properly till reboot. After the first reboot fonts missing, and civ crashing with „unable allocate draw buffer” error message.
Do you have any idea to fix it?

 

[Canopus]

Ok, I had C3C running on a Win7 Netbook for a couple of months now, and everything was ok.

Today I tried to start a multi-player (PBEM) game on it, and the following happened: when you get to the settings screen, you can't modify any of the settings (map size, type of game, time out, etc.). You can't even add players to the game!! (Let alone start it... )
The only way out is the TaskManager...

Has anyone else seen this so far?!

Thanks, Lanzelot

Yes. A friend tried to install Civ 3 and Civ 3 PTW on W7...didn't work. Figured out compatibility mode and it worked, but, when we went to play either as Hot Seat game we found there were no options for it at all. In PTW there were options to select Multiplayer, but, like you nothing worked on it. We hadn't played either for a long time when he had XP and we were actually beginning to wonder if we were going mad imagining there used to be Hot Seat.

Solutions to this one greatly appreciated.

 

[bro1ncos]

Trying to get back into the game by playing Civ III vanilla. Thinking about getting Civ V when it comes out.

I have tried installing on Win 7 using the instructions here, but after changing the compatibility settings I still get nothing. It sounds like the CD is spinning in my laptop, but that is all it does. Using Win 7 Home Premium.

Any suggestions?

 

[Nergal]

I've had a problem for a few days trying to get CivAssistII running. After installing .Net Framework 1.1 and the service pack I got CAII up but it wouldnt connect to Civ. The icon didnt appear on the Civ screen as normall. Disabling UAC worked and everything seems ok now. I had been setting the programs to run as admin but that didnt cut it. Just thought I would let people kbnow.

 

[Skullsplitter]

Following a problem installing .NET on my Win7 Home Premium, the character of many of my programs has changed. I now have to run most things as administrator, including things like Firefox. Civ3 is hit or miss even then. Opening task manager tells me that Civ is hung at 1700 bytes or something. But I found that if I start another copy of Civ, then end the process tree for the first copy, it fires up fine. Sort of. MapStats may have to tell the file to open manually a few times before it starts operating normally.

And, no, the scans tell me I'm still malware free...

 

[darski]

I got Civ III playing but I have no .biq file anywhere and Win7 still can't read that file type. does anyone have a suggestion as to how to get the. biq working?

I cannot use the CivIII edit biq either.

i was hoping that I could get the CCM mod to work on this machine

 

[vmxa]

The biq for ccm 1.7 is a seperate d/l iirc. I needs to be copied into the Scenario folder, but not in the CCM folder.

 

[darski]

but it is just a blank file - nothing in it. it does not even have the icon we usually see.

Is it possible that I need a different compatibility package?

What if I start the game and then see if I can get into the Biq or the editor?

ETA: I should mention that there is no biq in my installation. I imported it from elsewhere and Win 7 could not read it at all , at all.

 

[vmxa]

CCM-v1.7.biq is 70kb. If you see it is not that size, I would d/l it again. I do not know how you do thigns, but I like to put all the package in a folder. Then copy/unzip it to the proper location.

That way I have the original files to fall back on. It should be in the x96 infogammes civiii conquest scenario folder. That folder also has the CCM and other scenario foleders. Al the scenarios biq files shoud be in the scenario folder outside of their respective scenario folders.

The editor will not find the biq, unless it also runs as admin as it will not be allowed acces to the x86 folder.

 

[Elder Yered]

I just now installed CIV 3 & CIV 3 Conq under Windows 7 with no issue and am now playing the game. No problems so far.

 

[Freela]

tried this. Civ 3 still wont work properly. What else can i try.

 

[leighfingbarlow]

Hey all, I recently got a new computer complete with windows 7, and I moved the saved files from my old computer over and continued to play them. It was working fine for a few weeks, but now I can't proceed any further with a particular game as it shuts the game down, always at the same point, saying "Civilization3.exe has stopped working" bla bla bla. Does anyone know a solution to this? Would be much appreciated

Thanks

 

[vmxa]

Maybe try to load a prior safe and change the order of events and save with a new name.

 

[Von Naumann]

Better than a year later I'm trying this. It's running now, the install, after following the instructions. I'm hoping that this will solve my dilemma of where the f**k the "saves" file is put. On all my previous versions of Windows I could find it, and shortcut it on the d/top so that I could erase everything when a game was done and start a new game with a fresh slate (so to speak). In case this DOESN'T correct that problem... what in the heck do I do???

 

[Skullsplitter]

While one TSA agent was groping my wife, the other was breaking my Civ 3 CD. I bought a copy from Amazon (SoldOut Games, if it matters) and it wouldn't work with my install, so I made a backup and reinstalled Complete. Single player works fine, multi does not. If I select Hotseat or LAN it throws up a popup and tells me I have no internet connection (which is true -- our in-home LAN is isolated) but should be irrelevant -- why would hotseat need internet connection?

The setup screen lets me click on an options button at the bottom that brings up a box with princess and such, on a box to change my name, and the "X" at the bottom right corner does rollover, but clicking does nothing. Only way I can close it out is to use Task Manager to End Process.

Any suggestions on how to get Hotseat to work? Windows 7 Home Premium, but had the same results on the two Vista machines I tried as well.

Thanks

 

[Skullsplitter]

Found the solution. For some reason, uninstall/reinstall was not enough, and even reviewing the firewall status was not enough. I had to go in and clear out the entry in Windows Firewall. (In "Find" type "Firewall" and select "Allow a program through Windows Firewall. Select Civ3 and remove it.) Then start Civ and allow it through the firewall. I'm guessing that since their version had a different splash and is a different size in memory but the same name and install directory, Windows got confused.

 

[Nyanna]

I bought the two pack game with the CivCity Rome and Civ 3 and I can't download the game to my computer. It worked once but it said that my resolution wasn't correct and when I went to start the game it prompted me to change the res. Only problem was my res. was just what it was telling me to fix. So I uninstalled it and decided to try again but no go on that. I have two versions of the game (two different disks) the two pack game (CCR & Civ3 Gold) as well as a disc with just the regular Civ3; neither will work. I've tried what you asked me to do on my second try and it stops (both discs) at midway, (something about race) and won't go any further. My computer is a windows 7; the two stickers on the laptop keyboard say intel Celeron inside. Not sure if that makes a difference but its brand new. We just purchased it not even a bloody week ago. I'm at the point of throwing both this computer and the discs at the wall so help?

 

[Toxicman007]

I have discovered that you can install the game and both expansions easily, but you will have to run the actual game .exe files in compatibility mode for XP, and run as administrator. This way, I have no problems.

 

[Revian]

I have the two original cd's for Civ III gold+multiplayer edition and I tried to instal on my new Win7 OS. but at 12% it stops and gives me this message:

Component transfer error

Component: CD_ROOT_FILES_PROTECTED
File Group: CD Root Files [ENGLISH]
File: F:\sounds\build\Middle Ages\MidORFull.mp3
Error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check).

 

[jimmywfl]

I had Civ3 installed under Windows 7 Ultimate working multiplayer fine. All of a sudden, it crashes during the setup of multiplayer: the cursor goes into a long box at the bottom of the screen. I can type letters into it. Hitting return clears it, but the cursor remains stuck in the box and nothing changes. Typing "Exit" does nothing. Clicking on "rename" allows me to rename the first player, set gender, and returns me to the long box on the bottom of the screen. Clicking on exit does not work. I have to open task manager to end the program. There are no drop down arrows to select options and I cannot change the other setup items like accelerated production.

Any ideas?

I have uninstalled and reinstalled, including deleting virtual memory and installing at a new location, several times.