C3CFanatic0014 said:
What could be different about our systems, that yours should work and mine should not?
I just saw this ending to your post, you posted on September 10. That's the thing isnt it? In regards to the program (civ3) itself, probably not much. The only difference I can think of would be, like FugitivSisyphus said, is that if it is the latest distro of the game you have bought, does it have problems?
Now a short Sadan01 history lesson
: I first bought Civ3 when it arrived on the shelves here in Aus back in 2001(??!) I think. I played it a little while but had other games to play (such as Civ2). It wasn't until the Conquests expansion arrived on the scene that I bought it (the expansion; it came with PTW too) and then really started to get into Civ3, but I digress
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What I am trying to say here is that I bought Civ3 vanilla first, and then once Conquests was released, I bought that too. Separate program/expansions. I have never seen nor used Complete so I dont know if it is structured in a similar way - i.e. Install Civ3 vanilla, then use another CDROM to install both PTW and Conquests. Can someone shed some light on this for me i.e. the installation path to get everything installed and working.
This could be the problem but the question has to be asked. If Complete is at issue, then why haven't we seen many more people with similar errors. Well, that brings me to my second
major difference.
Even if our computers had exactly the same hardware installed in them, there still can be 1,000's, if not millions of different problems that may arise on your computer but not mine, or vice versa. Patch levels, DLL's, device drivers, missing files, drive corruption or corrupt files to name just but a few. This makes it very difficult to troubleshoot - and keeps me in a job
... Now I would guess that your computer is not the same, hardware-wise to mine, and it isnt as you have a 256Mb graphics card whereas mine is a 128Mb Ti4600... Probably different drivers alone just there.
Let me do some poking in the registry and in other things and I'll come back and post something more with what action we can take seeing Dr. Watson doesn't want to help us.
Just 2 quick points however:
Have you run a chkdsk over the drive that has Civ3 installed on it? If you've never used it, let me give you a quick tutorial (skip if you already know how it works - just take note of the options I put in below).
Let's say Civ is installed on the C Drive on your computer (substitute if not on C Drive). Go into the command prompt ("cmd" in the Run box) and type in this: "
chkdsk c: /F /R"
Make sure you lose the quotes before typing it in...
The command does the following - tell chkdsk to run over the C Drive. The /F tells it to FIX the errors, instead of just reporting, and the /R tells chkdsk to scan for corrupt sectors on the drive and if found, to move the data out of the sector, mark the sector as bad and then try and recover the lost info.
You will probably be advised that the drive is locked. Press Y and hit return/enter to ask it to do chkdsk on the next restart.
Once it runs, make sure you watch the display for any errors that may appear. It will give you the complete path to the file that is corrupt if it finds any.
. Also I can win with regular Civ3 without crashes because it doesn't have the victory score screen.
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