Official Civ4 S&T Off-Topic Thread

[Spirictum]

you really ought to buy it from the official website to support the Devs. Multiplayer for me adds so much fun to the game anyways

The game already conquered me, so it's a reason to buy it, but I don't have time to play it, so maybe when I get the time I'll buy it.

I downloaded it freely because as I said previously I'll only buy games I've already played and liked, so I download them first and if I find them worthy I buy.

I don't get it. I play Empire Earth I and Age of Empire I in windows 7.

Empire Earth I don't know, but Age I does work with no restrictions on 7? Good to know.

I can play Age II on 7, but only if I stop explorer.exe from running (which means having no desktop screen, start button or open folders). If I don't stop explorer.exe from running the screen becomes glitchy with the textures.

But the biggest problems I face nowadays concerning old games are with:
- Pool of Radiance: The Ruins of Myth Drannor
- Star Wars Shadows of the Empire


Also there are other games which only work under windows even older then XP, but then I may install more then one copy of different windows OSs on the XP machine to run anything (a friend told me to look at Twinsen, a win95 game). Also there is pitfall that probably won't work on Vista onwards.

 

[TheGryphonPrince]

I just had to post this image.

Back on topic, EEI does work on 7 and it works like a charm.

 

[TheNoob]

Wow this stinks; my computer is forcing me to update to Windows 8.1 in 4 hours.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

That's my biggest issue with windows, how it forces updates.

 

[Spirictum]

Well, I'm not sure about 8, but before it no update is really forced.

Windows updates may be configured to only take effect when you want them to.


Go to Control Panel and search for Windows Update (it's easier if you may visualize the Control Panel with several icons, instead of by sections, and to do this there is normally an option on the upper part of the screen).

Inside Windows Update on the left options, choose Change Settings

Then a box will appear in the middle where you may choose how to handle Windows Updates. I chose "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them"

With this only I can tell my pc when to do updates.


And OS updates (i.e. 7 Basic to 7 Student or 7 Professional) need to be bought, so no automatic updates here.

I'm not sure if you can handle this Windows 8 update the same way we can handle in 7, but give it a try.

 

[DKVM]

I downloaded it freely because as I said previously I'll only buy games I've already played and liked, so I download them first and if I find them worthy I buy.

I agree with this statement. Demos never have enough content to help me make a decision on whether or not to buy the game. Of course, I never pirated Civ or AoE.

 

[Spirictum]

I totally agree with you on demos DKVM.

My civ isn't original, because of the second part of my philosophy: The expansions market strategy just sucks badly, instead of buying one game you have to buy 3, and this is just because they release the game earlier without all implementations they want to make, and then they add the rest and make some expansions costing the same as the original (I'm not sure how The Sims is nowadays, but back when there was only The Sims 1, it was the master in this art, with almost 10 expansions if I'm not mistaken).

So I bought my original CIV back in 2005, got Warlords as a birthday gift from my ex-gf some time after CIV, and BtS I installed from a friend's copy. When I needed to re-install civ for the first time after all of this, I just downloaded the Complete Edition .iso and put it on my External HD.


I had an original AoE II, but that was back in the 90s, so I have no idea where it is now. Because of that I downloaded the .isos

 

[TheGryphonPrince]

Now speaking seriously, I do accept the demo statement. I usually download the games, play for 7 days (if it's really convincing or too "meh"ish) or up to 16 days (if it's a good game but not good enough for 7 days) and then I buy them.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

I find it so strange how some game work perfectly fine on Windows 8 but others don't. AoE I and II both work great, and so does SC3000, but Rise of Nations barely starts. Sim Copter (has anyone else here played that?) works fine but Sim Theme Park doesn't. Compatibility is strange.

 

[Manuss]

Rise of Nations works on windows 7.
Did you tried launching it in compatibility mode?

 

[CaterpillarKing]

Yes, it's just graphical bugs. The menu screen and everything flickers erratically.

 

[DKVM]

Anyone else here play Alpha Centauri?

 

[CaterpillarKing]

I wish :/ Probably wouldn't work anyhow.

 

[DKVM]

Not if you use DoSBox. I also recently acquired "Crisis in the Kremlin." A game made in 1992 which focuses on being one of three factions in the Soviet Union while trying to keep it from collapsing and keeping your job as well.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

I use DOSBox for SC2000, DOOM, and Railroad Tycoon. Also, that's where I played the original colonization, good game. How'd you get that game? Is it abandonware?

 

[DKVM]

Here

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

I just now finished Legend of Dragoon, after more than a decade of trying to finish it.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

Nice DKVM Now I can shadily play another game What's Legend of Dragoon?

 

[DKVM]

So does anyone have a strategy to survive til 2000 in the game "Crisis in the Kremlin?" I recently bought it and used DOSBOX to play it but I've only survived up to January 1991.

 

[trexeric]

I have added a quote to my signature! Never say I'm not hip.