Patch "4.0" causes crashes...need help!

[stljeffbb]

Hi everyone....I own the DOS version of Colonization, version 2.25, and I tried to update from the links given at the (awesome) unofficial Colonization website, but it keeps on causing crashes on my system....

I have a Win98SE with a K2 AMD at 475mhz, 16MB ram, and I tried inserting the Files and Stacks lines in my config.sys...

The stock version works fine, but one question I have is, does the "4.0"/3.0 patch work with my version? It will run for a while, then it crashes....sometimes loading an auto gives a reprieve for a few years, but then it happens again....

Thanks in advance....if I figure it out, I will post a solution

 

[stljeffbb]

Well....low and behold, I think the problem was runing the Canalization patch to fix the battle wins error...I'm going to try to hex edit as mentioned on these forms and run some tests...

 

[stljeffbb]

Did some hex editing and some tests....seems to work fine now...my guess is that there was a problem using the batch file for the Canalization fix....now that it's hex edited, no need....if you don't hear from me again, I'm happily playing Colonization

 

[The Rusty Gamer]

Patch 4.0? Where do you get that from and what is it supposed to do?

 

[stljeffbb]

Hi The Rusty Gamer....I don't even remember now! I would say type in "Canalization" using your favorite search engine and it should come up....it worked well, but I got sucked into playing Civ IV lately, so not so much Colonization for now...

 

[The Rusty Gamer]

Well, I learnt that:

Canalization is the suppression of phenotypic variation.

but how does that help?

 

[stljeffbb]

Here, try this:

http://www.colonization.biz/

It's looks ancient, but it's great!