Reinstall of "Vanilla" 1.29f won't

[da_Vinci]

I was having repeated problems with Civ III 1.29f (the version in the Game of the Year edition I think, which is the version that I have as the purchased CD) freezing up at the infogrames intro screen and getting program not responding in the task manager.

So I assumed that a reinstall would be a good remedy. First thing that the install shield did was uninstall the game.

Now it won't reinstall. I get an error message that C:\Program Files\Infrgrames Interactive\Civilization III\redist\win32\autopan.flt is a "component transfer error" because access is denied.

When I clear that dialogue box, the install shuts down (this is at about 65% installation on the progress bar).

If I go to that folder, the file is present there (maybe it never uninstalled due to the access issue?). I have tried to move it to the recycle bin (to see if that allows it to install), but that move is denied. I changed the name (added an x) but that did not allow it to install.

Any ideas as to why this won't install? It installed when I first bought the game. I have an e machines laptop with a mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor. running XP home. It now has SP 2 which it did not have at the time of original install (could that be the problem?)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

da V

 

[Turner]

Try rebooting your machine, and see if you can delete it then.

If not, boot into safe mode (F8, generally, before XP starts loading), and delete it that way.

 

[da_Vinci]

Turns out that when I rebooted, the files in redist\win32 were gone (the folders wre still there).

So I am running the install, and the install finished. Lets see if it will open ...

Well, it reloaded and put an icon on the desktop, but still hangs up at the infogrames screen. At the movie on the second try.

I guess the uninstall - reinstall sequence did not work, but the uninstall - reboot - reinstall sequence does.

I did get a suggesting to do this "font smoothing" procedure after the install ... could that be related to this locking up?

da V

 

[da_Vinci]

Turns out e-machines had a BIOS upgrade in Dec 2004 on their support webpage. I installed that and now Civ 1.29f and PTW 1.27f are running just fine.