Won't Play on SCSI, and Grid Lines Cause Crash

RBlanchard

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I installed Civ4 in my UltraPlex Wide SCSI CD-ROM, but it won't play from there, or my old Yamaha SCSI CD Burner. Support on the phone said 'try another drive', and it will play from my IDE DVD-ROM, or DVD Burner. She said she didn't know of a SCSI compatability problem, and I haven't seen it mentioned in the Forum.

Grid Line Blues
Late in the game ~1900 AD, selecting grid lines seizes the game for quite a while, and when it resumes the game usually crashas after a turn or two. This happens at high or medium resolution.

Premature Game Drop.
Late in the game, again ~1900 AD, it occasionally quits without warning.
My system is a bit long in the tooth now at over a year since build (Asus K8V SE Deluxe mobo, A64 3000+, 1GB DDR400 RAM, ATI All-in-Wonder 9700Pro 128MB, with the latest Catalyst drivers).
Civ4 runs impressively at high reslution, at 1920X1200 on a Benq 23" widescreen, with discrete 5.1 sound, without glitches until late in the game.

Has anyone had any of these problems?

Also, does the discrete 5.1 sound really work?
 
I don't know about your last 2 problems since I've never encountered them, but as for the SCSI drive problem, I think I can answer it for you.

It's more then likely caused by SafeDisc4 (the copy protection civ4 uses). Almost all modern copy protections are incompatible with scsi drives because well, currently all optical drive emulators can only emulate SCSI drives, and drive emulators are convennient tools for pirates. You can try SD4Hide but that's usually for people that play the game using an image file.
 
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