21-01-2004 07:49									#1
	Can't get Civ 2 gold to work ? Help !?! Please ! Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

My computer keeps telling me that is hasd failed to connect to the game machine ... Waht could that be ? Anyone have a guess ? It's definitely not my Bro's computer .. I used his before and its kosher .. I would appreciate any advice !

	21-01-2004 08:30									#2
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Civ 2 as in TWO? This is the Civ THREE forum. That said, if it is indeed Civ 2 then what is your platform? (Windows 98 etc.)

Civ 2 = Windows 98
Civ 3 = XP

I hope this helps

	21-01-2004 08:57									#3
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A bit OT (of this post, which itself is OT, and mine is actually on topic to the forum ), but Civ3 doesn't require XP to play...you can use 98 or ME too.

	21-01-2004 09:43									#4
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Thanks, Switch I was stuck in 98 for years with Civ II and did not like that it did not go on to XP. However, I assumed no backward capability for Civ III.

	21-01-2004 23:59									#5
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Hmmm. I have Civ2 installed on my HP desktop and Sony laptop. Both have XP and it works fine. Then again, I only have Civ2 FW. I never did buy MGE.

	22-01-2004 00:11									#6
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civ2 gold works poerfectly well on XP... no mods or changes needed

	22-01-2004 01:01									#7
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My copies were so old; I never realized to rebuy them after XP came out. This opens new horizons...

	22-01-2004 03:06									#8
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My Civ3 doesn't work on Windows '98 - it installs but won't run.

I tested it, however, on a laptop with XP and it worked fine.

	22-01-2004 03:23									#9
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I have run CivIII, then PTW and C3C on my Win98SE system. I use it often when I have my XP system tied up.

I have not had Gold for some time, Test of Time works fine and it is basically the same thing.

	23-01-2004 11:37									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Crimson Sunrise My Civ3 doesn't work on Windows '98 - it installs but won't run. I tested it, however, on a laptop with XP and it worked fine.

I have the same thing with the Uni computers - only they are running NT 4.0 The problem there is that DirectX doesn't support that OS, so make sure you ahve the version of that that is required before trying Civ3.

Can't connect to the game machine? Wonder what that means? I know SMAX and possibly Civ2 sometimes have problems with XP. You may want to try those forums for help. Otherwise you may need to try another OS (if you ahve one around). Win 2000 works fine with basically every game I have ever tried, including DOS based games like Doom, although you need a sound emulator.

	23-01-2004 11:45									#11
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Whoop - just found this thread on Poly where yaroslave had the problem and fixed it. He disabled an XP program called 'Themes' that auto-started and it worked. Other potential solutions are posted there ny other people. He finds a better reason here also.