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Ok, I was having trouble previously with the main menu not opening up, yet still having music playing in the background... I downloaded the latest patches for the game and it requires me to have the cd in the drive... that is the case currently and I keep on getting an error saying that it can not detect the cd in the drive and to retry once the cd is in... is there any way around this step? Its a bit of a nuisance...
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lebensraum
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sorry i really can't help with that one, but my prayers are with you!
this is exactly the problem i started with.
so far i have tried
replacing the cd-drive
-- didn't help
reinstalling civ
-- couldn't do it because it won't read the cd
re-installing windows
-- that went fine, but now when i try to re-install civ, autorun creates all sorts of errors, and setup says it can't read from the specified device
ptw cd successfully installs directx, but then spits the dummy because it can't detect vanilla as being installed.
c3c setup starts correctly, then runs into the same problem.
copying the cd across to the hdd
-- goes fine until it runs into the art/movies/*.bik files, then chucks a wobbly
ever since this happened (ie. 'please insert cd message' appearing even though the cd is definitely in the drive), i seem to have run into every imaginable video problem and a fair share of system board probs
like i said, can't shed any light on it myself, but i'd sure as hell like to know whats going on
oh and WHY THE F@#$ DO WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THIS IRRITATING B. "PLEASE INSERT CD" THING IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! @#$% .. @#$% .. @#$%
edit: don't know if this will help with your problem but it appears we are not alone ...
http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=48
Last edited by lebensraum on 26-02-2005 at 20:48
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SilentWinds
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I downloaded the latest patches from the Civ 3 website... I think that its my Nivida Riva TNT 64 Pro video card... I re installed the game and the video card had an error and crashed my computer, so I have given up on trying... My computer is a knob...
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SilentWinds
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Yeah, I kinda did just borrow the game from my buddy and tried to install it... When I re-installed it I recieved a fatal error message about my video card, which crashed my computer... The thing that suprizes me though is that this is the first time it has done that... Its frusterating... I think that all the difficulty is result of my video card, and that even if I got past the undetectable cd error... that my card would still not let the game run... because its just that cool... Computers suck but they kick butt :P
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lebensraum
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know how ya feel
i'm working off a borrowed copy right now while a friend is on hol's. i REALLY want to go out 'n get my own copy, but it's gonna be $$$ down the spout if i can't work out the basic compatibility prob.s
it worked fine before, then one day i wake up and ...
please insert cd
epilogue:
maybe it really is haunted. i got my machine off a friend who'd been running an internet caf' for some time. after i explained all of the trouble i was having. he had another look at things. so far he has collected three towers in his appartment. every one of them worked perfectly well for years in the cafe. he unplugged them, took them home, plugged them back in ...
nada
like, seriously nada. not one of them has a pulse. it's getting so i have to run and hide when i see him on the street.
notre pere qui es aux cieux ...
Last edited by lebensraum on 27-02-2005 at 23:16
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