06-08-2000 05:38									#1
	I'm ticked off at my copy of Civ II: MGE... Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

okay... I've been running civ II MGE successfully for... what... 1 1/2 years on my old compaq P133 with Win95, now i get a new comp and i try to install it on my dell PIII 800 running Win98 and i get a crapload of errors during installation and the autoplay crashes before it even starts, i get a damnable "Program has performed an illegal operation" error as soon as i put my cd in the frickin' drive. What is the problem? is this game incompatible with PIII or Win98, or am i screwed permanently?

	06-08-2000 07:07									#2
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I run Civ 2 MGE under Win98 so that's not your problem. Maybe your new CD-ROM doesn't like the CD. Maybe you could disable autorun and copy all the files to your hard drive and then install it and get a cd check disabler so you don't need the CD.

Just a thought. Keep me posted maybe I'll be able to help you later.

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	07-08-2000 07:13									#3
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When you are loading the program, do you have other programs opened? I used to get the same error on my AMD when I had several browsers opened.

	08-08-2000 01:37									#4
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Wait, when you played it before, did you use the CD?

	10-08-2000 05:35									#5
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it ran with the cd on my old comp.
hmmm.. .maybe i should try putting in my cdrw drive... maybe it'll run off that. But i lent it to my friend to see what happened on his, it works fine for him.

	10-08-2000 08:51									#6
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Can you play other games via your CD drive on your computer?

	10-08-2000 11:11									#7
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Echolan,

Is your CD Drive something other than the next Letter in line after the last hard drive on your system, e.g., last drive D: and CD Drive F:? If so then you probably are going to need to either change the drive letter to the next in line or install your CDRW drive again. As I pointed out to someone a couple of weeks ago in another thread, Civ 2.42 was notorious for not liking to CD Drives on the system, especially if the CD came after a writable drive. I don't know about MGE but it may also throw fits.

Ken

	13-08-2000 12:39									#10
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Legman,

As I said before, Glad to be of help. Happy to hear that you have the music back. I still haven't got around to making that new CD with the music from both the Old and New civ CD's.

Ken