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Lemming
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Vienna, Austria
Nov 2001
time: 06:16
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u do have a legal copy, do u?
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jadlakha
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quote:
Originally posted by Lemming
u do have a legal copy, do u? |
YES I GOT A LEGAL COPY!!!!! I PAID $50 FOR THE GAME FROM BEST BUY!!!!! AND NOW MY $50 PURCHASE NO LONGER WORKS!!!!!!!!
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species_8472
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Same here. Hey hackers come up with a work around. Please! I guess i'll uninstall/reinstall and live with the bugs a little longer.
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barefootbadass
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He's right, the patch does not work. It cannot find the CD with either autorun or the exe file. The cd is accessed and all that too like normal before saying it can't find it.
What a pathetic patch. They should have at least tested the patch with the normal game that you have to have the cd with. I know they probably have their own version that has all the data on a hard drive for their own convience but this is pathetic and negligent.
I guess I'll go reinstall the initial game but please, Firaxis, fix this and get a minor patch to take care of only this out FAST. Or tell us why this is happening how what we can do to make it work while we wait on the patch.
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barefootbadass
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Sorry, Firaxis, I just figured out the problem(at least for me) I have some drive that is hotswappable and therefore sometimes the letters are different. Anyway, go to the registry editor and check what drive civ III searches for the cd, mine was different from where the cd was. Change this value and voila!
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Tomsawyer
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I too had the No CD mixup. After thinking a bit I went into RegEdit (Win98SE) and changed the drive letter. Turns out somehow the game was trying to find it on my burner and not the main cd rom reader. Something is just fishy about having to modify a patch just to get it to work though.....
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Frugal_Gourmet
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New York City, NY, USA
Jan 1970
time: 00:16
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This is so hilarious... !
I mean, I'm sorry for the frustration everyone is feeling but ... WOW.
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jadlakha
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quote:
Originally posted by Frugal_Gourmet
This is so hilarious... !
I mean, I'm sorry for the frustration everyone is feeling but ... WOW. |
I dont see the humor.
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jadlakha
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Reinstalling and reapplying patch did not work. I also checked reg edit and the right drive is selected. So now I am outta ideas. Please some1 help cause I really want to get back to playing Civ III.
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CBH
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Dublin, Ireland
Mar 1999
time: 05:16
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If you have an automatic virus checker running in the background, disable it and try running the game. Worked for me.
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Downer
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strange..i'm getting the same error, course i have 2 cdroms(one a burner) but I've checked regedit and it seems fine, maybe its because i'm running xp?
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jadlakha
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quote:
Originally posted by CBH
If you have an automatic virus checker running in the background, disable it and try running the game. Worked for me. |
I went through and disabled all the background programs that were not needed to use windows through ctrl+alt+delete. Same problem, didnt work at all. This is a major issue and I would wish that firaxis would bother to adress it.
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Sn00py
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From New Zealand
Aug 2001
time: 13:16
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I'm sorry, but this was totally expected, when the patch came out, I was hesitate to download it, I knew it would cause more problems than fix them, so I just have to laugh at this. It's just so typical.
Here's my solution: Format, 
The worlds computer retailers, sellers, marketers, etc, need to sign a world pact saying they will not allow any Microsoft products on any of the computers they sell, and they must not sell any Microsoft Products on and off the shelf.
The OS they should install should be either Linux, or have Apple take over the PC world and let PC's use OSX and future OS's.
THEN and only THEN we can get back to the good old days and play proper and well built games.
I'm SERIOUS
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Capt Dizle
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add me to the list of folks now getting constant crashes with the patch...
no reason, just various types of illegal operations and crash to desktop events
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Saber_Cherry
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Texas
Oct 2001
time: 05:16
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I didn't install the path because it sounds like a hurried, QA-free hackjob (kind of like CIV III...). But I just wanted to respond to this:
The worlds computer retailers, sellers, marketers, etc, need to sign a world pact saying they will not allow any Microsoft products on any of the computers they sell, and they must not sell any Microsoft Products on and off the shelf.
My last computer, a standard Gateway 2000, came with some much crap pre-installed that loaded on startup it would hardly run. So I reformatted the hard drive. I installed Windows 95 off Gateway's disk. It booted up. I installed Office 97 off Gateway's disk. The machine would no longer boot, only giving a general protection fault. Microsoft is incompatible with itself =)
(turns out the problem was that the Office install put some stupid, unneeded lines in autoexec.bat and config.sys that made win95 unable to boot. But talk about poor QA...)
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jadlakha
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quote:
Originally posted by Ralf
Uninstall game + patch.
Reinstall game + patch.
Dont play old saved games after that. Start a new game instead.
Still problems? |
I SAID I ALREADY TRIED THIS!!!!! Maybe should read these threads before you show us all your ignorance. And if you read the thread you'd also realise with this problem we couldnt attempt to load our old save games anyways since our comps arent reading our Civ III cds so we cant get the game to run. Please read the whole thread before replying for goodness sakes.
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jadlakha
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quote:
Originally posted by Saber_Cherry
I didn't install the path because it sounds like a hurried, QA-free hackjob (kind of like CIV III...). But I just wanted to respond to this:
The worlds computer retailers, sellers, marketers, etc, need to sign a world pact saying they will not allow any Microsoft products on any of the computers they sell, and they must not sell any Microsoft Products on and off the shelf.
My last computer, a standard Gateway 2000, came with some much crap pre-installed that loaded on startup it would hardly run. So I reformatted the hard drive. I installed Windows 95 off Gateway's disk. It booted up. I installed Office 97 off Gateway's disk. The machine would no longer boot, only giving a general protection fault. Microsoft is incompatible with itself =)
(turns out the problem was that the Office install put some stupid, unneeded lines in autoexec.bat and config.sys that made win95 unable to boot. But talk about poor QA...) |
You'll are getting off topic, but the preinstalled crap that loads up at startup isnt my problem either, since I built my own computer from scratch so thats not my problem. But Firaxis or InfroGames or whoever needs to solve this problem quickly. I really love CivIII and would like to get back to playing it.
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herwin
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Sunderland, UK
Jan 2001
time: 05:16
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quote:
Originally posted by GodSpawn
Excuse me, but: bleurgh! OSX? Don't make me laugh! |
Why do you say that? OSX is BSD UNIX with an extremely nice user interface. I can run old-style UNIX terminal windows, the Aqua version, Mac classic, and Windows sessions simultaneously. How do you think I play Civ3? MS Office X.v makes the Windows versions of Office look ancient, and if something dies, the system just keeps trucking along. Apple seems to have pulled it off.
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Jodo Kast
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Read the posts and you'll see: If you bought the game the patch works, just uninstall and reinstall.
Most system configs are different, so this fixes it. If you have an illegal NOCD copy, then tough luck.
But you knew that.
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