08-12-2001 05:55									#1
	patch 1.16f: solution to can't find CD under windows 2000 Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

As posted in the patch thread on general.

For anyone who has win2k (dunno about XP home), you can easily change the drive letter. Right-Click on "My Computer" and select "Manage." Choose "Disk Management" from the tree on the left. On the right side, right-click your CD-ROM drive and select "change drive letter and path." Then click the Edit button on the dialog that appears. In the next dialog change your drive to be the first available one. It might have to be the first available one AFTER your windows drive; I'm just guessing. You might also be able to ADD a new drive name so that your CD-ROM drive is associated with two different drive names at the same time, but I haven't tried that (in case you don't want to screw things up that depend on the CD-ROM drive being where it is now).

I believe you will experience this problem if there is a gap in the lettering sequence between your Windows drive and your CD-ROM drive.

This should work for Win2k and XP. If you're encountering this problem on a different OS, this won't help you.

Screenshots of relevant dialogs attached.

Attachment: win2k-drive_change.zip
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	08-12-2001 06:45									#2
	Possible solution to WinXP / W2k Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

If I have this right - anyone familiar with editing the registry should be able to work around this.

Run regedt32 - browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames Interactive

In there, there's a new entry as shown below...



The entry for "Civilization III v1.16f" seems to be missing all the info that's contained in the "Civilization III" key, as shown below...




Simply create those entries in the "Civilization III v1.16f" key - worked for me.


Maybe I'm wrong on this, and Jeffrey (FIRAXIS) is talking about a different glitch, but this fixed the NO CD problem for me.

Hope this helps someone!

Last edited by Davebo on 08-12-2001 at 08:18

	08-12-2001 08:16									#3
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In case this problem isn't limited to W2k/XP boxes, use regedit for Win9x/ME, not regedt32.

Just thought I'd point that out...

	08-12-2001 09:12									#4
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happened on my win98

	08-12-2001 09:18									#5
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

Is this *the* problem the Firaxians mentioned regarding the patch?