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kmill25 is offline kmill25
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Jan 2002
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  Old Post 24-05-2002 05:05
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New CD drive and now my game won't work. Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

I purchased a new CD-RW drive and now my game will not run. I need some help here.

Ethelred is offline Ethelred
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Mar 2002
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Tired of ads?

You may want to reinstall the game. New CD drives shouldn't have a problem unless its bad drive. However if you have ADDED the drive rather than replaced it your drive letters are now different in any case. For some reason (carelessness I would guess) Civ III has trouble running from a different drive than it was installed from.

What I would do is copy the save folder and any other mods you have to another place on the drive. Unistall and then reinstall.

Actually I would try hacking the registry to chang the drive the game wants to run from myself but I can't recommend that unless you are experienced in it. Reinstalling should do the trick unless the drive itself has a problem.

SpencerH is offline SpencerH
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Tired of ads?

Another alternative since you own the game' is to pick up the hacked .exe that doesnt require the CD. Thats what I did when a program I installed added a virtual drive with a drive letter before my cd drives. It took me ten minutes to find and install it. Why do they bother with the bull**** copy protection?

kmill25 is offline kmill25
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Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

The uninstall/reinstall worked.

Thanks!!

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