18-11-2002 11:44									#1
	Colonization Crash Put an end to popups!

It took me a while to find a forum dealing with Colonization, even shared with other games. My question is, how do you play a whole game of it on Windows 98 without it constantly crashing at key moments, including (often) startup.

	25-11-2002 11:27									#2
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what version are you using ? i never crash, and its easy to beat

	09-12-2002 20:20									#3
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I've never had it crash either.

	09-12-2002 20:25									#4
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IIRC Colonization never crashed on me either. Could it be that you are running something in the backround?

So long...

	09-12-2002 23:14									#5
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My 'lockups' are the Close - Ignore type.

I've found that I can just click Ignore about 3 times and it will go away, and I can keep on playing.

	15-12-2002 01:06									#6
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close as in close the town screen? or close as in close the european markets/docks????

not sure what close your talking about

or it could be your settings, try adjusting the game settings?

	15-12-2002 22:43									#7
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Sorry in taking so long to get back to you all. My error, for those who've asked, usually happens at startup, right after the king proclaims you viceroy. If by a miracle I get past that, it usually also happens when a random building is built, a founding father joins congress or during an Indian attack. It seems to be a dos error that just shuts the game down with a message I can't fathom and returns me to Windows. Can anyone help me with that.

	17-12-2002 21:35									#8
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I have never been able to get the DOS version to work in Win9x, but there was a Win3.1 version made which I can get working. A patch is needed, last I checked it was still on the Hasbro website. The final victory screen crashes the game, but at least I've gotten in an entire game at that point.

Problem is that only the DOS version had the map editor, and only the DOS version had editable text files (sigh).

	19-12-2002 01:28									#9
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Hmm, I know that the windows version of Colonization was fairly unstable (on Windows 98, at least), and that a patch resolved a few (but not all ) of those serious problems. I haven't had any problems with the Dos version, other than that it can be (very) slow starting up.

	19-12-2002 10:05									#10
	Put an end to popups!

i can't get the dos verson to work, but on my win 98 it works fine, windows version, i have had odd crashes.....but like 5% of the time, which is acceptable to me

	24-12-2002 06:15									#11
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Ok I've got a windows version of Colinization...but when i try to play it, it says I'm missing a "wing.dll" ?? What am I missing....and yes....I got it from Kazaa...

Hey, what did you expect.....I couldn't find it for sale around my area...

Thanks

	24-12-2002 07:19									#12
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WinG is the predecessor of DirectX.

Here's one download link. You need to place it in your System directory. If you don't have one, place it in your System32 directory.

	24-12-2002 19:49									#13
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it seems that you can either play the dos version or the windows version, a lot of people seem to have trouble running one or the other.

Patine, I had all those same crashes trying to run Colwin, and additionally could make it crash anytime by trying to access the colonizopedia. my only solution was to get colonization for dos reinstalled (I have the CD). It works, but if you have a newer sound card, it won't play sound

I put an old sound card back into my system so I could get sound in dos games.

	04-01-2003 04:21									#14
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I'm running Windows ME and the game crashes quite frequently, but I save quite frequently so I don't get too upset when it freezes up on me.

	08-01-2003 09:46									#15
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Thanks a lot, guys. I got the patch and the WinG and at least it's playable now, though it still occassionally crashes. I may just have a flawed copy. Oh, well. I can play it now without nearly as much stress. If anyone has any more advice, I will be checking the forum every now and then.

	19-01-2003 09:24									#16
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Strange--the DOS version of Col works perfectly on my Win98 computer. Tried the Win 3.1 version and it was so buggy it was unplayable. Go figure

	22-01-2003 20:59									#17
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I was having a lot of crash problems and then shut of the sounds and it became relatively bug free.

	19-02-2003 13:25									#18
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Dunno if anyone can help me but i can't get the dos version to run on XP. Can get the windows version to run fine but i want a map editor and can't get any of the mto work. Any suggestions or do i have to revive my old win98 computer???

	20-02-2003 02:50									#19
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quote: Originally posted by domin Dunno if anyone can help me but i can't get the dos version to run on XP. Can get the windows version to run fine but i want a map editor and can't get any of the mto work. Any suggestions or do i have to revive my old win98 computer???

Running old DOS games on XP can be very difficult, but here is an article I have bookmarked that may help you:

http://www.minnemacs.com/sandbox/xp.html

Others recommend creating a DOS boot disk to bring the machine in DOS mode to run the game.

Still others recommend keeping an old machine around to play these games.