23-07-2003 07:22									#1
	Datapatch works with 1.25 code patch? Suffering from ads?

Is it suppose to work with the Datapatch????????????

1.25 works fine, but as soon as I add the datapatch by
unzipping and installing with winzip... "crash" ...'Direct X
not available' as soon as I start a new game or reload
a saved game. The new check utility then says there
are two corrupted files and recommends reload Moo3.

If it is the winzip, is there a unzipped version of the
datapatch I can download.

I may have missed something at Atari or here. Any help
would be appreciated.

Cavin forever,

Dennis

	23-07-2003 16:27									#2
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

As far as I know the code patch wholly supercedes the previous patches, so you don't need to load anything over it. The data patches were just earlier attempts at making a quick fix and should be ignored now.

	24-07-2003 00:38									#3
	Got spare money?

yes, that is correct.

Data patch is not needed, but at first was a quick fix.
Then came the beta patch, 1.2B for fixing some things in the game, but not all things, yet.
The final version of the 1.2B patch, which does not need any previous data patch, was released in its present version as the patch 1.2.5
So, 1.2.5 patch is the only thing that is needed to play the new MOO]I[.

Further things will probably be looked at, like some diplomacy messages that were done by another programmer, and as of yet, are not completely implimented in the game, because it is a black box, sort of sub routine, that needs to be determined how to fix, and perhaps, some other things. The text in diplomacy that is needed in the message below does not show up, but can be seen (as to what empire it is about) in the above over the head of the alien.

So, the patch makes the game better.