Civ II won't work properly

[communism]

When I click on the Civ II Icon all I get is this message.

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.

What should I do?

[Bloody Monk]

Do a full reinstall--from the game disk--and see if that helps.

Monk

[N35t0r]

What version of windows are you using?

[communism]

XP

[Elephant]

Did you install, or are you trying to run from CD?

XP has "compatibility settings" for previous versions of Windows, although I did not have to fiddle with that to get my current copy of Civ2 Classic 2.42 to run without trouble. The one thing I needed to do before the install was to update the Indeo video driver. Uninstall Civ, update Indeo, and reinstall.

[Duircein]

I have downloaded the Indieo drivers and I am running WinXP SP 2 and I get the same error as the first person who started this thread. I am trying to install Civ II gold edition. I have tried my backup CD to no avail. My CD is not scratched. I have tried to run the setup.exe with different compatibility settings to no avail. Any information that you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

[Bloody Monk]

None of us has reported experience based on SP2. There are many programs that do not function with the new Service Pack. Unfortunately, Civ2 may be in that category. I hope not.

Has anyone installed SP2 and still enjoys Civ2 functionality??

Monk

[Scouse Gits]

My machines are all SP2 - and Civ continues to run without problem -- in all cases, however, Civ was installed before the SP

Stu

[Bloody Monk]

Thanks, Stu; that's good news.

So now we can assume that SP2 does not break Civ2, which it does for Corel's WordPerfect (isn't that curious?). But, maybe SP2 overwrites something (that is not otherwise being used) having to do with 16bit programs. Again I must ask, have you tried a full reinstall from the game cd?? Have you updated the drivers?? Have you tried using the "Compatibility" function in XP which allows older progams to run??

Monk

[Duircein]

I thought I had answered the questions, but to be more clear:

Yes, my game was not installed previously, so I was essentially starting anew from the CD.

Yes, I had the newest Indeo version, the graphic for starting displayed, but I will make sure all of my other drivers are updated.

Yes, I tried the compatibility functions, all sorts of combinations.

I emailed atari support and if anything comes of it, I will post here about it.

[Duircein]

Found what you may be looking for. Upon inspection, I found that my autoexec.nt file was missing. You need to create one and it should work fine, at least it did for me. Here are 2 links that explain how to fix the same problem:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_21080105.html

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767

Hope it helps you like it did me.

Thanks for all those that did reply

[communism]

Originally posted by Bloody Monk
Do a full reinstall--from the game disk--and see if that helps.

Monk

it wouldn't even let me reinstall the game. Now what? What the hell is this, it worked fine, now it won't even come on.

Never mind I got it fixed. Thanks fellas.