I'vehad civ 2 for a couple of years now.. and we got my computer upgraded about a year ago and i never got round to put ing Civ back on it until now... As far as i can tell it wont work because it is a windows 95/8 game... is there a patch or do i need to get a new version? I really liked the game and really want to be able to play it
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Funny - mine works fine without this. I'm using 2.42 and MGE on an XPPro SP2 Toshiba. I got some error messages the first time when I did not upgrade the Indeo video drivers to version 5, but nothing since. I did not set any compatibility mode either, it just seemed to work fine without it. I did a clean install from the CD.
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okay is now even more confused then I was last time... on the civfanatics site it says:
"Then unzip (using an unzipping utility such as WinZip) the files to the directory in which your version of Civ II resides (by default usually C:\MPS\Civ2). "
refering to the patch I've just downloaded to upgrade to pro but I don't have any of these folders on my computer... the CD won't even run in the drive. It just comes up with an error message...
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You can install the patch after you have installed Civ2. Don't worry about the patch until you have vanilla Civ2 up and running.
Other than that, I have no suggestions... except that Harry T's first post looked promising."I'm a guy - I take everything seriously except other people's emotions"
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No there isn't a scratch I've checked that already Basically I've put the disk in the drive, it doesn't auto run or come up with anything at all it just whirs a bit. And when i open the folder it comes up with all of the files etc like it always has. but when I click install it comes up with a small message window that says:
(in the blue bar at the top) 16 bit wondows subsystem
(undereath) 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.
and then it has a choice of Close or Ignore...
It did it on another of my games but because they are both ones that say 'windows 95/8 on the back i assumed that was why which is why I came in search of a patch to make it all better
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I believe that Civ II will install on early versions of XP, but not on the most recent versions. I suspect it may be something to do with service pack 2, but I'm not sure. Certainly there are other examples of early software that will no longer install under XP2 - Office 95 for example.
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