New CD drive and now my game won't work.

[kmill25]

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

[Ethelred]

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]

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]

The uninstall/reinstall worked.

Thanks!!