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I am having a problem with all of my saved games.
After about a week of play on Windows 2000 (Intel PII 450, 256 mb memory, 1.88 gb free hdd space) I started having problems launching the game. For some reason when I was starting the game the CD was not being recognised - I kept being prompted for the Civ3 CD. Note that I am running an original boxed version of the product, not a copy.
So I decided to uninstall and reinstall the game, making backups of my save files of course. So I uninstalled, rebooted, reinstalled, repatched, rebooted.
Initially attempts to load my old save games resulted in the Civ3 error "Not a valid save file". *ALL* my old saved game files I had (about a dozen), including autosaves.
However I found I could save and load games started from after my reinstallation normally.
After a bit of hunting around I found a saved game editor (Gramphos's Multitool Beta 0.93.5) that could successfully open and export saved games with apparent success, a process I hoped would fix the corrupted saves.
Yet attempting to load these games in Civ3 resulted in the error message: "DataIO operation system error: BIC". I have looked here and at civfanatics for a post or thread even mentioning this specific error, but only found DataIO errors pertaining to TILE, CITY, CULT etc.
I am curious as to why ALL my saved games should be corrupted - I would suspect a virus yet my scans have found no such infection.
I have attached a save game from early in the game, and a save from later on in the game, prior to any modification/exporting from Multitool.
Any help would definitely appreciated.
- F
After about a week of play on Windows 2000 (Intel PII 450, 256 mb memory, 1.88 gb free hdd space) I started having problems launching the game. For some reason when I was starting the game the CD was not being recognised - I kept being prompted for the Civ3 CD. Note that I am running an original boxed version of the product, not a copy.
So I decided to uninstall and reinstall the game, making backups of my save files of course. So I uninstalled, rebooted, reinstalled, repatched, rebooted.
Initially attempts to load my old save games resulted in the Civ3 error "Not a valid save file". *ALL* my old saved game files I had (about a dozen), including autosaves.
However I found I could save and load games started from after my reinstallation normally.
After a bit of hunting around I found a saved game editor (Gramphos's Multitool Beta 0.93.5) that could successfully open and export saved games with apparent success, a process I hoped would fix the corrupted saves.
Yet attempting to load these games in Civ3 resulted in the error message: "DataIO operation system error: BIC". I have looked here and at civfanatics for a post or thread even mentioning this specific error, but only found DataIO errors pertaining to TILE, CITY, CULT etc.
I am curious as to why ALL my saved games should be corrupted - I would suspect a virus yet my scans have found no such infection.
I have attached a save game from early in the game, and a save from later on in the game, prior to any modification/exporting from Multitool.
Any help would definitely appreciated.
- F
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