Patch Made My Civ Iii Not Work Anymore!!!!!!

[Downer]

strange..i'm getting the same error, course i have 2 cdroms(one a burner) but I've checked regedit and it seems fine, maybe its because i'm running xp?

[KloePoek]

i have the same problem... i had it before the patch too, so i had to dl a crack for it eventually (YES I HAVE THE LEGAL VERSION! )

but now i can't play anymore

[jadlakha]

Originally posted by CBH
If you have an automatic virus checker running in the background, disable it and try running the game. Worked for me.

I went through and disabled all the background programs that were not needed to use windows through ctrl+alt+delete. Same problem, didnt work at all. This is a major issue and I would wish that firaxis would bother to adress it.

[Ralf]

Uninstall game + patch.
Reinstall game + patch.
Dont play old saved games after that. Start a new game instead.
Still problems?

[FrostyBoy]

I'm sorry, but this was totally expected, when the patch came out, I was hesitate to download it, I knew it would cause more problems than fix them, so I just have to laugh at this. It's just so typical.

Here's my solution: Format,


The worlds computer retailers, sellers, marketers, etc, need to sign a world pact saying they will not allow any Microsoft products on any of the computers they sell, and they must not sell any Microsoft Products on and off the shelf.
The OS they should install should be either Linux, or have Apple take over the PC world and let PC's use OSX and future OS's.

THEN and only THEN we can get back to the good old days and play proper and well built games.

I'm SERIOUS

[Capt Dizle]

welll

add me to the list of folks now getting constant crashes with the patch...

no reason, just various types of illegal operations and crash to desktop events

[Saber_Cherry]

I didn't install the path because it sounds like a hurried, QA-free hackjob (kind of like CIV III...). But I just wanted to respond to this:

The worlds computer retailers, sellers, marketers, etc, need to sign a world pact saying they will not allow any Microsoft products on any of the computers they sell, and they must not sell any Microsoft Products on and off the shelf.

My last computer, a standard Gateway 2000, came with some much crap pre-installed that loaded on startup it would hardly run. So I reformatted the hard drive. I installed Windows 95 off Gateway's disk. It booted up. I installed Office 97 off Gateway's disk. The machine would no longer boot, only giving a general protection fault. Microsoft is incompatible with itself =)

(turns out the problem was that the Office install put some stupid, unneeded lines in autoexec.bat and config.sys that made win95 unable to boot. But talk about poor QA...)

[GodSpawn]

The OS they should install should be either Linux, or have Apple take over the PC world and let PC's use OSX and future OS's.

Excuse me, but: bleurgh! OSX? Don't make me laugh!

[jadlakha]

Originally posted by Ralf
Uninstall game + patch.
Reinstall game + patch.
Dont play old saved games after that. Start a new game instead.
Still problems?

I SAID I ALREADY TRIED THIS!!!!! Maybe should read these threads before you show us all your ignorance. And if you read the thread you'd also realise with this problem we couldnt attempt to load our old save games anyways since our comps arent reading our Civ III cds so we cant get the game to run. Please read the whole thread before replying for goodness sakes.

[jadlakha]

Originally posted by Saber_Cherry
I didn't install the path because it sounds like a hurried, QA-free hackjob (kind of like CIV III...). But I just wanted to respond to this:

The worlds computer retailers, sellers, marketers, etc, need to sign a world pact saying they will not allow any Microsoft products on any of the computers they sell, and they must not sell any Microsoft Products on and off the shelf.

My last computer, a standard Gateway 2000, came with some much crap pre-installed that loaded on startup it would hardly run. So I reformatted the hard drive. I installed Windows 95 off Gateway's disk. It booted up. I installed Office 97 off Gateway's disk. The machine would no longer boot, only giving a general protection fault. Microsoft is incompatible with itself =)

(turns out the problem was that the Office install put some stupid, unneeded lines in autoexec.bat and config.sys that made win95 unable to boot. But talk about poor QA...)

You'll are getting off topic, but the preinstalled crap that loads up at startup isnt my problem either, since I built my own computer from scratch so thats not my problem. But Firaxis or InfroGames or whoever needs to solve this problem quickly. I really love CivIII and would like to get back to playing it.

[Ralf]

Originally posted by jadlakha
I SAID I ALREADY TRIED THIS!!!!! Maybe should read these threads before you show us all your ignorance.

Bad tempered and grumpy as ever, eh?
Well, in that case it serves you right that you have big problems while my game works perfectly.

[Wrong_shui]

Originally posted by Ralf


Bad tempered and grumpy as ever, eh?
Well, in that case it serves you right that you have big problems while my game works perfectly.

LOL you tell him ralf

[herwin]

Originally posted by GodSpawn


Excuse me, but: bleurgh! OSX? Don't make me laugh!

Why do you say that? OSX is BSD UNIX with an extremely nice user interface. I can run old-style UNIX terminal windows, the Aqua version, Mac classic, and Windows sessions simultaneously. How do you think I play Civ3? MS Office X.v makes the Windows versions of Office look ancient, and if something dies, the system just keeps trucking along. Apple seems to have pulled it off.

[Akka]

I would advise you to wait and use the no-CD patches.
Since Diablo 2, it's nearly constant that honnest buyer of games have a harder time running their games that hackers.
I personnally nearly never uses the original CD I buy, often I just buy the game, then put it on my shelves and DL the warez version. Work better, smoother, and does not destroy my CD driver. Most of the people won't bother to buy the original games though. And I must admit I start to consider to only buy non-protected software, like BG2, that allow to make backup copies and do not are a pain in the ass to run.
Or "how the companies increase piracy trying to reduce it".

[Jodo Kast]

It works fine

Read the posts and you'll see: If you bought the game the patch works, just uninstall and reinstall.

Most system configs are different, so this fixes it. If you have an illegal NOCD copy, then tough luck.

But you knew that.