Patch Update 12/7/01

[Jer8m8]

Re: Is this a known BUG ?

Originally posted by LordGreyhawk
II put up Invention to the Annoyed Zulus
and asked what they would give:

Incense
World Map
13 Gold per Turn
20 Gold

My advisor said they would never go
for the deal - which the Zulus proposed!

I offered this trade and they did
refuse it.

I had a similar problem. Just re ask for that deal, and DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING. Even if you change it back, it won't work

[Davebo]

If I have this right - anyone familiar with editing the registry should be able to work around this.

Run regedit32 - browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames Interactive

In there, there's a new entry as shown below...



The entry for "Civilization III v1.16f" seems to be missing all the info that's contained in the "Civilization III" key, as shown below...



Simply create those entries in the "Civilization III v1.16f" key - worked for me.


Maybe I'm wrong on this, and Jeffrey (FIRAXIS) is talking about a different glitch, but this fixed the NO CD problem for me.

Hope this helps someone!

[Falconius]

Using Win98, got this problem:

Got to 2950 BC and my warrior takes a barbarian village. Barbarians spring up. My warrior still waits for orders.

But guess what? It won't move! Game keeps telling me it has already moved. Tried to activate other units and get the same "already moved" message. Yet the unit still waits for orders. I can't advance to the next turn! Hit Enter, Spacebar, and all sorts of other keyboard combinations.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Falconius
Got to 2950 BC and my warrior takes a barbarian village. Barbarians spring up. My warrior still waits for orders.
Yet the unit still waits for orders. I can't advance to the next turn! Hit Enter, Spacebar, and all sorts of other keyboard combinations.

ctrl+n was the key combo in civ2 for end turn, try it.

[sophist]

Good call on that, davebo. Can you post that here:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37291

[Davebo]

Whoops

It's crashing for me as well using the function keys, in WinXP Pro...


AppName: civilization3.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: opengl32.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.0 Offset: 0002ebfc

Oh well - bummer...


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SB-Live
Promise Ultra100
IBM 40GB ATA100
WD 18GB ATA66
Pioneer 16x DVD
Panasonic 8x burner

[Rhuarc]

No problem here

I don't know what the problem seems to be. I am using WinXP Pro, and I applied the patch, and mine is running just fine. It found the cd perfectly and everything. I don't know, but maybe there is something different on the home version of XP or in Win2K? Anybody haveany ideas?

[Drefsab]

A Real Shame

This is a real shame. Especially since I just installed Win XP Pro last night.

Damn you Firaxis

[Alex 14]

I'm downloading the patch now, luckly I have a duel setup so I don't have to rund WinXP. Thanks Mark, for seting up the mirrored version on Apolyton, Firaxis server is just so slow, even on cable.

[Doti]

I have windows 2000, sp2 and it does not run with the new patch. I run as a power user and NOT as administrator. Under administrator I get the no cd message. Under the power user I get a "please run as administrator" message. I hope the fix to the patch will allow me to run as any user level. And I gotta ask, who tested the patch?

(and actually, I had to upgrade my default account to power user, because I ran it under normal user priveleges, and they did not have access to write in the program file directory). Save games and high scores files and all that should be stored in the users profile directory, not under program files).

[Swissy]

Re: Patch Update 12/7/01

Originally posted by Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS We're working on a solution, but if it is a significant change, it will need to be resubmitted to testing.

Hopefully you will not use the same testing facility that did not catch the compatibility problem the first time.

[TechWins]

Davebo, this is pertaining to the NoCD problem. I can't seem to find the file name for 'Unistall_Path' nor 'Install_Path'. Could you provide the directories for those two files for me, please?

[cityhelper]

some bugs with patch

Some bugs with patch:
1) When I go over a goody hut the guy automatically moves his second move (I can't control it).
2) When you get both the Lighthouse and Magellan's Expedition and the lighthouse expires, Magellan's movement bonus doesn't work anymore (I got Magellan's BEFORE the lighthouse expired).
3) The war and peace lines under the diplomatic screen don't appear all the time.

I have XP with AMD 1.4 Gig proc. and 512 MB ram.

Thanks,

cityhelper

[Venger]

Bug city - it is fairly reproducable.

Windows 2000
P3-850 (2 CPUs)

Playing a saved game (from original version).

It seems if I click in the bottom right window (where the unit info and stuff is) I get a Civ3 error and dump. Happens every time.

I've never had a lockup in Civ3 prior.

Venger

[Alex 14]

The patch no longer shows the AI moves, or you worker moves, this is a bit uninformative but certainly cuts the time you have to wait for your next turn. Usually in the modern era it's about 15-20 seconds now. The new features in the editor are nice, but there isn't any majore changes, the patch looks alright so far.