PtW ISSUES

[DarwintheGreat]

Okay...I got the XP....I got the patch. I expected - oh I don't know - A GAME THAT WORKED!? I haven't even gotten to the game to experience the crash bugs because I don't seem to get any sound IN THE INTRO. When I play the regular game the sound works fine...and I have the latest versions of my sound card drivers. Is it too much to expect that when you buy a product...IT WORKS? PLease join me in letting the wonderful people at Firaxis and Infogrames know they owe us all a game that works or a refund.

Thanks for listening.

[Raion]

Works fine for me, and can even add a line to the ptw.ini file that does not play the opening intro movie stuff.

Uses a different bink32.dll file, so maybe the old one would work better for your system, don't know if it can be done that way, but

in ini file for Play the World

PlayIntro = 0

I think.
Its in the readme, although I have not tried multiplayer yet!

[Raiche23]

weird. works for me and i got xp.

[WarpStorm]

Re: PtW ISSUES

Originally posted by DarwintheGreat
PLease join me in letting the wonderful people at Firaxis and Infogrames know they owe us all a game that works or a refund.

Send it back for a full refund like it says in the readme.

BTW, this works fine for me.

[miccofl]

It works for me. I'm in five email games on two different forums. My email program (Outlook 2000) is giving me fits, but Civ3PTW is working great.

[ducki]

Works fine for me too.
Trade it in or simply return it, I guess.


This is on the assumption that your video and audio drivers are the latest versions and that your system meets the minimum spec, of course.

[Coracle]

Re: PtW ISSUES

Originally posted by DarwintheGreat
Okay...I got the XP....I got the patch. I expected - oh I don't know - A GAME THAT WORKED!? I haven't even gotten to the game to experience the crash bugs because I don't seem to get any sound IN THE INTRO. When I play the regular game the sound works fine...and I have the latest versions of my sound card drivers. Is it too much to expect that when you buy a product...IT WORKS? PLease join me in letting the wonderful people at Firaxis and Infogrames know they owe us all a game that works or a refund.

Thanks for listening.

Jeez! I haven't even been to this site since before PTW came out. But it looks like with Firaxis the more things change the more things sadly remain the same! Or perhaps I am too harsh as some people have it working.

[player1]

Yawn...

[isak]

Re: Re: PtW ISSUES

Originally posted by Coracle


Jeez! I haven't even been to this site since before PTW came out. But it looks like with Firaxis the more things change the more things sadly remain the same! Or perhaps I am too harsh as some people have it working.

Oh, I don't think you are - it should have become corporate standard that game makers drive around and help everybody install games, configure various sound cards, networking cards, etc.

It's only fair - after all they can't really expect us to know what's going on with the PC, can they?

[statusperfect]

Isak> good point

[vmxa1]

Not sure how it relates to Firaxis or any compnay with so many have not see the problem and a few have? I see this with many games on many sytems. Someone can't get it running and a ton of people can, what should I conclude?

[gr8madmax]

Originally posted by Raiche23
weird. works for me and i got xp.

Well, the game works in XP for me too BUT the last 3 times I've played the game, it has crashed after some turns. I didn't have auto-save turned on the first time around and lost a few turns worth of moves. I was so pissed when the game crashed but I couldn't stay away too long since I had to teach Persia a lesson for declaring war on me.

[asleepathewheel]

I haven't had any problems playing PTW SP either.....

[vmxa1]

The game or the system does have bugs and will hang on occasions. I have seen that with game like Moo that I have played on a lot of pc's and so many hundreds of times, but they will lock up at times. That is different than not even being able to install or fire up. If only a few see this, it is likely a configuration issue.

[DarwintheGreat]

Hey, the systems works fine....I've been playing Civ3 for months with noooo problems. Sound and video drivers are up to date and work fine for Civ3 but not for PtW. Did you notice they have a patch out for PtW ALREADY! I just think they should have worked out the bugs before releasing it for sale (just a sound business practice IMHO).