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    Got it - doesn't work

    I wish I had looked at the Civ3-Help forum to see the pain others have had.
    Anyway, got the thing Tuesday, 13th. Spent 4 hours updating drivers etc still cannot get it to execute - then I find out I have a snowflakes change in hell of getting it going with a NVIDIA TNT2 video card.
    I paid $110 for a box.
    This is why warez exist - unscrupulous companies (their help support is non-existent, I spent a few STD dollars ringing the states getting nowhere)
    I suspect Dan and Sid released this piece of, after paying themselves a bonus the month before...looks like OneTel
    hope they choke on their caviar
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    Computer requirements

    Thanks for the warning. I'm in the market for a computer so I can play Civ3. I was shocked (and relieved) to read your post, especially considering that some of the ads I was considering specified the very video card you mentioned. Thanks again for being specific. Does anyone else have any hardware conflicts? For uninitiates like myself, when I shop for computer parts, I don't normally know what equates to "Oh, this means it is (not) compatible with DirectX 8, etc."
    An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile,
    hoping it will eat him last.
    Winston Churchill

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    • #3
      Maccabee2, check Apolyton Forum Civ3-Help for know compatibility issue, know bugs and some workaround for graphic trouble (an older Nvidia driver solve some trouble added by the latest Detonator release, as far as I have read) and a refreshing bad autosetting (ending in a black screen) can be managed editing an INI file.

      Galah, I hope it can help you too, until the deserved patch.
      "We are reducing all the complexity of billions of people over 6000 years into a Civ box. Let me say: That's not only a PkZip effort....it's a real 'picture to Jpeg heavy loss in translation' kind of thing."
       - Admiral Naismith

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      • #4
        Thanks, Admiral, for your help. I'll let you know what system I wind up getting, and its specs. (Can't afford cutting edge; sailors don't make much.)
        Good luck, Galah. Keep us posted as to whatever you find,please. It does help.
        An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile,
        hoping it will eat him last.
        Winston Churchill

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        • #5
          Surely you can take the game back for a refund Galah? I know in Brisbane you cannot take a game back because you merely dislike it, but if it doesn't work or it is incompatible with your system within reason you can.

          Bkeela.
          Voluntary Human Extinction Movement http://www.vhemt.org/

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          • #6
            but then again in Brisbane we are much nicer !!!!
            GM of MAFIA #40 ,#41, #43, #45,#47,#49-#51,#53-#58,#61,#68,#70, #71

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