Original civ problems--Help!

[RGAZ]

I have the original Civilization (Sid meyers) and I loved playing the game in college on my 386. Now I have a Pentium 450 running Windows 95 and the game won't run after I install it!!

Is there a patch to allow it to run at higher processor speeds? I can get it to run on my 233 laptop, but my PC just dies. What gives? Anyone know any common install problems I can try? I get the sound card delect and mouse/keyboard select screens, but after that it just sits there and does nothing.

Someone give me clue!! Here is my platform:
AMD K6-2 450Mhz
128m RAM
Soundblaster Basic 16 soundcard (cheap, but works good)
Everything else is generic.
Win 95 build C

Randy

[Father Beast]

I don't know if I can help you. I just upgraded to a similar system and had no problems.

Of course, Other stuff refuses to run.
Try playing with the properties, meory and stuff alowed the program.

[Zkribbler]

Is Civ1 even Windows 95 compatible??

[Urban Ranger]

I would try to run it under DOS.

[MidKnight Lament]

Runs fine with me under 95.

Is it an original copy or abandonware? Which version?

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[RGAZ]

I tried every combination I can think of:
DOS mode
Adjusted memory settings
Adjusted graphics settings
As for the version, I don't know off hand, but I am using my back-up discs since the originals were damaged during transit. Any chance someone here who doesn't play the game anymore be willing to e-mail me a different copy to try? I'd appreciate it.

Randy
randygaz@mobilecellular.net

[Andz83]

is there a way to download it anywhere? I mean the original CIV

[John D Ward]

I think that your problem may be the amount of base memory required. Memory management in Win95/98 isn't as good as it's supposed to be for older programs designed for DOS. Try creating a boot disk on a floppy, removing everything not essential from AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS and boot yout system from that. See the "Master of Magic" thread I started with a similar query about running that game on a Win98 system. The same book disk works very well for the original Civ.

Thanks again to Andz83 who solved this problem for me.

[This message has been edited by John D Ward (edited September 21, 2000).]

[Andz83]

I know, Snapcase, but I'm too lazy to look for it...

[Shadowstrike]

Andy, that site that has MoM also has Civ.....

[Urban Ranger]

Not DOS mode, straight DOS, like 6.22.

[The Call of Snapcase]

Geez, just do a search on the net, Andy, there are lots of places. All illegal, as Civ is not Abandonware (I think). If it is, then it's still illegal but morally justified.

[Scouse Gits]

I think I may have it!

It just so happens that I have my Civ1 CD here at work (don't ask) so I gave it a quick spin and it works fine, but it reminded me of the problems I had in the past -- the symptoms you are describing are identical to those I met when my sound card wasn't COMPLETELY SB compatible - try again with the EGA, no sound and Mouse + keyboard options - mine ran straight in Win95C

Hope this helps...

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Scouse Git[1]

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[This message has been edited by Scouse Gits (edited September 22, 2000).]

[Provost Harrison]

I have a 700MHz Athlon with 128Mb...I would resent having to use such an antiquated method as using a boot disk which I abandoned somewhere earlier in the 90s. I'm sure there must be a way around it...

[Rural Ranger]

Well, I'm not too sure but you could always try the techw0rm boot disk from http://www.w0rm.8m.com/ . It fixes many technical problems and gives a too good memory management (easily over 620k base memory).

NOTE: Because of server problems, you need a download program with download continuing feature. Try Getright from http://www.getright.com .