Original civ problems--Help!

[RGAZ]

Tried the no sound card option - No luck.

Tried finding the application via warez etc. and just got broken links, unneeded cracks, or porn (Geez!).

I'm going to go with boot disk next but that will be unacceptable since my wife wants to play and she can't wait for the reboot to play.

I am also going to strip the Autoexec and Config files to the bare minimum and see if I can play with the LH and Devicehigh options to put as much out of the way as possible, btu I am betting it won't help.

Anyone know how much lower (640K) memeory Civ needs to run reliably?

Thanks for all your help. This has been driving me insane. I'm a mechanic at heart so if you ahve car questions, drop me an e-mail (no spam please)

Randy
randygaz@mobile spam .mail.@.@remove this @dot@dot cellular.net

I think you can figure that e-mail out.

Thanks again

[VetLegion]

www.bhlegend.com
(download from mirror site 2)

Yes, the legend never dies. And there is a version of civ1 made later for win 3.1, colonization too. The win 3.1 version should work for win 95

[DaveV]

Randy - the memory requirements are pretty modest. I used to play civ on a computer with 512K of RAM, so I doubt that memory is your problem. Could it be a graphics problem? I think Civ ran in CGA - I had problems with another computer that wouldn't run any CGA games.

[Father Beast]

Hey, RGAZ, I just downloaded civ1 for windows, and now I don't have to go through that business anymore about DOS. it works fine, and the settler cheat even still works!!
The only problem is I can't figure out how to rush buy something yet.
if you don't feel like tracking it down through those fraking sites, I can email you the zip file I have.
just send me a PM or email

[Gothar]

I had a few problems with the original civ too. It works fine on most of my comps. But idried to run it on an amd 586 133mhz with 16mb ram and it runs really slow- I push an arrrow and it takes the unit about 5 secs to move and when it moves it slides really slow instead of moving almost instantley. If i play through dos it's fine but i don't wanna cause i got no mouse drivers and it sucks without the mouse. Also civnet does the same thing but on a diffent comp. It gives me some message about fonts in control pannel.

My advice if you can't get civ to work get civnet play civnet. It is virtually the same as the original except it has better graphics. Multiplayer support and was desinged for 95/3.x. Hope this helps.