How to get Civ2 working in Windows 10.

[Dinner]

Did that at the time. They ignored me.

[Wernazuma III]

Yeah, something like Civ2 but better

We should make a wishlist of things we want to see in Civ3!!

[SlowwHand]

Tried Civ 3. Epic fail. Love Civ II.

[Dinner]

I still say dos box.

[Broken_Erika]

Yeah, something like Civ2 but better

Test of Time Patch Project is good.
More units, more terrains, more events....

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/german-thread-over-the-reich-jpetroski-vs-prof-garfield.651341/

[giblets]

Yeah, something like Civ2 but better

[BeBMan]

Should have really managed to produce a Civ 3 in all those yrs. Lazy bastards

[Broken_Erika]

It's weird that they haven't re-released it for download through something like Steam.

GoG has it, actually they may have fixed the psychedelic colours that i got trying to run it on any OS newer than XP......

https://www.gog.com/game/dungeon_keeper?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIoMHtqrqN5gIVCInICh1mOwtVEAAYASAAEgLeVPD_BwE

[Dinner]

Have you tried dos box?

[giblets]

It's weird that they haven't re-released it for download through something like Steam.

[Broken_Erika]

An XP Partition would be ideal, then you can play Dungeon Keeper.

[Ben Kenobi]

It's not hard. Just follow the steps. There just one game I haven't been able to get to work on my newer computer and that's KOTOR due to the graphics issue. I've considered doing that or making a partition with win 7 on my win 10 machine so that I can play everything. How are you doing braindead?

[Egbert]

All that tech stuff confuses me so i go buy an old second hand computer, with an obsolete version of Windows, to play old games.

The second hand computer costs me about A$80 Australian.

[Ben Kenobi]

There are a few new problems that have cropped up that weren't present in Windows 7 that anyone who wants to play civ2 has to do to get the program. First off you need the patched version that allows you to enter in city names.

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ2-patcher-for-64bits-os-v-2-0-release.468173/

This is mastermind's Civ 2 patcher for 65 bit OSes. Worked fine with windows 7, but you'll still need it to get Civ 2 working in windows 10.

After you've patched your version, you'll get a Civ2 without wonder videos or heralds.

The issue here is a documented change in Windows 10 to depreciate the indeo video drivers. I had a file up here with the drivers for those lacking them, but that file with the indeo drivers, can be found here:

https://www.free-codecs.com/indeo_codec_download.htm

These are the correct Indeo Codecs.

However, once you're done installing the Indeo drivers, you're not yet done. You're going to have to re-enable them as Windows 10 actually depreciates them entirely.

To do so, follow the instructions in this forum thread here:

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/indeo-codec-troubles-with-civ2-solved.362336/

And follow Foxahead's post.

And there you go. All the wonder videos and CIv2 the way it was meant to be played.