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Tips for running Civ2 in the modern era.
Civ2 is starting to get a little long in the tooth.
I managed to get the full version of civ working (including wonder videos and sound), once again this morning. Transferring to another computer. There's now three patches that are required.
1. Install Civ2 from the CD. I still have MGE.
2. You'll need both of the patches, the Civ2XP64 patch and the Civ2x64Editbox patcher. This fixes two x64 bugs that can cause the game to crash badly.
3. You'll need a codec tweak tool, in order to bypass windows shutting off the Indeo video codec. My indeo video hack will start up the indeo video codec, but Windows will allow the codecs to install but won't let the codec run.
This can be found here. The codec tweak you're looking for is under ACM/VFW x86 in the codec management section.
This will get everything working aside from wonder videos. To get the wonder videos to run, download them directly from the CD. Heralds for some reason runs properly, but the wonder videos do not, you might as well transfer everything over as it's not large.
If anyone still wants files/etc I have them all along with the needed tools to install the full game. Let me know.
I hope everyone is doing well!
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Civ2 is starting to get a little long in the tooth.
I managed to get the full version of civ working (including wonder videos and sound), once again this morning. Transferring to another computer. There's now three patches that are required.
1. Install Civ2 from the CD. I still have MGE.
2. You'll need both of the patches, the Civ2XP64 patch and the Civ2x64Editbox patcher. This fixes two x64 bugs that can cause the game to crash badly.
3. You'll need a codec tweak tool, in order to bypass windows shutting off the Indeo video codec. My indeo video hack will start up the indeo video codec, but Windows will allow the codecs to install but won't let the codec run.
This can be found here. The codec tweak you're looking for is under ACM/VFW x86 in the codec management section.
This will get everything working aside from wonder videos. To get the wonder videos to run, download them directly from the CD. Heralds for some reason runs properly, but the wonder videos do not, you might as well transfer everything over as it's not large.
If anyone still wants files/etc I have them all along with the needed tools to install the full game. Let me know.
I hope everyone is doing well!
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