Civiliza Demo 4 Is Out!

[Mark_Everson]

Hey dexter:

I tried it but got an error. Maybe I'm not up to date on directX?

It said (and why M$ didn't make Error dialogs so you can copy the text straight from them I'll never know)

The CIVILIZA_D4.EXE file is linked to missing export DDRAW.DLL: DirectDrawCreateEx (and there it stops, more M$ stupidity).

I tried it with D4B and got the same error.

So is there a place I can download the latest version of DirectX?

-Mark

[dexter4dxm]

sounds like you've already solved the problem

You can download the latest version of DirectX here:

http://www.microsoft.com/directx/homeuser/downloads/default.asp

[Dale]

Mark:
Are you on NT or Win2K? I used to get that error after compiling as "Release" configuration on those OS's. I had to compile as "Debug" configuration before it would work.

[Mark_Everson]

Hey Dale, thanks for the thought, but I'm just on ol' Win98. I'll try the download next time I'm useless

[dexter4dxm]

dale if you're right about NT/2000 then people with those OS's are out of luck if they want to play civiliza. there are no "debug" builds anymore, everything is strictly "release".

i haven't got a chance to test civiliza on NT/2000 systems, so this kind of info would be useful.