CTP won't run in Win XP

[Grandpa Troll]

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!

[Biggles]

WOOOOO.

Actually I found it very useful.
I also, did not know what video card was on this computer. Went to MS and there it was, listed, together with the latest driver.

[Grandpa Troll]

xp auto detects latest drivers which is very handy indeed when reinstalling OS..

BUt this isnt what this thread was about

this is about the file system and saving any MP Games and the inability to reload them


Gramps

[Shaddar]

Here is one that I haven't seen posted here yet, and have never experienced myself.

I have loaded CTP back onto my system recently (Win XP) and when I run the program, it starts but when the opening screen comes up, none of the buttons have any writing in them. The buttons still work, but I don't know what is what?
I have tried compatability and updated my video card. Tried Patch 1.2
Any other suggestions out there? Or anyone had this happen to them?

Shaddar

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Shaddar
I have loaded CTP back onto my system recently (Win XP) and when I run the program, it starts but when the opening screen comes up, none of the buttons have any writing in them. The buttons still work, but I don't know what is what?

<wild guess>Perhaps your fonts are missing or corrupted?</wild guess>

In fact, I did have this happen to me when running CTP2-AE, but it went away when I recompiled, so I never discovered the cause.

[Shaddar]

Any idea where I would look to replace them or to discover if their are missing?

Shaddar

[thehappies]

I just installed CTP on a windows XP machine and at first it didn't work. When I changed the compatability to Win98--single player games worked fine. However, when I double click on my files from my PBEM games, they won't open. It does the same thing that happened before I changed the compatability. Any ideas of why the single player will work but I can't open the PBEM files?

[thehappies]

I messed around with things a bit and now when I double click on PBEM files, it just brings me to the starting video sequence and then the usual game to start a new game or load a single player game. But it won't open the actual turn for the PBEM game. I'm baffled.

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by thehappies
I messed around with things a bit and now when I double click on PBEM files, it just brings me to the starting video sequence and then the usual game to start a new game or load a single player game. But it won't open the actual turn for the PBEM game. I'm baffled.

What is the association with .csg files?

[thehappies]

When you say 'what is the association with the csg files', I'm assuming that you mean what application does it point to for opening them. It says "unknown application" right now. But it does open ctp to the main menu when I double click on them. I read the readme file and I opened and closed ctp like it said to try to get it to work right--but it didn't change anything. It also says 'type of file: csg file' and I think it should say 'civilization call to power saved game', right.

p.s. A friend of mine named Kim married a guy named John Bytheway . . . I think.

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by thehappies
When you say 'what is the association with the csg files', I'm assuming that you mean what application does it point to for opening them. It says "unknown application" right now. But it does open ctp to the main menu when I double click on them. I read the readme file and I opened and closed ctp like it said to try to get it to work right--but it didn't change anything. It also says 'type of file: csg file' and I think it should say 'civilization call to power saved game', right.

When you go to the explorer options, file types tab, what does it say under CSG? Check under the "Advanced" button (or whatever it's called) as well.

p.s. A friend of mine named Kim married a guy named John Bytheway . . . I think.

There are more John Bytheways around than most people would expect.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by J Bytheway





There are more John Bytheways around than most people would expect.

But none as important to us as you

[thehappies]

On the 'files type' tab it says "csg file". And that's it. It doesn't really say anything further when I click on the advanced button. Near the bottom of the dialogue box, where it says "opens with"--it's followed by nothing. I'm assuming this is the problem. It's not pointing to the right application to open the file. Should it be pointing to civctp.exe? I just tried clicking the change button and selecting the civctp.exe program as the one to open it, but it doesn't seem to be letting me chose that as an option for some reason. I keep trying to select it as the program to open the files and it won't show up as an option on the list of programs to open it with.

Could this have something to do with the fact that, to get it to run at all even on a single player game, I had to change the compatability to windows 98?

Ugh.

[J Bytheway]

I would be able to help you more if I ever read this thread while I was running Windows, but I never seem to do so... I'll try and remember to have a look and find out what it should say when I next boot into WinXP.

[thehappies]

Beautiful. Thanks for the help.