Peter Huebner <no.one@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:MPG.1ca15f049a56b41898974d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <hk5Zd.44707$%Y4.6639@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> thetasigma@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>>
>> Aside from the CivFanatics forum, does anyone know where else I might
>> be able to find info on this problem?
>
> There is always alt.games.civ3 <smile>.
>
> Having taken into consideration all the excellent things you said you
> have already tried, I was thinking this:
> Now, your problem sounds a bit to me as though some Windows file has
> been corrupted during the course of your hardware upgrade more likely
> than not. You could try a sytem restore to a point in time before the
> hardware change, or you could try to do a repair install of Windows.
> Better still, get one of the better versions of Windows, be it 2000 or
> XP - ME is notorious for doing weird-arsed things like you describe.
> Very last or maybe first thing I would try in your situation is to
> download and try a noCD patch (make sure theversion you download is
> compatible with your patch level of the game). If the copy protection is
> causing the problem, then that would take care of it (and save a lot of
> wear on your CD and CD-Rom into the bargain).
>
> h.t.h. -Peter
>
Thanks Peter. I got it working finally.
It seems that you & Jeff (over in Civ3) were right. The copy protection
was
the problem after all. I found no-cd patches for 1.07 & 1.29f and both
work
flawlessly.
Too bad I spent all night reinstalling my OS trying to fix the problem. It
needed it anyways I guess.
I wonder why it happened all of a sudden? Reinstalling Windows didn't even
help. Faulty registry entry maybe?
Anyways, I'm off to conquer the world...again.
Thanks again!!
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