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loluna
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Brooklyn, NY
Oct 2000
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I have been playing Civ2 for a good 4 years now, the first game I ever bought for my computer. I just got a laptop, a Compaq LTE 5300, Pentium 133, 32 mb ram, 1.3 gb hard drive, and no cdrom. I have been trying to install CIV2 on it, by using a parallel cable to transfer all the files from the cd to the laptop, and then install. I installed win98 2nd edition like that. The program installs fine, but at run time, it gives an illegal operation, a general protection fault error. I can't figure out why, can somebody please help?
Scouse Gits
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Liverpool, United Kingdom
Nov 1999
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Which version of civ2?? MP requires the CD to be in the drive in order to run - v2.42 does not - there is a 'patch' (some would say hack) for the former. In the latter case you have a real problem - what you might try is getting hold of the VCD software from, for example, here Cutting the Virtual CD on your base machine importing it to the laptop together with the VCD software and running from the virtual CD - I do this on two of my machines.

p.s. if you can manage the Kanji the japanese version of the software will import the music files as well!!

Good civin'

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Smash
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Vancouver Canada pacific time
Jul 1999
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Isn't the "cd required" dependant on the size of the installation you did?
Scouse Gits
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Liverpool, United Kingdom
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not on a PC Smash ...

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WhiteKnight
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Feb 2000
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If you try and play without the CD in the drive, you will just get the little window "Civ2 CD not detected. Insert and retry?" The game shouldn't crash.

I would try to reinstall again. Something must have went wrong there.

Andz83
King
Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany, Europe
Mar 2000
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only MGE and TOT require the CD... you can play the standard civ without the CD
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