posted April 06, 2001 08:42

Well, its been a while since I played CivII. In fact I loaned my original copy to a friend and haven't seen it since. BUT I was in Target the other day, and given my penchance to browse the CIV III boards, I was itching to play and there it was! Civ II for $9.99!!! I picked it up, brought it home, looked at the OS requirements, noticed that there was no Win 2k, and thought to myself --

quote: Well, lets try it anyway

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Lo and behold, it don't work .

Has anyone figured out how to get Civ II to work on Win 2k?

[This message has been edited by Zardos (edited April 06, 2001).]

	posted April 06, 2001 09:06

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	posted April 06, 2001 09:41

"Staring at your screen in horror and disbelief when you open a saved game is one of the fun things of a succession game " - Hueij
"The Great Library must be built!"
"A short cut has to be challenging,
were it not so it would be 'the way'." - Paul Craven

	posted April 11, 2001 11:50

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	posted May 08, 2001 18:27

quote: Originally posted by Scouse Gits on 04-06-2001 09:06 AM As you might expect we have had several discussions on this topic - the consensus is that the problem lies either with winG.dll or the Indeo drivers both of which are graphic specific problems. there was some helpful discussion on this thread which might help. Final conclusion - yes you can run Civ2 on Win2K, but ...

I've been having the same problem. I'm sorry, I read through the posts and am not able to find a solution... Can somebody tell me please? Is there any dll that needs to be upgraded / emulator to be downloaded? I've been DYING to play that game...

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	posted May 09, 2001 04:16

Some of the problems in the other threads mentioning total freezes, reboots or blue screens of Win2k are telltale signs of something being wrong about the specific Windows 2000 installation itself, since Civ 2 should run just fine under Win2k inside its 16-bit Virtual Machine subsystem without affecting the stability of whole computer. I have not had a single system-wide crash due to Civ 2 or other 16-bit DOS/Windows programs, but there is one irritating feature about my installation of the NT Virtual DOS Machine that only seemed to surface recently: after closing Civ 2, the whole Windows user interface freezes for 5-10 seconds or so. Ctrl-Alt-Del works and mp3s keep playing, but the graphics just aren't updated for a while, so even my NTVDM system does not work quite the way it should - in addition, every once in a while, when no 16-bit programs are open, NTVDM performs an illegal instruction and is closed, although it has never done it during Civ 2, so I can still play the game just fine.

	posted May 09, 2001 04:44

Does this help ?

quote: Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola on 04-28-2001 10:03 AM David Pritchard has posted the a solution for civ2 2.42 win 2K compatability problems over at civfanatics: http://forums.civfanatics.com/Forum10/HTML/000120.html [This message has been edited by Lefty Scaevola (edited April 28, 2001).]

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"A short cut has to be challenging,
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