Thread Tools
Old August 5, 2000, 20:38   #1
Echolan
Settler
 
Local Time: 22:41
Local Date: October 30, 2010
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Park Ridge, New Jersey
Posts: 11
I'm ticked off at my copy of Civ II: MGE...
okay... I've been running civ II MGE successfully for... what... 1 1/2 years on my old compaq P133 with Win95, now i get a new comp and i try to install it on my dell PIII 800 running Win98 and i get a crapload of errors during installation and the autoplay crashes before it even starts, i get a damnable "Program has performed an illegal operation" error as soon as i put my cd in the frickin' drive. What is the problem? is this game incompatible with PIII or Win98, or am i screwed permanently?
Echolan is offline  
Old August 5, 2000, 22:07   #2
CornMaster
Prince
 
CornMaster's Avatar
 
Local Time: 19:11
Local Date: October 30, 2010
Join Date: May 2000
Location: St. John's, Newfoundland
Posts: 501
I run Civ 2 MGE under Win98 so that's not your problem. Maybe your new CD-ROM doesn't like the CD. Maybe you could disable autorun and copy all the files to your hard drive and then install it and get a cd check disabler so you don't need the CD.

Just a thought. Keep me posted maybe I'll be able to help you later.

------------------
"I'm too out of shape for a long fight so I'll have to kill you fast"
"If the great Emperors of Rome, Egypt and Greece were alive today, do you think they would prefer Coke or Pepsi?"
Administrator of the CornEmpire Forum
CornMaster is offline  
Old August 6, 2000, 22:13   #3
Empress
The Empress
 
Empress's Avatar
 
Local Time: 16:41
Local Date: October 30, 2010
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: cause mingy loves me
Posts: 2,699
When you are loading the program, do you have other programs opened? I used to get the same error on my AMD when I had several browsers opened.
Empress is offline  
Old August 7, 2000, 16:37   #4
Mao
Apolytoners Hall of Fame
Deity
 
Local Time: 18:41
Local Date: October 30, 2010
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: Apolyton
Posts: 12,351
Wait, when you played it before, did you use the CD?
Mao is offline  
Old August 9, 2000, 20:35   #5
Echolan
Settler
 
Local Time: 22:41
Local Date: October 30, 2010
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Park Ridge, New Jersey
Posts: 11
it ran with the cd on my old comp.
hmmm.. .maybe i should try putting in my cdrw drive... maybe it'll run off that. But i lent it to my friend to see what happened on his, it works fine for him.
Echolan is offline  
Old August 9, 2000, 23:51   #6
Mao
Apolytoners Hall of Fame
Deity
 
Local Time: 18:41
Local Date: October 30, 2010
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: Apolyton
Posts: 12,351
Can you play other games via your CD drive on your computer?
Mao is offline  
Old August 10, 2000, 02:11   #7
Ken Hinds
Prince
 
Local Time: 17:41
Local Date: October 30, 2010
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: USA
Posts: 464
Echolan,

Is your CD Drive something other than the next Letter in line after the last hard drive on your system, e.g., last drive D: and CD Drive F:? If so then you probably are going to need to either change the drive letter to the next in line or install your CDRW drive again. As I pointed out to someone a couple of weeks ago in another thread, Civ 2.42 was notorious for not liking to CD Drives on the system, especially if the CD came after a writable drive. I don't know about MGE but it may also throw fits.

Ken
Ken Hinds is offline  
Old August 10, 2000, 18:09   #8
Barington
Chieftain
 
Local Time: 22:41
Local Date: October 30, 2010
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: London UK
Posts: 63
quote:

Originally posted by Echolan on 08-05-2000 08:38 PM
okay... I've been running civ II MGE successfully for... what... 1 1/2 years on my old compaq P133 with Win95, now i get a new comp and i try to install it on my dell PIII 800 running Win98 and i get a crapload of errors during installation and the autoplay crashes before it even starts, i get a damnable "Program has performed an illegal operation" error as soon as i put my cd in the frickin' drive. What is the problem? is this game incompatible with PIII or Win98, or am i screwed permanently?


Also had loading problems since I got a Dell PIII 700 Laptop; Never had any with my old Gateway 166. Does load after a few goes however. Usually loads OK if it is the first program loaded after power up.

Barington is offline  
Old August 12, 2000, 16:07   #9
Legman
Guest
 
Posts: n/a
quote:

Originally posted by Ken Hinds on 08-10-2000 02:11 AM
Echolan,

Is your CD Drive something other than the next Letter in line after the last hard drive on your system, e.g., last drive D: and CD Drive F:? If so then you probably are going to need to either change the drive letter to the next in line or install your CDRW drive again. As I pointed out to someone a couple of weeks ago in another thread, Civ 2.42 was notorious for not liking to CD Drives on the system, especially if the CD came after a writable drive. I don't know about MGE but it may also throw fits.

Ken


I guess I'm that someone. And as I'm sure you'll be happy to know Ken, I finally got the music playing! See the thread Civ II music won't play . I'm forever grateful to you for the very helpful advice you gave me!

The problem was solved once I got around to properly installing the second CD drive (a writable one), and I think that might do the trick for you too, Echolan. My regular CD drive is E:\ and the formerly uninstalled writable drive is D:\. That caused the game to not be able to play the music from the CD.

Best of luck.
 
Old August 13, 2000, 03:39   #10
Ken Hinds
Prince
 
Local Time: 17:41
Local Date: October 30, 2010
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: USA
Posts: 464
Legman,

As I said before, Glad to be of help. Happy to hear that you have the music back. I still haven't got around to making that new CD with the music from both the Old and New civ CD's.

Ken
Ken Hinds is offline  
 

Bookmarks

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 18:41.


Design by Vjacheslav Trushkin, color scheme by ColorizeIt!.
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.2
Copyright ©2000 - 2010, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Apolyton Civilization Site | Copyright © The Apolyton Team