I'm ticked off at my copy of Civ II: MGE...

Echolan · August 5, 2000, 20:38

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?

CornMaster · August 5, 2000, 22:07

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.

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Empress · August 6, 2000, 22:13

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.

Mao · August 7, 2000, 16:37

Wait, when you played it before, did you use the CD?

Echolan · August 9, 2000, 20:35

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.

Mao · August 9, 2000, 23:51

Can you play other games via your CD drive on your computer?

Ken Hinds · August 10, 2000, 02:11

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

Barington · August 10, 2000, 18:09

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.

August 12, 2000, 16:07

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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.

Ken Hinds · August 13, 2000, 03:39

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