Help with Civ II Multiplayer (not the multiplayer itself)

BrutusIV · December 27, 2002, 23:54

Well, about 10 hours ago i found my "Civilization II Multiplayer" CD, that was given to me by a friend as a goodbye gift a long time ago, and i've tried installing it, and everything works fine (To my amazement), i make a new game..kill the spanish, and then my advisorts want to talk to me, so i talk to them, what i see is...nothing, i can see thier text, but instead of them talking, all i see are black squares (which even hide some of the text).

Then i updated to the latest version (2.42 or 4.24, don't remember which..hehe), and it can't find a dll, i get it, put it there, then it can't find another dll, i get that too, and then it can't find another dll which i didn't really manage to get, but my guess is...it shouldn't be asking for all these dlls.

I'm using Windows 2000 Service Pack 3, are there any (civ) updates that i didn't notice, any patches/dll packs/whatever that can help my problem?

I've uninstalled Civ 2 for now, gonna install it in a few seconds and then install the patch, and i'll tell you what are all the dlls that it asks for.

Gravy Smoothie · December 28, 2002, 00:33

Hm...if you are using Civ II multiplayer, you installed an incompatible patch -- 2.42 is the latest patch for the original Civ II.

The most recent Multiplayer Gold Edition patch, if I'm correct, is 1.3.

Hope this helps,
Gravy

BrutusIV · December 28, 2002, 00:40

Where can i download that patch?

Gravy Smoothie · December 28, 2002, 01:00

um, look in the downloads section of this forum, otherwise you may have to search yahoo! for it....i d/led it recentl, but i can't remember where from offhand. Try microprose.com.

Gravy

BrutusIV · December 28, 2002, 01:33

Downloaded this:

http://apolyton.net/dir/index.php?si...56&having=7743

But it sais that it can't find a copy of MGE installed on my comp, i don't see anything on my CD or in my game that sais "gold edition", i just see "multiplayer", is there some other patch?

EDIT: Hm..it seems i don't have gold edition, but i don't have the regular civ II either, what do i have?

EDIT #2: Here's my civ II CD, if anyone can figure out what i have, please tell me

EDIT #3: Hm..it seems my Civ II refers to itself as "Ultimate Civilization II", but the credits say:

Edit #4: Hm..apparantly i have what is mentioned in the great library as "Ultimate Civilization 5.3 (European Edition) allowing Hot Seat/Multiplayer Games - apparently only released in the UK.", the CD says "made in UK"..so i think that's correct, so...now what? what's the latest patch?

And if there isn't a patch, how do i fix the thing that i can't see advisors (and now that i think of it, i can't see those dancing characters that should appear when i talk to other kingdoms)?

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Windows 2000 Service Pack 3

Scouse Gits · December 28, 2002, 07:53

You seem to have the european "Ultimate Civ" - your best bet is to get the "No Limits Patch" from the Directory - this is compatible with the Ultimate - brings you up to patch 1.3 and allows giga maps - but has the unfortunate effect of disabling the scenario editor

SG[1]

BrutusIV · December 28, 2002, 09:05

Uh..Where exactly can i find that patch?

Scouse Gits · December 28, 2002, 09:28

http://apolyton.net/dir/index.php?si...ts=3929&cat=57

SG[1]

Cedric Greene · December 28, 2002, 10:03

Also Mercator has the official patch for the Multiplayer UK edition on his site, sorry don't have the link. Also I would recommend downloading the latest Indeo video drivers and codecs from www.ligos.com