Vista?

[Mac Daddy]

only thing abot vista is you need 2gigs vista uses alot of it otherwise you'er computer will run s-l-o-w.oh by the the way just bought a new computer 2gig 320 hard drive,acer modle , just haveing a bit of trouble getting drivers for printer and scanner. still have'nt tried civ out

[Mac Daddy]

ok i just dowloaded civ 3 and installed gs. gamespy will not work with vista as of yet the guys at gs are working on it.yes i did seek support with it and went to help thats where i found out that vista will not support gs ... for now

[CanuckSoldier]

The only way to get GS to work with Vista is to un-install GS, un-install Civ3, then reinstall GS before Civ3, that way it won't detect it. Then you can access the lobby by browsing the Strategy section, on the main GS page that GSA displays, for Civ3 Conquests. You can't see the games list this way, but it will let you chat which is better than nothing.

CS

[Mac Daddy]

ok i tryed it that way.but when i reinstalled civ 3,i went back to no civ lobby in gs.but it did work awhile i had it up but closed it then went back to it, i got the big no-go .so i think you are right gs cant see civ is there any other way to make gs not see civ3 . also maybe you should know the civ i have is civ complete this may make a diff/ i dont know.

[kao]

Hi Civers..

I got new computer now and Vista Ultimate with it.. so far i can´t get into Gs Lobby.. and going crazy with so much new software im getting.. to make programs work..

Does anyone know how to get into Gs lobby..with Vista
U:(timate..

If no help im getting back my good old Xp..

Ty,
Kao

[Mac Daddy]

same here ,gs helper dont know when it'll be fixed

[CanuckSoldier]

Ok I have a solution to your Arcade problems!! Dump Arcade No really!

We in Civ4land never could use arcade so a Civer and programmer, Eiffel made a replacement for us and I convinced Firaxis to get Gamespy to allow our new lobby chat program access to the lobbies.

Civ4fans is this program, and the latest Alpha has the C3C lobby added. It is a work in progress so feel free to post any problems, but I've been using it for ove a month now in this form and it gets the job done. It doesn't display the games list as we can't get Gamespy to let us have access to that data. But it does everything else.

www.civ4fans.com/Civ4Fans2007alpha.zip

Just extract the files into a new folder on your HD and create a shortcut on your desktop. You have to register and email and create a username and pw, but nothing any harder than Arcade was.

Enjoy

CS

[jexturp]

heh

[kao]

Im enjoying Vista now... i never tried Linux but i´ve heard from friends that they prefer it comparing with windows, guess i must try it one day..

Vista actually improve speed computer, much faster then before with Xp but maybe its my all new computer with this dual core processor..

Anyway, Vista is the future and all this Gs programs or any ancient ones are part of the past. I´m sure the new ones will come to vista ultimate or any other new operative systems...

Civ4 is a drop on evolution, Vista ain´t.

[jack]

vista sucks

[MzCiv]

you are absolutely right jack - vista SUX i HATE IT HATE HATE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CS HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I dont have any probs using Gs with vista ; but i cant get my civ to work
so i re-downloaded it and it wont launch - tells me "error loading font - code 28"

i thought it was the civ download file, so deleted it and d/l'd from ANOTHER site - still telling me same thing. (btw - i use the no-cd versions) but even when i tried using the cd version - got SAME freakin message !!!!

It starts to launch, screen goes black, then i get that stupid lil message and at the bottom of it, it tells me game will now exit.

Sigh - i miss sucking in futures - plz help!!!!

[Avogadro]

Just bought comp with vista today. Spending 50 bucks to redownload civ complete. It better work.......

[Avogadro]

I'm so smart

I found this online.....

This won't much mean to most people who read this, but if you're stuck and looking for a solution, then you'll be glad you found it. What am I talking about? Well, if you found this, you're probably having the same problem I've just had, installing Civilization 3 with the Conquests update, the latest patches, and then being unable to play it because of an error message: "Error loading font. Code 28".

I've read many solutions to this problem, and the most ridiculous one, and the "official" one put forward by Atari/Infrogrammes is to delete all Lucida Sans font files from your Windows/Fonts folder! Unbelievable that this could ever be considered a "solution".

The REAL solution to the Code 28 problem is this: Go to your Civ3 folder (whereever that is on your harddrive), go into the "Conquests" folder and then rename the file LSANS.FOT to -LSANS-.FOT (or indeed, anything you like, so long as it isn't LSANS.FOT!). You can now play Civizilation III, with Conquests, on ME, XP, Vista, whatever!

The reason for the big is that within the LSANS.FOT file is instructions for Civilization to load the LSANS.TTF (the actual LucidaSans font file) from "C:\BreakAway\Civ3\Conquests\LSANS.TTF", and if the file isn't there, the game won't load. Of course, this isn't even the default path for the game, so why Breakaway games should include this file with their patch is beyond me. But they did.

I wanted to post this on a Civ3 forum somewhere, but I couldn't find an active thread about the problem, so at least here it should be here for good. Hope it helps somebody!

[TETRO]

ok i tried changing LSANS,and i get error #13 now,also my LSANS file did not have .fot in the file name,will vista be able to play civ conquests or gamespy?or am i just wasting my time,thanks for any help anyone can give me

[Avogadro]

Conquest works fine in vista. Unistall everthing.

1-Install civilization three
2-install conquests
3-download 1.22 patch and save to civ3 folder

follow these directions

thunderpeel2001.blogspot.com/2007/03/small-update-civilization.html

also uf trouble overwriting files

Even running as Administrator may leave you without permissions to modify
some files or folders, even ones that you have downloaded and installed. To
modify (copy, delete, rename) files or folders you can take Ownership of (in
your Username) and grant yourself Full Control permissions of the files or
folders in question described in the following tutorial. Another way to gain
access to modify files and folders includes going to the Start button, typing
in Windows Explorer, right-clicking on this and selecting Run As
Administrator. You should then have "elevated privileges" to do whatever you
wish to files in Windows Explorer. There is also a program called Unlocker
that you can use to gain access to modify files and folders (see link below).