Civilization 1

[Kreepah]

sound wont work in xp any suggestions

[efthimios]

VDMsound? DOSBox? Civilization III?

[Kreepah]

civilization 1 i tried vdms an dosb, they both get into the game but no sound and also its slower than normal.

[Eagle of Fire]

I don't think Civilization I sport sounds. You would need to run the setup and activate PC speaker...

A lot of people find the sound coming from the PC speaker bloody annoying tough, so you know. :)

[Kreepah]

yeah, workds with IBM sounds.. extremely rank but, at least its bearable on a low volume and better than no sound .. i guess.

[Flodelarab]

Hi all

I am surprised with your problem because it is exactly what happened when i used Civilisation with Windows XP.

But with the dosbox, it can use the false soundblaster and the game runs at a correct speed. Try it and tell us.

Civilisation is the best game (abandonware or not). I couldn't stand not playing it :-)

:bye:

[Kreepah]

thanks, you legend Flodelarab this is perfect! beautiful sound and normal speed :cheers:!
i agree this game OWNS.

i wonder why it didnt work before in dosbox? ... oh well

[Omuletzu]

Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Jul 16 2005, 04:22 AM
I don't think Civilization I sport sounds. You would need to run the setup and activate PC speaker...

A lot of people find the sound coming from the PC speaker bloody annoying tough, so you know. :)
I think it had support for soundblaster along with a few more soundcards

[kreeper]

hmm now when i use dosbox to try run civ it doesnt work. it gets up to the part where you choose mouse and keyboard. i choose one and then it pauses for a couple seconds then exits automatically. :cry:

[blastradius14]

hmm. are you using dos-box on its own or d-fend?

[Kreepah]

dos box 0.63 on its own ... it worked not long ago, then i tried playing it not long ago now it doesnt :blink:

[blastradius14]

Well, now you will need to edit the config file for dos-box to allow it to run with the settings of your computer. I would get d-fend so you don't have to do all this.

[Sebatianos]

Well it should work. Just in case DOWNLOAD Civ once again (maybe you had a bad archive file). At least it works perfectly for me (so I guess yours should work too).

[Kreepah]

i got the cd version of civ. Anyway i worked it out, the folder was named as civili~3 not civili~1 (dunno why it changed) anywau does anyone know how to get it to say civili~1 again.

[blastradius14]

Rename the folder itself? Also be aware that you may be pathing to the wrong game.

[Eagle of Fire]

The original directory name is "civilize".

DOS names were up to 8 letters max, adding to that a 3 letters extention. The reason of the ~ is because Windows allow you to pass this limit.