Can I run Civ III on a laptop that has a video card without 3D. It has
DirectX 9 installed but Direct3D is not enabled. Otherwise it meets
the system requirements and can display 24 bit in 1024x768.
Thanks!

I have some suggestions for Civ4.
One, I still envision a game with at least a 100 civs. I know, speed becomes
an issue, but with processor speeds inching up to 5 Ghz+ and memory now
measured in GB instead of MB, it's becoming more feasible. Civ I had six,

I am currently playing a game on C3C on a Huge map with a total of 31 Civs
competing at once!  For those of you who haven't tried it, you should do.
It's mad!  I'm playing Monarch and leading the Science race but am so far
behind what I usually am at this point that the Science ...

People see my games and can join the "room" but when I press launch they
never connect. I have a firewall but disabling it still doesn't help (people
see the game even with fw on). So what can be the problem?
PS: All people log from the game (not gamespy) and the pings are usually

Mine would be the industrial age, first when I get to lay down railway lines
as it makes defence so much easier. Getting replaceable parts is great
because then I can pay back all those other civs who gave me so much grief
throughout the ancient and medieval eras.

How do I change the names of a leader?
And is there a file of names of cities that I can edit (like as in Civ II)?
TIA.
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I there a way to save a multiplayer game in Civ III Conquest?
Thanks

Is Civ III a turn based game or is it a real time game ?  
Thanks!
/p

There are some annoying features about Civ3 and this is one of them.
I have captured a town, I don't want to risk a defection, so try to starve
the town down to a population of 1, and then want to add some workers to
build up my own ethnically cleansed town.

I reckon there should be a sniper unit that can shoot an extra square away.
After all, there are marines and paratroopers.
Cheers

      I'm using a lot of airpower in this game and I thought of a
couple of things that would be a big help:
1)  The ability to toggle on and off what units are currently
available for movement.

A friend told me about this.  when you have a resource on the map such
as salt-peter or some other exhaustable resource, the countdown on its
lifespan starts as soon as a road is built to it.  Therefore he
suggests not to connect resources to roads you aren't ready to use.  

Oh no. I thought I will tweak my map and now I cannot install conquest - I
recently had to change hard drive.
It gets to 60% and then I have error message with  DX installer
file: D:directX\mdxredist.msi

I hadn't really considered how much I get into a roleplay mode in Civ3
until a recent session of the ongoing Rise of Rome (C3C) game that my
son and I are playing. He is Rome, I am Macedonia, and we are allied
against the Persians and Carthage (the scenario rules lock Rome into

Dear everyone,
I'm having major problems using CIV3 PTW - apart from being quite slow,
I find the program locks-up and crashes if I attempt to communicate
with another civilisation.