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1. CIVILIZATION II MULTIPLAYER GOLD EDITION DOWNLOAD HOW TO
2. CIVILIZATION II MULTIPLAYER GOLD EDITION DOWNLOAD NO CD

Now, if you want to be able to run it with no CD in the drive, do the following based on whether you have the Civ II MGE disc or the Civ Chronicles disc (note: this is not a crack). If you're content to run the game with the disc in your drive, you're done! This should work properly with all the advisor movies, wonder movies, heralds, music, etc. Now, within that folder, right click on the executable and set it to run in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP2. I named my folder "CivII MGE" which works. I assume somewhere in the code is some bug that's truncating the number of characters the game can read in the file structure. Basically what happens is that if the directory name is too long, the scenarios won't open for example, if you name the installation folder "Civilization II Multiplayer Gold Edition" you won't be able to play any scenarios other Rome or WW2. This sounds dumb but is actually necessary for the game to work properly. Next, rename the installation directory something with a very short filename I recommend "CivII MGE". In the box that appears, expand "Legacy Components" enable that and "DirectPlay" which is under Legacy Components. In the search box, type "turn windows features on or off". Next, press + X, click apps and features. When done with that thread, come back, you're not finished yet. You can't use vanilla Civ II discs for the installation, although you will see such a disc may come in handy later on.įirst, follow the instructions in this thread, leaving out the no-CD patch which doesn't work on 64-bit systems. You will need an original Civilization II disc (MGE or Chronicles) for this method to work. This method works for me as of under the following conditions:

CIVILIZATION II MULTIPLAYER GOLD EDITION DOWNLOAD HOW TO

There's lots of great guides here about how to get Civ II running under various modern operating systems but this information is spread over numerous different threads after struggling greatly with this myself I thought it might be helpful to consolidate all the information regarding how to get Civilization II MGE running properly under Windows 10 in one place.