Posted November 27, 2012
high rated
I've been trying for about a year on and off to get this game to work, and thanks to this forum I finally fixed it. I thought I would make a post explaining my exact steps so hopefully others can quickly find this fix.
My computer is running Windows 7 64-bit Japanese Pro. I was living in Japan when I bought Windows 7, and since moving back I have worked as a part-time translator. As such, I have Japanese as my default input language and IME as my default keyboard for switching between EN and JP on the fly.
Reading another thread, I saw a Korean gamer (dailyblue) fixed his crash issue by changing the IME setting to normal English keyboard. And it worked for me too!
-Go to Control Panel
-Select Region and Language
-Keyboard and Language tab
-Select Change keyboards
-Set the default input language to English (United States) - US
-Under Installed services, have the English (United States) at the top of the list, using US under Keyboard
-**If you have the Language Bar active, double-check that it is set to EN when you are in Windows Explorer and about to launch the game
I also run in Compatibility mode for Windows XP (Service Pack 2) and have it set to run as administrator. And I use the INI fix, my Alpha Centauri.ini looks like this:
[Alpha Centauri]
Video Mode=1024
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1
DirectDraw=0
ds3d=0
eax=0
FastUnitAnim=0
SmoothUnitAnim=0
MainFontSize=16
InterludeFontSize=16
[PREFERENCES]
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1
Hopefully anyone having trouble can benefit from my experience! Happy gaming!
My computer is running Windows 7 64-bit Japanese Pro. I was living in Japan when I bought Windows 7, and since moving back I have worked as a part-time translator. As such, I have Japanese as my default input language and IME as my default keyboard for switching between EN and JP on the fly.
Reading another thread, I saw a Korean gamer (dailyblue) fixed his crash issue by changing the IME setting to normal English keyboard. And it worked for me too!
-Go to Control Panel
-Select Region and Language
-Keyboard and Language tab
-Select Change keyboards
-Set the default input language to English (United States) - US
-Under Installed services, have the English (United States) at the top of the list, using US under Keyboard
-**If you have the Language Bar active, double-check that it is set to EN when you are in Windows Explorer and about to launch the game
I also run in Compatibility mode for Windows XP (Service Pack 2) and have it set to run as administrator. And I use the INI fix, my Alpha Centauri.ini looks like this:
[Alpha Centauri]
Video Mode=1024
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1
DirectDraw=0
ds3d=0
eax=0
FastUnitAnim=0
SmoothUnitAnim=0
MainFontSize=16
InterludeFontSize=16
[PREFERENCES]
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1
Hopefully anyone having trouble can benefit from my experience! Happy gaming!