original civ 3 was working fine. just purchased crusader. steam downloaded content. hangs in loading screen (after hitting green play button).
checked some posts. uninstalled game about 5 times now. validated game (settings [next to green play button]->validate files) always says there is "1 file fail to validate and will be reacquired", which nevert seems to happen. never happens. cleared steam cache according to another post. no effect. turned off antivirus. no effect. moved from installing on e: drive (with all my other games) to c: drive. no effect. removed game and every freaking instance of every gal civ 3 file I could find anywhere. no effect after rinsing and repeating a few more times. Come on Stardock, this should not be so hard. Oh yes, reinstalled vs c++ runtime. no effect. Just updated my video driver 2 weeks ago. I seriously doubt that's it.
*sigh*
please advise.
Take a look at your shortcuts! I encontured the same problem after the update and the reason is really stupid:
Initial Crusade starts the GC3Crusade.exe and with this update you have to lunch the GalCiv3.exe - if you still lunch the GC3Crusade.exe your game hangs...
So what is the problem? -> Stardock - is there any Quality Management at your company? If not call my number - you will get special price
Buy yourself a Christmas cookie/drink/whatever-your-poison-is and put it on Stardock's tab BigFish. You were correct.
(Edit: removed post, as I'm playing GC3 but without Crusade expansion.)
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