Have you had any luck getting Colonization to run under Windows XP?

I bought Colonization back in the day when I was using windows 3.1; I purchased a second edition for Windows 95, and online patches helped me to get that version running under Windows 2000. Having said that, Windows XP has created a whole new problem. After 20 minutes of gameplay, my computer with spontaneously shut down.

Is there an XP patch out there to alleviate this problem.

thanks

Some luck I have a patch for colonization that I will need to find I think that will allow you to run colonization under WinXP. I will found out what I can about this and will post it here. For the time being there is one other option there is a verison of colonization for DOS that does run under WinXP.

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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

beautiful.
I found very little info myself doing a google search.

I understand I had to look for that patch for months. , But I finally found it, I will look for it on my computers at home and see if I can find it and I'll let you know. I'm at work now and won't be home until morning but I look for it tomorrow. You may also be able to find the DOS verison for free It so old it may be available as freeware.

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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

Ok hold on a sec I may have it here. I think this is it. Try it and let me know if it works. Patch

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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

If this doesn't work for XP try to set the compatibility in XP to Win95 or 98.

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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

I believe I tried this patch earlier to no avail.
btw. I never heard of setting my compatibility to Win95 or Win98.
Do you have a link to that process?

OK if you have already tried that patch. Try this; with the patch installed find the exe for the game it can be the one on the desktop that will be fine or the one in the start under programs. Right click on it and go to properties, You should then see a tab that says compatibility click on it. Then you will see a drop down menu that will have windows 95, windows 98/me or something close to that in it, then under that menu you will see some check boxes, check the one that says disable themes. There your done Windows XP will try and fool the program into think that it's running on Windows 95 and with the patch installed it should work if not let me know and this week I will try and get it running no my PC.

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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

Thanks for the advice; I'm testing it now.
I'll keep you posted if the changes take.

Ok thanks I hope it works. Let me know either way if it doesn't I will reinstall it on my system and see how I got it to work.

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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.