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First post, by Larrynho

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Hi!

Im new into dosbox emulation...I'm trying to run Civilization 2 on a Windows ME installation.

When I run Civ2.exe it pops an error:
CANNOT FIND DPLAYX.DLL

I think that comes from not having installed directX. I dont know the proper DXversion...I've tried installing Dx9.0c ...wich pops
CANNOT FIND MSVCRT.dll

I think that comes from Visual C++ google tellsme toinstall Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86)but it gives this error:
Win32s- Error
Invalid Fotmat
Unexpected error:21.

And here I'm stuck...any help on how to procced is much appreciated 😁

Reply 1 of 1, by DosFreak

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DOSBox doesn't support Windows 9x as a guest.

Use an emulator or VM that does. pcem,vpc,virtualbox,vmware,etc

Use an original install of Windows ME
Use an original install of CIV2
CIV 2 does not use DX9 or C++ 2005.

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