Kahenraz wrote on 2025-05-25, 13:34:

Civilization 2 works, but needs Intel codecs to be installed. Does that count as modification? The game is Intel video codecs that used to be included in Windows, but were removed for Windows XP and later due to Microsoft's license expiring. Civilization 3 works out of the box. I think Civilization 1 (for Windows 3.1) also works out of the box.

If the Intel codecs is something removed for Windows (as you mentioned) then no it isn't a modification.

Kahenraz wrote on 2025-05-25, 13:34:

Civilization 2 works, but needs Intel codecs to be installed. Does that count as modification? The game uses Intel video codecs that used to be included in Windows, but were removed for Windows XP and later due to Microsoft's license expiring. Civilization 3 works out of the box. I think Civilization 1 (for Windows 3.1) also works out of the box.

Were those the Intel Indeo codecs? Weren't they removed from later Windows versions due to a discovered vulnerability in those old and unmaintained codecs? Or maybe I'm confusing codecs here?

digger wrote on 2025-05-26, 10:24:

Kahenraz wrote on 2025-05-25, 13:34:

Civilization 2 works, but needs Intel codecs to be installed. Does that count as modification? The game uses Intel video codecs that used to be included in Windows, but were removed for Windows XP and later due to Microsoft's license expiring. Civilization 3 works out of the box. I think Civilization 1 (for Windows 3.1) also works out of the box.

Were those the Intel Indeo codecs? Weren't they removed from later Windows versions due to a discovered vulnerability in those old and unmaintained codecs? Or maybe I'm confusing codecs here?

If it was Indeo, it wasn't removed but rather disabled. I have a link in the first post to enable it