Cant get the game started... Help

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I am afraid that I cannot get the game to run at all. The furthest I have got is the initial screen that says Start New Civilization. I can click on none of the options and cannot get out of the screen without rebooting.
I have only managed to get this far by removing all .BIK and .WAV files from the install. It would crash on the first introduction bit with these.

I have a Medion PIII 733 with 256MB RAM
NVIDA TNT(2) video card with 32 mb RAM
Windows ME
There is a sound card but my daughter destroyed the speakers so I don't use sound.
Direct X v9
1.5 gig spare on the C drive after install

Any help appreciated
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I couldn't run the game either, think it was down to my graphics card. I actually reinstalled the OS, and didn't install DirectX9 at all. The game now runs fine.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Here is a debug listing.
Help please anyone...

Debug Message: Shell initialization complete
Debug Message: ***** Initializing Game *****
Debug Message: Timer Frequency is 0 1234dc
Debug Message: Added fonts: VerdanaWhite11 VerdanaWhite12B VerdanaYellow11 VerdanaLtBlue11 VerdanaGreen11
Debug Message: Added fonts: VerdanaRed11 VerdanaRed12 VerdanaYellow12 VerdanaOrange12 VerdanaLtBlue12
Debug Message: Added fonts: VerdanaDkBlue12 VerdanaLtBlue12B Verdana00Race11 Verdana01Race11 Verdana02Race11
Debug Message: Added fonts: Verdana03Race11 Verdana04Race11 Verdana05Race11 Verdana00Race12B Verdana01Race12B
Debug Message: Added fonts: Verdana02Race12B Verdana03Race12B Verdana04Race12B Verdana05Race12B VerdanaOrange12B
Debug Message: Added fonts: font2 font1 Comic10 Comic12 Comic12B
Debug Message: Added fonts: Comic14 Comic14B Comic16 Comic16B Comic18
Debug Message: Added fonts: Comic18B Celtic14 Celtic12 Celtic10 Basker14
Debug Message: Added fonts: Basker16 BabylonBlue11B BabylonBlue11 BabylonBlue10B ArialGreenB10
Debug Message: Added fonts: ArialYellowB12 ArialLtBlueB12 ArialDkBlueB12 ArialGreenB12 ArialRedB12
Debug Message: Added fonts: ArialWhite12B ArialWhite14 ArialWhite16 ArialOrange12B ArialLtBlue12B
Debug Message: Added fonts: ArialLtBlue14 ArialGreen14 ArialRed14 ArialYellow14 ArialGreen16
Debug Message: Added fonts: ArialYellow16 Arial02Race16 Arial13B Arial16B2 Arial10
Debug Message: Added fonts: Arial12 Arial12B Arial14 Arial14B Arial16
Debug Message: Added fonts: Arial16B Arial18 Arial18B GaraWGold11B GaraBW14B
Debug Message: Added fonts: GaraW11B
Debug Message: Initializing sound card.
*DEBUG ERROR: *** Error creating DirectSound object ***
Debug Message: No Music\*.mp3 files in current directory.
Debug Message: No Event Music\*.mp3 files in current directory.
Debug Message: Game Initialization completed.
Debug Message: Creating cutscene window.
Debug Message: Creating soundtrack handler.
Debug Message: Creating movie handler.
Debug Message: Initialize Game Options.
Debug Message: Create setup screens.
Debug Message: MWinEditFields::Create - Unable to find sprite sizing graphic for NameInputBG
Debug Message: Creating opening menu.
Debug Message: Creating player setup screen.
Debug Message: Creating race setup screen.
Debug Message: Initialize Tilemaps
Debug Message: Set mouse.
Debug Message: Set update timer.
Debug Message: Begin playing intro movie.
Debug Message: WM_CLOSE message received.
Debug Message: GameUninitialize start
Debug Message: GameUninitialize end
Debug Message: Destroying Window.
Debug Message: Main Shell terminating normally
Debug Message: MemMan: Unable to find pointer in GetBlockInfo. Memory system: Palette
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MEMMAN.CPP at line 581.
Debug Message: MemMan: Unable to find pointer in GetBlockInfo. Memory system: Palette
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MEMMAN.CPP at line 581.


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