Hiya,
Dunno if you saw Dab's post on the subject, but the prob with him was that the full install still left some files to be run from the CD. Mebbe Civ4 is looking for summat of this nature?

-Leezer-

Not true since you can take out the CD in the middle of the game and it works. I figured out whats wrong, now all i need is a hex editor that doesnt crash when I load a 700MB file :P

so nobody know how to make a maxi image ?
damn :(

lol,i think we have drifted 17 posts off topic :P

can somebody tell me how to create a maxi image and compress it??

A lame question: how to be use WINDOWS COMPRESSION?
When I has mouse right-click I can select COMPRESS AND E-MAIL or
COMPRESS TO RAR or a part of SEND..COMPRESSED...
And in PROPERTIES also nothing about Compression.

How about advanced in general properties?

Hmmmmmm...
 

I might be completely missing your point, but I already have "compress contents to save disk space" on all my drives, and when I check individual files, it's all checked off, so what am I doing wrong? Are there any steps I'm missing? Is there any way anyone can give us who are lost a step by step? Any help would be greatly appreciated :confused:

How and where is Windows Compression. plz a step by step tut.

@ShizoFraen
Right click the particular file you want to compress,
Choose 'Properties' from the menu.
Then click the 'Advanced' button
Then tick 'Compress contents to save disc space'
Click 'OK'
Then 'Apply'

Grumpy, maybe I'm missing something, but nothing happens when I do that... "Size on disk" only goes down by about 15 megs... still got a huge mdf file here :/

Compressiion rate always depends on the stuff you want to compress, images often cant be compressed by 50%, so the megs you might save can be only around 15... :confused:
btw, Windows just compresses if the file is used very rare, if its frequently used, Windose wont compress it as it would take too much time to decompress everytime you use it again

Ok, so here's my question again: How do you make a Maxi MINI image, like the ones on GCW, that are a few hundred kb at most, yet can be used in place of an original image to play a game without the original CD? Please try to be as detailed as possible :)

This is what i do to make a maxi-image :

I open a mdf file with Winhex,and i click on edit/fill the file,make sure there is 00 in the box and click on OK button.Wait during operation and save the file.

BUT when i do that,when i mount the image,Windows say me that the disc is unreadable ! :eek:

I've missed something ?

I want to know thsi too, there must be a trick or some Data that HAS to be on DIsc, maybe if you let the first 150KB untouched?