Will Civilization 4 play on the new Vista operating system and if not what do you need

I can for sure tell it did not work for me. My HP laptop with Vista was two days old, but collapsed completely and was dead for a long time. I thought everything was over, but one technician took out the battery and started the computer. It turned out that the battery was completely dead. Before I tried Civ it was 100%. Anybody who can tell me why Vista gave this respons?




New info (as of 8-21-07): I bought a Sony Vaio laptop with vista 32 bit. After tons of struggling and reading online forums and FAQs, I finally decided to go to Microsoft's website and give them a piece of my mind. While there, I discovered another way to install games from XP days. You have to let the machine do the work for you instead of trying to be smart and configuring everything manually. Go to Start, Control Panel, Programs, and "Use and older program with this version of Windows." It'll come up with a program compatibility screen and take you through all the steps you can do manually (i.e. set the compatibility mode, run as administrator, etc.). It worked. No clue why, it just did. So do that.
there are ways to get the game to run on Windows Vista. I called take2 support and this was their response. It worked for me and it is easy. Take 2: Please try the following To run the game in Windows NT Compatability mode. - right click on the shortcut for the game
- left click on properties
- click on the Compatability tab
- tick the box called "Run this program in compatability mode for"
- select Windows NT
- click on apply
- click on ok Run the game again