Sid Meier's Gettysburg! 1997: Sid Meier's Antietam! 1999: General information. Official developer site. Mod/patch database for the Sid Meier's Civil War series. Hi Bigbob24, The compatibility information of the game Sid Meier's GETTYSBURG is currently not available in the Windows 7 compatibility center.

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Sid Meier's Gettysburg! Manages to do what many similar takes on the great conflict have failed to do - take the events of the battle and present them with epic grandeur yet keep them simple to play without getting bogged down with too many rules. The actual gameplay is set in semi-real time rather than strictly turn-based.

This makes the individual games much shorter since units can be given orders while the player concentrates on more pressing matters and situations elsewhere on the battlefield. The forces are organized into the type of units of the day, including infantry, cavalry and artillery, and appear on the map as regiments. Regiments are grouped together as brigades and are led by a brigade commander. After a couple of quick games, it becomes quite apparent why a chain of command is needed. To aid the player, as overall leader of the battle or engagement, commander units oversee their own forces providing support and helping keep up morale. In addition to controlling and ordering individual units, the player can give an order to a commander unit who in turn directs his forces.

Like the real battle, some commanders are obviously better than others, and shouldn't be expected to take too much initiative. Players should also make sure to keep the commanders near their own regiments, as a commander without men to lead quickly becomes just another soldier on horseback getting in the way. Unlike a turn-based game, the player needs to make some quick decisions and has to react. Orders are given, units move and then it's on to the next situation. By zooming in and out of the map, players can monitor small engagements between brigades or get a whole view of the battlefield and determine where to move forces. It must be noted, however, that only enemy units in a clear line of sight are visible, so players shouldn't rely too much on the full map except as to use it as guide to their own forces ('Hey, I don't see any Yankees, I must have won!' These two elements, the quick decisions and the fact that the opponent's forces may be hidden, make Sid Meier's Gettysburg!

Quite challenging. Players don't have time to seriously think about the direction of each unit, and that makes the game quicker and in many ways easier to play while also making it more realistic.

After all, battles like Gettysburg are won and lost in split-second decisions. The advances in this game are that it should make war gaming accessible to those who don't have the understanding or patience for movement points, advancing fire, line of sight and all the other things that make turned-based games more realistic than the average real-time strategy game. The bottom line is that Sid Meier's Gettysburg! Is simple, it looks great and it's fun!

Graphics: One of the best overhead views of a battlefield on the computer screen. Sound: Excellent sound effects. Enjoyment: Enjoyable and easy but fairly realistic.

Replay Value: There's no reason not to play it over and over. People who downloaded Sid Meier's Gettysburg! Have also downloaded:, ©2018 San Pedro Software Inc. Contact:, done in 0.002 seconds.

Sid Meier's Gettysburg! On Windows XP (Service Pack 2)/DirectX 9.0c June 16th, 2005 Rationale: The game Sid Meier's Gettysburg! Was originally a Win9x game by Firaxis Games which requires some modifications to its default installation to properly function outside of its original native Windows 9x environment. This document addresses the steps necessary to make this Win9x-era game fully functional on the now current Windows workstation standard, Windows XP (Pro), Service Pack 2, which incorporates DirectX 9.0c as standard. The base-line requirements for Sid Meier's Gettysburg!: Code: OS: Win95 Processor: 60mHz Pentium (minimum) RAM: 16MB (minimum) Hard Disk: 70MB free CD-ROM: 2X speed (minimum) DirectX: Version 5.0 (or above) Video card: Resolution of 800x600 at 8-bit color (256 color) Sound Card: DirectX 5.0 compliant Mouse: 2-button Problems under WinXP(SP2): The primary problem with attempting to play Sid Meier's Gettysburg! On Windows XP(SP2) is that the video clips which provide the explanatory story narrative no longer display, also some menu/display anomalies still occur even after the application of the Firaxis Windows 2000/XP Update. Finally, it appears that with the release of both the Gettysburg!

V3 Patch and the Gettysburg! Windows 2000/XP Update that some confusion exists as to the load order and ultimately what EXE and DLL files should be present in the Gettysburg!

Sub-directory for proper operation. Some of the problems listed below have been addressed by Firaxis Games in a series of issued patches to correct problems with the game functionality and operating system support. However, some additional steps are still needed to correct issues created by Firaxis and changes in the Microsoft Windows environment of Windows XP (SP2). The problems in executing 'Sid Meier's Gettysburg!'

On today's hardware and operating systems can be delineated in four areas: Hard-coded Win9x programming practices; the improper inclusion of Windows 9x-era system level Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL) files in the application installation sub-directory; the 'inadvertent' changes by Microsoft in CODEC support for the now deprecated 'Microsoft Video for Windows' API; the ever increasing speed of current/future x86 processors and its effect on critical timing sensitive game routines. 1.) Resolution: Hard-coded Win9x programming practices Firaxis corrected the Win9x hard-coding in Gettysburg! With the release of its Windows 2000/XP Update.

Firaxis continues to host a series of patches for 'Sid Meier's Gettysburg!' At its own web-site, the The necessary patches for 'Sid Meier's Gettysburg!' Are as follows: Code: Date Title Size - Gettysburg! V3 Patch 471.76 kB Gettysburg! Windows 2000/XP Update 5.96 MB Each of the above files contains file necessary to update the Gettysburg! Executable LEE.EXE, SOUND.DLL and some other supporting files.

Here is what each patch contains: Code: The Gettysburg! V3 Patch: (SMGPATCH3.EXE) 1.) LEE.EXE 783,360 bytes 1998/03/13 2.) SOUND.DLL 134,656 bytes 1997/10/13 3.) LABELS.TXT 3,956 bytes 1997/12/10 4.) GETTY11.SCN 18,003 bytes 1998/01/12 The Gettysburg! Windows 2000/XP Update: (SMG2000XPCompatibilityUpdate.exe) 1.) LEE.EXE 737,280 bytes 2002/02/02 2.) SOUND.DLL 151,552 bytes 2002/04/18 3.) SMGXP2000readme.txt 2002/02/02 (1,498 bytes).) MSVFW32.DLL 129,536 bytes 1995/07/11 is deleted by the Update. So we have the following possible LEE.EXE and SOUND.DLL files from the original Gettysburg! Hello dvwjr, I've followed your instructions, but I still have a problem.

When I press F9 to go into preferences, the game crashes, with the Windows message saying that Gettysburg needs to close down. There's a lengthy error report, which includes various.dll files in it. This always happens when I hit F9. Also, during the introduction to each scenario, I can hear the voices of the commanders, but I don't see their pictures appear (as they did in the demo, for example). I think there still must be some problem with the.dll files. Do you know what the problem might be?

I've followed the instructions about updating the lee.exe and sound.dll, and I've checked that I do indeed have the versions needed. I've also deleted all of the.dll files except sound.dll and mpgetty.dll. Thanks for any help you can give me, Marek Newbie Posts: 2 Joined: 2005-1-07 @ 03:25. Hello dvwjr, I've followed your instructions, but I still have a problem.

When I press F9 to go into preferences, the game crashes, with the Windows message saying that Gettysburg needs to close down. There's a lengthy error report, which includes various.dll files in it.

This always happens when I hit F9. Also, during the introduction to each scenario, I can hear the voices of the commanders, but I don't see their pictures appear (as they did in the demo, for example). I think there still must be some problem with the.dll files. Do you know what the problem might be? I've followed the instructions about updating the lee.exe and sound.dll, and I've checked that I do indeed have the versions needed. I've also deleted all of the.dll files except sound.dll and mpgetty.dll. Thanks for any help you can give me, Marek I know this is really really old, but I had the same problem (under Vista) and was able to fix it.

So maybe I will help some poor websurfing general some day. The way I got the preferences to work was to first install Gettysburg, then install the v3 patch, then the Windows 2000/XP update. When I just installed the 2000/XP update, the game crashed upon opening preferences, but with the v3 patch installed first, it worked fine. Newbie Posts: 1 Joined: 2009-6-22 @ 22:19. Akula65 wrote:Just use the Wayback Machine to get the patches from Firaxis: Thankyou that worked. I have now downloaded the 2000&XPpatch but when starting it to apply the patch it gives an error: '1608: Unable to create InstallDriver instance' Doesn´t the XP patch like XP?

Edit: It seems it´s not enough to run the XP patch using a limited account with administrator rights. When I changed to the administrator account with full rights the patch started and installed.

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Now I get the main menu with music Newbie Posts: 41 Joined: 2005-2-11 @ 19:45. Weitergeleitete Nachricht - Betreff: FW: Missing file Datum: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:27:39 +0000 Von: Donna Milesky (Firaxis). Try this link: From: Michael.

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Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2016 1:20 PM To: 2KGBAL Admin Alerts Subject: Missing file Hello, following that link to the Firaxis webpage the files that were available there seem to be missing. I was looking for the XP patch to Sid Meier´s Gettysburg that was available on your webpage for download.

Could you perhaps redirect the page to the new location of those patches or reupload the patches and other files? Michael Newbie Posts: 41 Joined: 2005-2-11 @ 19:45. My version of Gettysburg is actually Sid Meier's Civil War Collection. I remember it ran out of the box on my IBM laptop (yes, IBM, Lenovo hasn't existed yet back then), which has Windows XP SP1. Now I installed Gettysburg!

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V3 Patch (smgpatch3.exe), Gettysburg! Windows 2000/XP Update (SMG2000nXPCompatibilityUpdate.exe), and Sid Meier's Civil War Collection Windows 2000/XP Update (SMCWC2000&XPCompatibilityUpdate.exe), all downloaded from the.

The games refuses to run when executed from 'Run Sid Meier's Civil War Collection' shortcut, but they run when executed from their own individual shortcut. Each game runs flawlessly by far, although the video intro in Antieam! And South Mountain is broken.

Man, I have forgotten how good, how exciting this game is. I hope for a HD remake; better yet, a sequel that covers the entire warfare of the rifle age. Something like SSI's Age of Rifles, but with Sid Meier's Gettysburg! Real-time game mechanics.