Hi there,

I bought the game to play it on Win7 without any problems. So it works. But does anyone know which files are responsible for the text in the game? I also own the german version of the game (which I can't start) and just wanted to replace the english files with the german ones.

Thank you, tried that.

Unfortunately, the results are not really satisfying.
Some txt-files can be swapped, like the game.txt, but others, like the names.txt, cause a crash right after the intro. Changing some of the files means the game is part english, part german. I really don't know why the game is crashing, when I change specific files, as they really look similar except for the written text.

The following files contain the in-game texts. Most of it should be modifiable
labels.txt
game.txt
woodcut.txt
pedia.txt
menu.txt

colony.txt contains lists of default colony names for each country

Hi. Yeah, that's right, they contain much text.

But the labels.txt also causes a crash, when I change the german with the original version. I can't find the reason why.

I wanted to attach my txt-file, but I can't (it says wrong file format). *.rar also doesn't work. -.-

I would advise against playing this game in any translated versions if you can avoid it. I cannot speak for the German translation, but I know the French translation causes this game to crash or freeze. The game has troubles handling diacritic marks and when we were kids, my cousin and I lost plenty of games and progress because the game randomly froze or crashed during the opponent's turn or when European powers parleyed with us.

I don't remember where I heard that bit about the diacritic marks but I know that when I heard about it ten or so years ago, I edited every in-game text file and replaced every character with diacritic marks with ordinary letters, and I don't recall the game freezing or crashing ever since. And if I didn't believe my edited French translation was more stable than the original English version when I keep hearing about these issues as I read Colonization Let's Plays, I would have moved to the original version as soon as possible.

Since I couldn't find any solution to the problem that the game crashes right after the intro, when I change specific files, I decided to play it in english. It's fine for me.
I'll mark the thread as "answered", because mistermumbles already answered it and it should theoretically work.

Thanks everyone.

Really addicting game. :)