When you run the Beyond Earth program in Windows 95, you may receive the following error message: The program fails to run even though you have the video compression driver installed in the computer.

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Just as in Windows version 3.1, the Beyond Earth program requires that the CVID driver is installed to run properly in Windows 95. codecs are installed differently in Windows 95.

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To make the program run properly, use any text editor, such as Notepad, to add the following line to the [Drivers] section of the System.ini file:

   vidc.cvid=iccvid.drv
				

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