No Sound" and If this alone fails to work, choose the same number one for each (numbered) option. This Is only a personal view and I may be completely wrong, but please, If you're having problems playing this game online, first try loading with "1. Critics have, in various interpretations, tried to make Pentheus and Dionysus into symbols for the two forces in any one of. Options 2 - 6 are all obsolete sound hardware & drivers, so I'm pretty sure that our PC or other hardware gets 'locked up' because they're searching for these non-existent drivers. Many of the themes examined in this study guide will involve opposing forces: rationality versus irrationality, the Greek versus the foreign, skepticism versus piety, civilization versus savagery or nature, and so on. For what It's worth, I think It's the sound options which are causing the problem. Whenever the opening options give you a numbered choice, choose No.1.that's all there Is to It! It means, of course, that you have to play without sounds but, on a game of this type, It really makes no difference! (I normally listen to my fave music through my headphones when playing these kind of games, anyway, as I'm sure most retro-gamers do!). The solution will appear a bit strange, I can understand that - but It solves the problem! Trust this old git! The screen showed C:\CIV, and It wouldn't accept any input, so I was left with a useless DOS screen. For me, the game kept reverting to a DOS screen before It was fully loaded. I had problems at first and If you are having them too, this may help. Works perfectly well when I play online through my PC.