I recently bought BTS and have had nothing but headaches with it. I initially had python errors that I fixed after reading some of the posts on here but now I get the same 4 XML errors. I dont know how to fix them. Can anyone help? I tried downloading a few XML patches off microsoft that someone suggested but to no avail. Is BTS just riddled with bugs? I have been reading several of the postings and it seems that alot of people are having issues with it.

please open
documents and settings\<username>\my games\beyond the sword\civilizationIV.ini and set all items with log in their name to 1 and set hydepythonexceptions to 0
then start a game, after all those errors come up close the game any way possible and post the contents of
documents and settings\<username>\my games\beyond the sword\logs
as a zip file

Hey Ori, I appreciate the help. I got the exact same error messages with your suggestion. Ih ave posted the zip file.

have you tried patching to 3.13? your log says no...

[149874.734] VERSION: Build: Sat Jun 23 08:49:44 2007
[149874.734] VERSION: 3.0.0.86 (74099)

I would think that it should work as soon as you load it up. I have never have had issues with loading games. This is the first and it is extremely frustrating. I am downloading hte patch but I dont think that it is going to work.

I have the same exact problem too. I have the patch as well and it still doesn't work. I too have only had problems with this game. I bought it at the beginning of December and have not played it yet because of the problems I have encountered!

I too have a ton of errors when the game is loading.
At ori's suggestion, I set hidepythonexceptions to 0 (misspelled in ori's post) and all the log-related files to 1. My files were actually located in My Documents\My Games\Beyond the Sword


My Log files are attached.

BTW: I held the Enter key down, and the system flashed through these errors and the game eventually started. It's late and I didn't actually try to run a game to see what would happen, but it did play the intro and the initial menus came up. I'll give it a whirl after I get some sleep. Hopefully someone can make some sense of these errors.

weirdly the log itself does not contain any unexpected error messages :confused:

does it play now after you started it once? it did cache quite a lot of stuff so it might not go through the same stuff again - but it is patched correctly at least...

No. I just tried running a scenario. It allowed me to set everything up then crashed. BTW: I did a fresh install (hadn't had it before) saw the errors and installed patch 3.13. No difference after the patch.

The first error I see is:
Failed loading XML file xml\BasicInfos/CIV4UnitCombatInfos.xml

The second:
Allocating zero or less memory in CvXMLLoadUtility::SetVariableList TagPair Current XML file is: xml\Units/CIV4PromotionInfos.xml

I stopped noting them at this point.

I'll try an uninstall/reinstall. Maybe I've got a bad CD or a quirk o' fate. If nothing else, it'll be interesting to see if it dies in the same place.

The uninstall/reinstall worked swimmingly. All now works fine.

One thing that I did do differently, was at the point where disc 2 is finished and one gets the message to reinsert disc 1. Once disc 1 is reinserted, autoplay puts up the Civ IV flag page asking if one wants to play or exit. Since the install window was still open, this time I chose the "exit" option, clicked the 'finish' button on the install window, then opened the game. That may or may not have had any effect; just thought I'd mention it.

I bought Civ IV and BtS at the same time a few weeks ago. When I loaded up Civ 4 I had no problems at all. I did not patch to the current patch, but after a few hours of play it started crashing after several turns.

Then I loaded up BtS and had no problems, but it also started crashing after several hours. So I did an uninstall/reinstall and uploaded the patches.

Now I cannot even load either game. Once I put in discs 1 I get...

Loading Error
Caught unhandled exception creating XML parser object Current XML is:

I uninstalled again and reinstalled and I am getting the same message with CiV 4 and BtS.

Now I have two problems. First getting the game to actually play and then if it does it crashing after every few turns.

Any suggestions? This is frustrating as hell.