Alright, so i bought Civ 4 gold edition. installed it, it works fine. but recently i got BtS. and when i tried installing it on my computor i get a

"The patch failed to install!Aborting installation."

error

so, i uninstalled gold, and then reinstalled it, and tried installing BtS again, i get the same error.

please tell me i can fix this

Are they from different sources such as local retailer and direct download? The patches apparently differ depending on the originals' sources.
BTS tries to patch your vanilla and maybe warlords too (it's been a while). Have you attempted the BTS install with vanilla and warlords fully patched?

no, both are store bought.


and i thought that gold came with all the patches.

i dunt know if it matters but, i can get online with warlords and vanilla without having to download anything which i think means that its fully patched, if not where can i get the patches?

Alright so i tried manually installing the patch, and apprently it doesnt recongnize that i have civ 4

any idea what can i do?

Gold version has the latest patches

then what do i do?

Ugh, i still need help! i tried a clean uninstall of gold, then reinstall, it worked. but then when itried installing bts, i got the same error!what should i do?!?

I am having this same problem.

I am re-installing Civ IV onto a computer that used to run it.

I installed CIV 4 (original) to the F: drive. All is okay. I skipped installing Warlords as BTS is supposed to have all of the Warlords stuff in it (right?).

When I try to install BTS, I get the same patch failed to install as mentioned above.

I didn't install any other patches or changes. I assumed the BTS disk would have everything necessary to take a vanilla, unpatched CIV 4 up to BTS in one operation.

BtS tries to install the 1.74 patch onto Vanilla. The problem is that this seems to fail sometimes when Vanilla does not have the 1.61 patch installed beforehand...

wow im suprised, ive been emailing take two, and theyve told me to try like 5 diffrent things and they still dont know.

So what am i jus screwed?

because it seems like you know more than the company oriX_XX_X

Guys I had the same problem here's what you do go to my old thread for my real I have the link on there. It's something like issue with patch...but you need to go to the 2k website and download a patch from them first and then try to instal the game. there are other patches that you try and they will say things like "can not instal this version of patch" just keep going till you find the right one or find my old post :D

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downlo...p?do=file&id=3

This thread fixed it for me in case anyone else has the same problem.

Couldnt connect to the link X_X

whats the thread name so i can look fer it?

Uhhmnmm I dunno I found it going thru this site on one of the stickys but I dunno which one. Hang on lemme investigate.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=3
ta da :D Dunno why the newest version of patch doesn' work but this one does> I don't think I'll bother with doing anotherone cause I'd hate to loose the ability to play the game

nopppe, that doesnt worK!!!!!!!!!

well fudge that's all I got that is waht workled for me... No clue now dude. Call corporate.

what did you do until now? Maybe there is some more I could think of but I'd firs like to know what you already tried.

Heres all of the thigns they said to do

"Can you try installing Beyond the Sword while the system is booted into safe-mode with networking? This will rule out any program conflictions within the computer itself."

"Please could you go into Civ IV, and have a look in the options, There will be an "About this Build""

after i showed

"The game is fully patched. Please try uninstalling civiv and then installing them both straight after each other"

Gee, not like i hadnt tried that before

"
Can you try the following:

Msconfig.

- Click on the start menu
- Click on run
- Type in the following MSCONFIG
- Click on the startup tab
- Deselect all the tick boxes
- Click on apply and then close
- Restart your computer
- When your computer starts up again, please ignore any messages from msconfig (do not close these)
- Try installing the game"

why would manually installing work if the computer automatically installing it doesn't? I have this same problem.