The modbuddy complains that "Can't find one or more components. Please reinstall the application.". What does it mean and how can I fix it?

Same issue, even ran exe directly.

I'm getting "Invalid license data. Reinstall is required." instead.

Do you own Civ V Kobata?

Of course, how else would I have downloaded the mod tools so fast?

I'm getting the same error, "Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the application"

Win7 x64

Win7 x64

Same here. But isn't Civ V made to run on Win7 x64?

Same error here too, also win7 64bit.

Wait do we need to have visual studio 2010 installed?

Also aww poor Civ 5 programmers, always being pissed off by Microsoft:

Sid meier's civilization v sdk\ModBuddy\ModBuddy.pkgundef
//NOTE: UNCOMMENTED LINES CANNOT HAVE COMMENTS IN THEM >_< STUPID MICROSOFT

According to the wiki:

ModBuddy is built off of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Isolated Shell

According to MS Visual Studio 2010 Isolated Shell (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff636764.aspx):

The isolated Shell redistributable package includes the .NET Framework 4 and the components of the Visual Studio SDK.


I'm taking stabs in the dark, but It appears I did not have .Net 4 Framework installed... doing so now. also, I install the x86 Visual Studio 2010 Redistributable which remove this error:

This application has failed to start because MSVCR100.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

Whaaa? Did you fix it?

I'm running win7x64 and ModBuddy is the only mod tool that does run for me :mad:

I had VS2010 installed already.

Hmm, if I uninstall the VS Integrated shell it switches my error to the "Can't find components" one from the invalid license data.

So it seems like their download isn't including everything they actually need to install.

I got mod budy to work by installing the VS isolated shell. The free download is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=DFBA7AC4-5366-456E-ABD6-0E3E6BA83B7C&amp;displaylang=en

You mean "Isolated" :) "Integrated" was the one that was causing "Invalid License data." error for me. (You linked to the right one though.)

Fixed! I'm writing lesson plans where i have to integrate other subjects. Got a little mixed up there ;) I should check to make sure I don't have isolates lessons....

running windows 7 x64 installed VS2010 works great it is really nice

I fixed it using the above iunstructions and...

Oh. My. God. WOW!!:wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :woohoo:

I'm now downloading the Isolated Shell, but just to confirm: having VS2010 Express is no good, right? You still need to install the shell redistributable from MS?

Yes, you need either VS2010 Shell (Isolated) or a full version (Professional+) of VS2010 installed. Express doesn't register itself for that.

What do I do here? I want to make sure I don't mess it up.

http://www.magogclan.com/updatepath.png

Point the first to your Sid Meier's Civilization V directory.

Point the second to My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization V . It'll start you off in your user profile's Documents directory, unless something goes wrong, but that's where you need to start looking.

Happy modding! Oh, and you won't get anywhere if you don't break something at least once. :p

Point the first to your Sid Meier's Civilization V directory.

Point the second to My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization V . It'll start you off in your user profile's Documents directory, unless something goes wrong, but that's where you need to start looking.

Happy modding! Oh, and you won't get anywhere if you don't break something at least once. :p

So I don't post anything to Steam such as steam://rungameid/8930?

Alright, let me look for what you mentioned above.

I got mod budy to work by installing the VS isolated shell. The free download is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=DFBA7AC4-5366-456E-ABD6-0E3E6BA83B7C&amp;displaylang=en

This did it for me. However, Modbuddy asks for the path to Civ V and duh... where is it? I get the same screen as Kruelgor. Steam install here.

Thanks for pointing out the "fix", worked here (installing Isolated Shell).

Where's Steam installed? Start from there, Steam\Steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V

If it's in the Program Files directory, start there. If there's a (x86) appended to the Program Files directory, search there. If it's somewhere else, look there.

Just tell ModBuddy where your game's files are (i.e. where you installed it). There's really nothing more to it. Don't overthink this. ;)

I think the path for me is going to be:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\sid meier's civilization v\CivilizationV_DX11.exe

or for DirectX9

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\sid meier's civilization v\CivilizationV.exe

I think the path for me is going to be: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\sid meier's civilization v
That's it. :thumbsup:

Yay! C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\sid meier's civilization v\ did the trick! Now to figure out how to use it. Good luck modders!

Yay! C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\sid meier's civilization v\ did the trick! Now to figure out how to use it. Good luck modders!


So exclude the .exe file?...just the folder path?

ok, I'll try it.

Getting a nasty error when creating a new mod (quoted as I posted in 2K Greg's thread)
I can't create a new mod, I choose the name, then type the details (author, special thanks, desc. I fill them all), and clicking Ok on that it says "The project file could not be loaded. An error ocurred while parsing Entity Name. Line 12, position 11 (..)" then the (..) stands for the full path to the .civ5proj it was trying to create.

Anybody has any idea what might be causing it?
Probably my eagerness to mod combined with Murphy's Law.

Cool, I like the Wiki

Solved! The problem was I was using a '&' in my description.

I got mod budy to work by installing the VS isolated shell. The free download is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=DFBA7AC4-5366-456E-ABD6-0E3E6BA83B7C&amp;displaylang=enI just installed this but I'm still getting "Can't find one or more components. Please reinstall the application." :sad:

EDIT: Okay, it's working. I don't know why, if I use the launcher, it gives me the above but when I enter using the exe in its directory, it starts up fine.

Cool, I like the Wiki

Me too, as all the modding environment ideas they had so far it was a great one :) reading it from head to toe right now, lacks a bit more depth but I think this will come with the time right.

I can't get it to work, reinstalled the SDk and the shell twice now, still getting the missing components error, regardsless if I use the launcher or start it directly. All the parts that the shell is supposed to install look ok, it just won't work at all. Too bad that they we're to lazy to provide a real error message and not that useless pop-up :(

KasimirQ:

Try to install these:

- .Net 4 Framework (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9cfb2d51-5ff4-4491-b0e5-b386f32c0992&displaylang=en)
- Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7b7a05e-6de6-4d3a-a423-37bf0912db84&displaylang=en)

KasimirQ:

Try to install these:

- .Net 4 Framework (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9cfb2d51-5ff4-4491-b0e5-b386f32c0992&displaylang=en)
- Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7b7a05e-6de6-4d3a-a423-37bf0912db84&displaylang=en)

I uninstalled every c++ and .net runtime now and will see what happens if i only install the shell with all dependencies, realyl wish there was a way to find out WHAT components are missing. I never got the erro that the shell is missing btw.

Ok, didn't do anything, but I found something. If I launch the denenv.exe that should be the main part of the Shell i get "Invalid licence", something a lot of people have with Visual Studio. For some reason Windows has a problem with a VS 2010 licence, even though I never had that installed on the system. The workaround that I found didn't really help me, so I still can' t use ModBuddy :(

I uninstalled every c++ and .net runtime now and will see what happens if i only install the shell with all dependencies, realyl wish there was a way to find out WHAT components are missing. I never got the erro that the shell is missing btw.

Ok, didn't do anything, but I found something. If I launch the denenv.exe that should be the main part of the Shell i get "Invalid licence", something a lot of people have with Visual Studio. For some reason Windows has a problem with a VS 2010 licence, even though I never had that installed on the system. The workaround that I found didn't really help me, so I still can' t use ModBuddy :(


I have the same exact issue. Multiple reinstalls of the SDK and Microsoft package and it continues to complain about being unable to find components. Maybe because I have other Visual Studio products installed?