View Full Version : Cant run gotm33: eqworker.ini problem


invy
Jul 30, 2004, 05:58 AM
i've installed gotm 21,22,23,24,25 setups have latest patch civ1.29 but i can't run the gotm 33 greece because it can't load eqworker.ini (error on 37% loading).
I renamed my worker.ini file to eqworker.ini and the game worked but it always crashes when i make contact with some 'newer' civilizations like Spain. I think I miss some add-on for a game because i cant contact civilizations which came with gotm's 21-25.
Help please, thx.

invy
Jul 30, 2004, 06:18 AM
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=91186
Forgot to mention, I downloaded files from this link (thats gotm 21-25)

AlanH
Jul 30, 2004, 07:00 AM
My guess is you've installed the add-ons into the wrong directory. Make sure that the directory you are installing all the add-ons into is the one that contains the executable that runs when you click the Civ3 shortcut. You can check the path for this executable by looking at the properties for the shortcut.

invy
Jul 30, 2004, 08:49 AM
My guess is you've installed the add-ons into the wrong directory. Make sure that the directory you are installing all the add-ons into is the one that contains the executable that runs when you click the Civ3 shortcut. You can check the path for this executable by looking at the properties for the shortcut.
i checked the path and installed everything again, same problem with eqworker :/
i dont think i installed it in wrong folder, problem is somewhere else

AlanH
Jul 30, 2004, 08:57 AM
Please can you look in your Civilization III\Art\units\ folder and see if there's a folder called eqWorker in there? If so then it should contain a file called eqWorker.ini. If not then the installation of the first add-on has failed or is in the wrong place.

PS Are you sure you installed the FULL gotm21 installation and not just the gotm21 add-on? eqWorker was actually first added in gotm17, so if you only installed the gotm21 extras you will be missing the previous bits.

invy
Jul 30, 2004, 04:18 PM
Please can you look in your Civilization III\Art\units\ folder and see if there's a folder called eqWorker in there? If so then it should contain a file called eqWorker.ini. If not then the installation of the first add-on has failed or is in the wrong place.

PS Are you sure you installed the FULL gotm21 installation and not just the gotm21 add-on? eqWorker was actually first added in gotm17, so if you only installed the gotm21 extras you will be missing the previous bits.

I checked and I have full gotm21 installed and i still don't have eqworker folder in units folder, it is in some other add-on? Are you sure that is gotm21full?. I'm pretty sure i didn't install it in wrong folder.
I went here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=71788
and looked files at gotm17, there is Squid and Spartan Hoplite units but no eqworker (what is it anyway?). I'll go through other files and try to find eqworker in the link above.
If someone knows how i can install this eqworker please post a link.

AlanH
Jul 30, 2004, 04:23 PM
An eqWorker is a Worker modified so that it can't be sold, I think.

If the GOTM21 Full installer is not putting it into your installation then it must be putting it somewhere else. Have you tried using a Search to see if it's been put somewhere else on your hard drive?

eqWorker is just one symptom. There's no point in fixing the symptom, you have to find out why it didn't work because other items will not have worked either.

[EDIT] I donloaded the full gotm21 installer and installed it to an arbitrary folder on my crummy PC. (I don't have Civ for Windows). Because the folder I pointed it at didn't have \Art\units\ folder it created it, and then it put the following items in it:

invy
Jul 30, 2004, 04:46 PM
An eqWorker is a Worker modified so that it can't be sold, I think.

If the GOTM21 Full installer is not putting it into your installation then it must be putting it somewhere else. Have you tried using a Search to see if it's been put somewhere else on your hard drive?

eqWoeker is just one symptom. There's no point in fixing the symptom, you have to find out why it didn't work because other items will not have worked either.
i will search for it now but i dont understand why it doesnt install where it should (i checked the path)

I downloaded separately from gotm17 eqworker and other needed files so that should work now (i hope so). One way could be to manualy install files for all gotm's from 17-32 but it will take quite long.

But once game crashed when i contacted spanish so that probably means everything is installed somewhere wrong as you said.

Going to search now, and manualy install gotm17 files.
thx for help, i'll post here if i have new problems.

invy
Jul 30, 2004, 05:04 PM
An interesting thing: i installed gotm21_v129_full_setup.exe to empty folder on my disk: c:/lalala and after instalation there are only two files: unins000.dat and unins000.exe .

AlanH
Jul 30, 2004, 05:04 PM
Noooo! If you just install gotm17 you still won't have what you need. Also, what makes you think you'll get them in the right place when you clearly don't have the gotm21 files in the right place? Sorry, but I've been in tech support for more years than I care to remember one way and another. Trust me, if you go down that route you'll never get there :D

AlanH
Jul 30, 2004, 05:06 PM
An interesting thing: i installed gotm21_v129_full_setup.exe to empty folder on my disk: c:/lalala and after instalation there are only two files: unins000.dat and unins000.exe .

How big is the installer you ran? It should also have installed two folders - Text and Art. Did it complain that there were no files called resources.pcx and resources_shadows.pcx?

ainwood
Jul 30, 2004, 06:02 PM
When you start the installer, it will come up with a 'default' directory path, which is often not the correct one. As Alan said, you need to use the browse thingy to set it to install to the Civ3 directory. Search for eqWorker*.* on your PC, and see where it has installed it. :)

invy
Jul 31, 2004, 11:56 AM
I installed everything from the beginning and this time there is eqworker :).
Some icons are missing in civilopedia (they are coloured red or with '?', i contacted arabs fine, koreans have some flag (when talking in diplomacy) and game crashes when i contact spanish.
I guess i didnt install spanish pack correctly (what pack is that)?
almost everything fine :)

AlanH
Jul 31, 2004, 02:07 PM
Korea is supposed to have a flag. Yes, the civilopedia has some missing icons. It sounds like the only problem is the Spain one, and that's a known issue ...

With the Windoze installers there's an extra step for the Spanish, I think. You have to make seven more copies of the Art\filcs\spain.flc file and rename them spain1.flc, spain2.flc ... spain7.flc. If you do that, you're probably ready to go. Well done :thumbsup:

invy
Jul 31, 2004, 03:58 PM
Korea is supposed to have a flag. Yes, the civilopedia has some missing icons. It sounds like the only problem is the Spain one, and that's a known issue ...

With the Windoze installers there's an extra step for the Spanish, I think. You have to make seven more copies of the Art\filcs\spain.flc file and rename them spain1.flc, spain2.flc ... spain7.flc. If you do that, you're probably ready to go. Well done :thumbsup:
Is that a joke or? 7 copies? :)
I guess i could play whole game without contacting spain :)

invy
Jul 31, 2004, 04:04 PM
its ok now, i renamed files and game is working (spain has gandhi icon :))
I hope this was last problem.
thank you all!

AlanH
Jul 31, 2004, 04:11 PM
Is that a joke or? 7 copies? :)
I guess i could play whole game without contacting spain :)

I never joke! :eek: :joke:

Right click/duplicate seven times, right click rename seven times? What's the big deal?

ainwood
Jul 31, 2004, 04:46 PM
I never joke! :eek: :joke:

Right click/duplicate seven times, right click rename seven times? What's the big deal?
That the installer should have been updated so that new people coming in didn't have to worry about this. ;)

AlanH
Jul 31, 2004, 06:29 PM
Ahah! You mean like the Mac ones? :mischief:

invy
Aug 01, 2004, 06:41 AM
Hm again crashed:

peadiaicons.txt missing entry WON_SPLASH_56

It is my turn and in one city game reports i made swordsman and the crash after that, i think game should reported after swordsman that Forbidden Palace is finished.

I have installed pediaicons.txt from gotm33 files and i checked in it and there is no line WON_SPLASH_56.

Can someone upload or give a link to this file, its small.

AlanH
Aug 01, 2004, 07:59 AM
Hm again crashed:

peadiaicons.txt missing entry WON_SPLASH_56

It is my turn and in one city game reports i made swordsman and the crash after that, i think game should reported after swordsman that Forbidden Palace is finished.

I have installed pediaicons.txt from gotm33 files and i checked in it and there is no line WON_SPLASH_56.

Can someone upload or give a link to this file, its small.

It appears that the Wonders section of the pediaicons.txt file for Civ3 1.29 has somehow been invaded by the stuff from PTW. The Civ3 file should have numeric references to the Wonders.

Attached is a corrected version. Apologies for the error.

invy
Aug 01, 2004, 09:50 AM
thx for great adn fast help, its ok now, (hehe it was forbidden palace :))

invy
Aug 02, 2004, 02:01 PM
What exactly should i do with spain? I have in flics folder 7 spain folders (spain1, spain 2...) and seven same files (1 in each folder )named the same as folder: spain1, spain 2...). I think you told it should be like that.
I only once succefully contacted Spain and every other time game crashed.
Anyway its year somewhere about 1380AD and going well. Every time Spain wants to contact me i just turn them of :)

ainwood
Aug 02, 2004, 02:26 PM
You can delete all those folders - its the file that you need. That should solve the problem. :)

AlanH
Aug 02, 2004, 02:37 PM
I think the installer makes the spain1 ... spain7 floders in error. You can throw them away. You should have eight files in \Art\Flics\ for Spain. They should all be copies of the original spain.flc file, and they should be called:

spain.flc
spain1.flc
spain2.flc
spain3.flc
spain4.flc
spain5.flc
spain6.flc
spain7.flc

Here's the relevant part of my \Art\Flics\ folder listing:

invy
Aug 03, 2004, 07:06 AM
ok thx
I know you will hate me but i cant help it.
Now game crashes when i enter new era (middle ages crashed when i was playing with aztecs gotm32, modern age with greeks gotm 33)
I don't know why is this because i obviously got to modern age in gotm33 but now can't get to it with aztecs. I think it was ok before i installed file pediaicons that stopped wonder crashes. So I tried pediaicons.txt from gotm 33 and again file you posted above but with both game crashed.
Error is: missing entry pediaicons.txt ERA_SPLASH something like that.

AlanH
Aug 03, 2004, 07:16 AM
Error is: missing entry pediaicons.txt ERA_SPLASH something like that.
I'll look at it when I get home, but a full error message would be much easier to diagnose. ;)

invy
Aug 03, 2004, 07:27 AM
I'll look at it when I get home, but a full error message would be much easier to diagnose. ;)
missing entry: ERA_SPLASH_ERA2 in gotm33 (to modern age)
ERA_SPLASH_ERA0 in gotm32 (to middle age)

invy
Aug 03, 2004, 09:09 AM
I fixed it by copying few lines from other pediaicons.txt (lines era_splash_era0 etc between asteriks:

***********
era_splash_era0
...
...
***********
And it worked :)
Just to mention - Spain is fine now.

Game finished 1705AD Diplomatic victory, my first emperor victory :)