Forgive me if this has already been solved elsewhere, I lurked for a little bit before joining, but didn't see anything related to my problem.
Anyway, I played Civ4 before any of the expansions came out, and then bought each expansion as soon as they were released. I know it runs fine on my computer, that isn't the issue here.
A while ago I had to uninstall Civ4 and all of it's expansions to make some room on my hard drive. Well, I have since then gotten an external hard drive, and have been fiending for some Civ again. So I go through the instillation of vanilla, and then through warlords. When I get to beyond the sword is where I start to have problems.
When I put BotS into my drive, it doesn't give me an install option. It just has "play","read me", and "exit". When I choose play, the window closes, and my computer acts as if I had just clicked the exit button. No programs aside from the usual 4 or 5 currently running in the task manager. So I checked in the folders, and the start menu for an uninstall option. None to be found. So I try uninstalling Warlords and Vanilla, and reinstalling them both. Same outcome. So I uninstall them all again, and use the add/remove program to make sure they are gone. BotS was on there as well, but so were the other two even when they weren't installed. So, I removed all three, and try installing again, and I still get the same result.
I can't get BotS to realize that it isn't installed on my computer, and none of the other versions will run because they all say "Please insert BotS Disk: 1."
Few last side notes: I've used the find files/folders option in the start menu for anything I can think of relating to Civ4 to no avail. Like I said, it did used to all run fine. I am on Windows XP, not vista. I am also going through serious withdrawal right now. Any and all help with be greatly appreciated.
Anyway, I played Civ4 before any of the expansions came out, and then bought each expansion as soon as they were released. I know it runs fine on my computer, that isn't the issue here.
A while ago I had to uninstall Civ4 and all of it's expansions to make some room on my hard drive. Well, I have since then gotten an external hard drive, and have been fiending for some Civ again. So I go through the instillation of vanilla, and then through warlords. When I get to beyond the sword is where I start to have problems.
When I put BotS into my drive, it doesn't give me an install option. It just has "play","read me", and "exit". When I choose play, the window closes, and my computer acts as if I had just clicked the exit button. No programs aside from the usual 4 or 5 currently running in the task manager. So I checked in the folders, and the start menu for an uninstall option. None to be found. So I try uninstalling Warlords and Vanilla, and reinstalling them both. Same outcome. So I uninstall them all again, and use the add/remove program to make sure they are gone. BotS was on there as well, but so were the other two even when they weren't installed. So, I removed all three, and try installing again, and I still get the same result.
I can't get BotS to realize that it isn't installed on my computer, and none of the other versions will run because they all say "Please insert BotS Disk: 1."
Few last side notes: I've used the find files/folders option in the start menu for anything I can think of relating to Civ4 to no avail. Like I said, it did used to all run fine. I am on Windows XP, not vista. I am also going through serious withdrawal right now. Any and all help with be greatly appreciated.
so they are probably much better today - I just cannot advice on which to use). 
