it's sad that the two main games that I play are becoming more and more mystical just to even try to play. More accurately, I wanted to maybe play some civ iv bts game of the months (BOTM) again but the steam install seems to have archaic interactions with the hall of fame mod such that the save file doesnt launch properly.
I might have had some probably odd stuff in terms of path directories used for saves/the game, etc, as a while ago I had moved all my civ installations away from the cd versions to just the steam bundle as I thought that would make things simple for the future (new computer? just fire up steam), and those old directories could interfere. But I should have all that unistalled and the fix is some file replacements that I don't know where the files come from (there are some posts that talk about the issues). I can ditch steam of course, but my rant is more that things have to get so complicated.
Long story short, often trying to make things simple and streamlined seems to have the opposite effect
EDIT: the civ BE demo won't launch from the "play".....(no error given, just isn't launching)
what did I ever do to technology
I'm old
edit2 hours later: actually, I'm pretty sure I don't have the disks anymore in my possession. They're left elsewhere as I thought no situation would arise that required their potential use.
