I've been attempting to play several well-established TOT scenarios on my new Windows 8 computer. These scenarios never caused me any problems on my old Windows 7 machine. As of now, when I try to begin a scenario, the game will immediately crash due to errors emanating from the @CIVILIZE section of the Rules.txt file. For some reason, if I set the prerequisites for all tech advances back to their civ2 defaults, then voila, the scenario works fine.
Here is just one example. Attached is the @CIVILIZE section from a scenario that worked well on my old computer. However, the game will now crash unless I change the following two techs' prerequisites back to their civ2 defaults:
The Corporation, 4, 0, Las, Eco, 2, 1 ; Cor
Electricity, 4, 0, Met, MP, 2, 4 ; E1
Namely, Las must be changed to Ind and MP must be changed to Mag. Why would these changes be necessary? This is especially weird because I never had a problem playing this scenario on my old machine with the exact same Rules.txt file. (By the way, I'm using the most recent ToTPP patch, but even when I disable all of the patches, the game will crash unless I alter the prereqs in @CIVILIZE).
Here is just one example. Attached is the @CIVILIZE section from a scenario that worked well on my old computer. However, the game will now crash unless I change the following two techs' prerequisites back to their civ2 defaults:
The Corporation, 4, 0, Las, Eco, 2, 1 ; Cor
Electricity, 4, 0, Met, MP, 2, 4 ; E1
Namely, Las must be changed to Ind and MP must be changed to Mag. Why would these changes be necessary? This is especially weird because I never had a problem playing this scenario on my old machine with the exact same Rules.txt file. (By the way, I'm using the most recent ToTPP patch, but even when I disable all of the patches, the game will crash unless I alter the prereqs in @CIVILIZE).