1.61 Time Victory at start

I upgraded to version 1.61, after reinstalling, and now whenever I start a game, theres a timelimit of 10 turns in the top right corner, and after those 10 turns finish, it says 'Alexander has won a Time Victory'. And prompts the end-game things (menus, scores, etc.)

i would like ot belive you but do you have a screenie of this

You are not telling the whole story, though, are you? ...you upgraded to 1.61 then added a file you downloaded from somewhere else. This is not a bug, there is nothing wrong with the original game. Just use your CD like everyone else, it's more reliable.

I am, in fact, telling the entire story.

I installed with the cd, and am using the cd to run it. Do not accuse, if you do not know the situation, and do not try to assume something you know nothing about. It was perfectly fine, with cd, pre-1.61, it breaks when I update. It is not cracked, it is the purchased copy of the game, and it is mine and mine alone.

I have reinstalled twice, and upgraded to 1.61, and it did the same thing.

I am not playing, without upgrading, since the 1.61 screws my game.

edit to add: I am using no third party software, at all.

This is discussed in the main forum too.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=170748

This guy has that same problem. Go to post #14.

After declaring he's "an idiot" (post #12), he says:

"I was trying to run the No CD with it, apparently thats the problem. Its fine though ill just pop the cd in. Its not against the rules as long as its not warez i believe... the newest no cd for 1.61 causes is"

Please read my above post.

I am not using the no-cd. I am running it straight from the cd, and have not used the no-cd.

Let me put this more simply: THERE IS NO ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE IN MY FOLDER.

Multiplayer works fine, its just the single player that screws up. I have un/reinstalled twice and it just doesn't work correctly. I understand that yes, this -can- be a no-cd symptom. However, in this case, it is NOT the cause.

ill try install a no cd crack and see if this happens with me

ahHa Found Somthing

qoute form gameburnworld

CIVILIZATION 4 v1.61 [ENGLISH] FIXED EXE (2.98MB) -There are a couple of issues with this game fix, and therefore it does not work properly

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now thats either copy protection kikcing in or its just a bug with the warez

by any chance direkenshin are you running ANY emulation software in the background like deamon tools

I wasn't suggesting you didn't have a legitimate copy of the game, just that you might have added a bad file that is circulating at the moment. It just seems to be too much of a coincidence that 100's of people upgraded to 1.61 apparently without this problem then all of a sudden, within a day or two of someone releasing a broken executable to get round having to have a CD present, various people come crawling out of the woodwork complaining of a 10-turn limit, not being able to load saved games and/or a loss of terrain details. Most of these people seem to have cured the problem completely by reverting to their original game files and a CD in the drive.

If you say you are using nothing but the original then fine, I believe you. Obviously there is something else going on here and perhaps the poster above me is on the right track in thinking that there may be something else on your PC that is tripping some anti-piracy measure. Maybe Firaxis have changed the checks that the game makes, I have no idea, but it sounds like a PITA for anyone legit that falls foul of them.

I hope you find the answer and will post your findings here for others in the same situation.

PS. This may be totally irrelevant but I read here somewhere recently that Microsoft have released a safedisc fix that addresses issues of games not starting properly for XP fast switch users. Might be worth Googling for more info. Who knows, this might all be Microsoft's fault after all, lol!

Oooh, I had daemon tools in the background. ^_^ Sorry.

If I sounded angry I'm sorry, I was just frustrated.

direkenshin said:

Oooh, I had daemon tools in the background. ^_^ Sorry.

If I sounded angry I'm sorry, I was just frustrated.

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well i hope that fixed your porpplem the patch must of changed the emulation protextion propties and changed how it protects agasint piracy

since 1.61 it ends the game agfter 10 turns