Game crashs

[bowu]

My Game crashes when starting a game within almost all mods. It is initializing Graphics and then Vista(32Bit) detects a problem and shuts the game down. My DVD is a Civ IV Complete version.

In the logs i saw nothing curious.

The windows error message is everytime:

Fehlerhafte Anwendung Civ4BeyondSword.exe, Version 3.1.3.1, Zeitstempel 0x48317e8a, fehlerhaftes Modul MSVCR71.dll, Version 7.10.3052.4, Zeitstempel 0x3e561eac, Ausnahmecode 0xc0000005, Fehleroffset 0x00002eee, Prozess-ID 0x1730, Anwendungsstartzeit 01c9bd482cf64dc6.

Dxdiag attached if does any good.


I tried several reinstalls and configuration changes, but nothing had an impact yet.

Help would be highly appreciated.

P.S.: If it helps i can translate the windows error message

[phungus420]

First things first, regardless of whether or not you think your game is patched, patch it using the patch you can find on this site. The autoupdator is coded to fail, and often tells you the game is patched when it is not, the only way to be sure is to download the official patch from here, and patch it with that. This fixes 90% of the mod issues brought up here. Also update your drivers for your video card.

Second thing, after you download and install the official patch from here, many mods have problems with Civ Complete and Steam, and especially Vista. Try downloading and installing the BUG mod, and install using the multiplayer option (installs as a proper mod, rather then to the custom assets folder). If you patch your game, and BUG still doesn't work as a mod, then we have a problem. Best thing to do in that case will be to go to the BUG forum and see if you can be helped there, the BUG people are great, and that mod is very supported, if there really is a problem beyond things being patched or a specific issue with the mods you've tried, support from the BUG team is your best bet of getting things solved. More then likely though I suspect that if you patch your game, BUG will work, and then any issue you still experience will be specific to the mod you are trying to use (especially since you are running Vista and Using Civ Complete, which are notorius for causing problems with mods).

Civ BtS 3.17 patch
The BUG Mod *and remember to install using the Multiplayer-Install as a mod option, doing the basic install would tell us nothing if it works, as it loads everything into custom assets.

[bowu]

Your first suggestion was one of the things I tried yesterday without success.

But now I recognize that I could have been more specific: The game crashes only if the mod uses its own map - If I chose to play on a script generated map usually everything works. (Unfortunately many mods are entertainment-wise heavily reliant on their maps)

So, Bug mod has no crashes so far.

[phungus420]

Ah, I see. Sorry, that's an issue with the map and mod. It's just not going to work, that map isn't compatable with that mod. That's just all there is to it. It's actually a serious PITA for me, because I really want a scenario maker to make a scenario or two for my mod, Bronze Steam and Tears, but no one will, because a whole new map needs to be designed for the mod, in order for that to work. And I guess know one wants to build a map for my mod