Please Help!

I've had Civ IV Complete for a few weeks now. I've been playing on a netbook with 1024x600 resolution, and I got around the fact that the game doesn't support that by changing the default resolution to 1310x768 in the .ini file (as described here).

I've played vanilla BTS and the RFC SoI and RevDCM mods without a hitch.

45 minutes ago, I opened BTS and selected the Hundred Years' War mod I DL'd from this very site a few days ago.

The game closed to load the mod, and began to restart. When the load screen had reached 'Init Engine', I got an error message saying the game doesn't support 1024x600 (the same message I got before I tweaked the .ini)

I opened the .ini and saw that the defaults had been restored, so I changed 'em again and opened BTS. Same error message. Tried RevDCM from the desktop, same error. Tried opening a WorldBuilder Save. Same error, even though the .ini says 1310x768...

So then I deleted the HYW mod from C:\....BTS\Mods in case BTS was still trying to load it. Same error message...

I don't have another computer capable of playing Civ IV, so can someone please help me fix this?

Most mods include their own .ini file, which overrides the standard one. Look in the mod folder for an .ini and make your change in that.

Hi s.bernbaum, thanks for taking the time to reply

I put the mod back in the mods folder and looked in it. It had a config settings file and a file with the extension .ini.bak

Neither contained any mention of screen resolution, so I pasted in my custom settings from the BTS .ini file. Sadly, it didn't work. Do you think I'll have to reinstall the game, or is there anything else I can try?

The mod should not have made any changes in your game except the .ini file. Try fixing your main .ini back to the way you like it and start a regular game to see if it is fixed. If it is, your install is fine. The mod just behaves in a non-standard fashion. In that case, the best place to ask about it is in the C&C forum under the thread or subforum, whichever it has, for the mod in question.

If your game turns out to be permanently messed up, then the modder did some programming changes that aren't supposed to happen. That seems unlikely but would then necessitate a reinstall and avoiding that mod in the future!

Gotcha! I'll ask the modder... the mod does seem to have messed up my game, because restoring the games .ini to my preferred settings doesn't work. It's a bit of a pain if I have to do a full reinstall, but so be it...

Thanks for your help!