Ronkhar
Warlord
I'm not sure if I should ask about this here, but I just tried to install this and it's not working.
When I start RifE (whether from the launcher or by loading the mod from BTS), the menu screen is nothing but an oversized picture of an erupting volcano or meteor storm or something, and in the bottom of the screen I can see the top of some text that I suspect says "Fall Further".
There is no menu frame, and I can't see any menu buttons, but I can see the cursor and if I press where the menu should be, I hear clicking sounds as if I'm clicking on menu items. I can't see anything happening, though.
I tried running in both Fullscreen and Windowed, and tried changing resolution. I installed by downloading v13.6 and then patching it with v13.7, as according to OP.
After trying to find someone else with the same problem here on the forums for a short while, I noticed people are saying this mod is more graphically intensive than CIV4 and most other CIV4 mods - The only other mod I've played is Fall from Heaven 2 (which works absolutely fine), and I'm on a 2.2 GHz single-core laptop with integrated Intel graphics... Is that what's causing this problem?
Just checking I understood what you see: you have this screen, without the text of the menu, but with the central brown rectangular panel? And you have "Rise from Erebus" written on the top right? (where I've Ashes of Erebus written)
Am I right?
It could be caused by hardware, but I think bugs would appear
- when loading the mod
- or when playing a game with many civilizations and a big map, not on showing a menu.
Or it could come from an incorrect ini file (9 times out of 10, my civ4 bugs, with or without mods, came from these. Now I keep a copy of them in a backup folder)
To help you more, I'd need more info
Q1) Did you play the old version of Rise from Erebus (1.4 or 1.41, that is, before my updates)? Or are you a newcomer to this mod?
Q2) Do you have Civ4BTS on version 3.19? DVD or steam edition?
Q3) What language are you playing with?
Q4) Please copy here the path that leads to the mod on your PC (for example C:\Jeux\Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Mods\Rise from Erebus)
Q5) more hardware info: RAM quantity, Operating System
No more ideas right now.
Good luck
PS: You can come on the Erebus IRC channel and ask us(warrensofthought.com, channel erebus)
Several present and former RifE coders/players lurk there regularly