I've been stalking these forums for several years now and downloading mods (especially Rhye's and Fall and its branch-offs), but I have joined now so I can discuss this problem. This is the only thread I've found that seems to be able to offer any help.
Last week I bought a Toshiba Windows 8.1 64-bit laptop, and just today I was downloading Civ4 (I have the Complete Edition, so all of the expansion packs on one disc). The game seems to run fine, but I wanted to play my mods. None of the mods I installed are working. I've read some of the first post but honestly I just nitpicked the things I thought were the quickest and easiest. Since the game itself isn't causing me any problems and it's just, coincidentally, all of the mods that I installed that aren't working, I figure there should be a simpler fix.
A little elaboration on the problem: say I got into Load a Mod and I click on Dawn of Civilization (or any other mod that wasn't pre-installed for that matter [the vanilla RFC works]), it will close out of Civ4 as normal but I wait and wait and the mod never loads. Then I tried going into the folders themselves and opening the WB saves from there, I didn't even get a response from them. My OS has some kind of troubleshoot tool that lets me run programs at a previous OS setting, but the mods still wouldn't load when I ran Civ on XP settings.
I was already extremely apprehensive about getting a Windows 8 computer, but it couldn't really be helped. My previous PC was a desktop running XP and I considered it my baby, but the motherboard blew out over the summer after moving to a new home.
I greatly appreciate any help I can get.