Just got a new laptop, copies over a few games from my Steam folder, including Civ4. I did copy the game plus the 2 expansions, though apparently they don't actually matter, since I only need BTS installed, it includes all the other stuff anyway.
But I digress. Trying to start bts, it just opens the steam 'preparing to load' window, which then vanishes without running anything. The weird thing is, Vanilla and Warlords do start.
I've tried verifying the game cache (It was fine), Deleting and redownloading from scratch, and nothing's worked.
About the only thing that I can think that could be causing this is the fact that since I copied it from my PC's install, it was running at a screen resolution much higher than my laptop can deal with. But shouldn't deleting the game files through Steam then redownloading them fix that anyway?
Also, in My Documents>My Games, there is a Civ4, and a Warlords folder, but nothing for BTS. Could this be related, or would this folder just be created when the game succesfully starts.
I've been searching around the BTS folder, and found the shortcut to '_civ4config' in streamapps>common>Civ4 bts > Beyond the Sword
But... apparently, this is linking to:
"C:\Documents and Settings\cdouglass\My Documents\My Games\beyond the sword\CivilizationIV.ini"
But all the other shortcuts there are working propery:
"C:\Users\Iviv\Documents\My Games\beyond the sword\CustomAssets"
Tried to point it to the right directory, then its saying that it can't find that file, so can't shortcut to it, which is fair enough. Created a BTS folder and civilizationIV.ini file. Game still not loading.
Also tried copying over the my games\beyond the sword folder from my PC, but no luck.
Also, running the 'Civ4BeyondSword.exe' directly creates the error: 'The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application.
I appreciate that this is probably not the best place to ask since its possibly a steam issue, but I've got a threat going there as well so figured I'd ask here as well, since more people see here!
Thanks ^_^
But I digress. Trying to start bts, it just opens the steam 'preparing to load' window, which then vanishes without running anything. The weird thing is, Vanilla and Warlords do start.
I've tried verifying the game cache (It was fine), Deleting and redownloading from scratch, and nothing's worked.
About the only thing that I can think that could be causing this is the fact that since I copied it from my PC's install, it was running at a screen resolution much higher than my laptop can deal with. But shouldn't deleting the game files through Steam then redownloading them fix that anyway?
Also, in My Documents>My Games, there is a Civ4, and a Warlords folder, but nothing for BTS. Could this be related, or would this folder just be created when the game succesfully starts.
I've been searching around the BTS folder, and found the shortcut to '_civ4config' in streamapps>common>Civ4 bts > Beyond the Sword
But... apparently, this is linking to:
"C:\Documents and Settings\cdouglass\My Documents\My Games\beyond the sword\CivilizationIV.ini"
But all the other shortcuts there are working propery:
"C:\Users\Iviv\Documents\My Games\beyond the sword\CustomAssets"
Tried to point it to the right directory, then its saying that it can't find that file, so can't shortcut to it, which is fair enough. Created a BTS folder and civilizationIV.ini file. Game still not loading.
Also tried copying over the my games\beyond the sword folder from my PC, but no luck.
Also, running the 'Civ4BeyondSword.exe' directly creates the error: 'The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application.
I appreciate that this is probably not the best place to ask since its possibly a steam issue, but I've got a threat going there as well so figured I'd ask here as well, since more people see here!
Thanks ^_^