Hello. I've been searching these forums and can't find the answer to the following...
I have a new system running Vista 32x, 2gb ram, quad 2.6mhz.
I installed Civ4, with no problems known (played for 30 minutes fine). The version is retail (CD), and is the original Civ4 from when the game first came out if not just a few months later.
Problem 1) When I try to install BtS, it starts install shield. It then checks and updates DirectX compenents. It then finds that there is a newer version of Civ4 available, and will be installed now... then 5-10 seconds later, the error "The patch failed to install! Aborting installation." When you hit "okay", the whole installation disappears and you're back at desktop.
Problem 2) If I try to update Civ4 from inside the game (it wants to go to patch 1.74 and skip 1.6), when you hit update, the download bar says 0/-1 bytes, 0%, and after 10 seconds tells you the patch failed to download.
Problem 3) If I download patch 1.61 from the Civ4 website, when I run it I get the following error. "The setup has detected that no version of Sid Meier's Civilization 4 is installed. This update requires that a previous version of the application be installed."
Also, since this is asked in all other threads, yes Civ 4 shows up in my control panel as a program I can uninstall.
What do I do to make the patch realize Civ4 is installed?
Thank you for any help.
I have a new system running Vista 32x, 2gb ram, quad 2.6mhz.
I installed Civ4, with no problems known (played for 30 minutes fine). The version is retail (CD), and is the original Civ4 from when the game first came out if not just a few months later.
Problem 1) When I try to install BtS, it starts install shield. It then checks and updates DirectX compenents. It then finds that there is a newer version of Civ4 available, and will be installed now... then 5-10 seconds later, the error "The patch failed to install! Aborting installation." When you hit "okay", the whole installation disappears and you're back at desktop.
Problem 2) If I try to update Civ4 from inside the game (it wants to go to patch 1.74 and skip 1.6), when you hit update, the download bar says 0/-1 bytes, 0%, and after 10 seconds tells you the patch failed to download.
Problem 3) If I download patch 1.61 from the Civ4 website, when I run it I get the following error. "The setup has detected that no version of Sid Meier's Civilization 4 is installed. This update requires that a previous version of the application be installed."
Also, since this is asked in all other threads, yes Civ 4 shows up in my control panel as a program I can uninstall.
What do I do to make the patch realize Civ4 is installed?
Thank you for any help.