Recent content by Drexl

Hi, I was the one who added that note about changing the install folder. Based on some threads I looked at here, and the review at Amazon, I saw that some people had trouble getting the patch to install, and it was creating separate folders. Actually, the reason I came to this forum in the...

I read that several others here had problems getting the patch to install, and it was creating a different folder. When I installed the game, I noticed it was going to install in a different folder, so I changed it, and the patch worked for me, so I thought that was the problem. If it would...

Bear in mind that the patch won't work by just running it, unless you happened to change the installation folder to "Sid Meier's Civilization 4" instead of the default "Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Complete." The problem is that Complete uses the latter folder name by default, and the patch is...

If you had some free time, you could just replace each mp3 file in the Assets\Sounds\Tech folders with a silent one of the same name. There are 172 of them in Civ4's folder (Nimoy), and 12 in BTS's folder (Meier). There are also 4 wav files for generic techs in the latter, which are just the...

Vista uses some virtual folders and moves some things around. When you install an application made for XP, it will redirect the files to different folders while still pointing to them for compatibility. I would suggest searching for My Games, making sure to have it search hidden and system...

I had been reading about this prior to getting the game, and I just got my copy today. I think I may have the best way to avoid problems. When I installed the game, I chose the custom install (as I usually do for most things), and I noticed that it was going to install the game into a folder...

You just run the executable file in the zip. You can extract that anywhere first.