Extract the
ZIP archive into the BtS
Mods folder – either under
Program Files or under
My Games. BtS version 3.19 is required. The mod runs on Windows and, possibly, on Windows compatibility layers such as Wine (but no technical support can be provided for such non-native installations).
Steam users will have to
revert to the GameSpy "beta" version to use Taurus; a
Mods folder is located in
Steamapps\Common\Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword\Beyond the Sword.
To start the mod through a Windows
shortcut, create a shortcut to
Civ4BeyondSword.exe, open the shortcut's file properties, and add a space and
mod=\Taurus to the Target field. (In Steam, the mod can
reportedly be loaded automatically through the "launch options" of BtS.) Installation into
CustomAssets should be possible but is not recommended as mods in
CustomAssets will interfere with mods in the
Mods folder that fail to set
NoCustomAssets=1 in their
INI file. (Installing a mod in
CustomAssets normally has the benefit of savegame-compatibility with BtS, but Taurus is able to load and export BtS, BUG, BULL and BAT savegames, so this should not be a concern.)
INI files with user interface settings are, for the most part, compatible between all BUG-based mods. To
import settings from another BUG-based mod into Taurus, locate the
UserSettings folder of that mod – either in the mod's folder under
Beyond the Sword\Mods or under
My Games\Beyond the Sword – and copy its contents into
Mods\Taurus\UserSettings. The default Taurus settings can always be restored by clearing the
UserSettings folder; the
INI files then get recreated upon starting Taurus.
Taurus will not prevent
artwork under
CustomAssets from being loaded and should be fully compatible with the
Blue Marble mod and its Gold theme installed as custom assets. The Blue Marble terrain graphics can also be obtained as an
FPK file from the archive linked at the end of
this post in the K-Mod subforum. Taurus will load any
FPK files placed in
Taurus\Assets. A similar pack of terrain textures, closer to the original BtS textures, can be obtained
here from the Advanced Civ mod.
The integration of the external
Map Finder tool works the same as with BULL except that the Map Finder options have moved to the newly introduced "Saves" tab of the mod options screen. Apart from that, please refer to the
instructions on the Hall of Fame website.
