manual for v0.97 said:
Thanks for working with me on the issue. Unfortunately, I'm pretty clueless about it. Perhaps, once I upload that beta version, you could check if the problem persists. Though I haven't consciously done anything to fix it. Just to make sure: Music on the menu still plays after loading the mod, right? And (non-music) sounds, e.g. when selecting a unit? I may have to upload a build with some extra assertions eventually to hopefully find out at which point music playback fails on your end. Audio log looks normal? (Well, probably does ...) Here's mine for reference:
Oh well, in that case, I'll revert to my earlier reply – don't know why it happens, but v0.97 might be able to recover from it.
Perhaps "% faster" is a slightly misleading statistic. The test took 633 seconds last summer with 0.96 (I don't think there were performance tweaks in the minor releases since then), currently 442 seconds. 422 would be 2/3 of the old time and thus 50% faster. Not a great amount of time saved really.
Left-clicking on a tile outside of the city radius and double-clicking the city center no longer exit, both to avoid accidents (seeing that single-clicking the city tile enables citizen automation). Instead, right-clicking the city center now exits and keeps the camera centered on the city. I've been finding that quite useful. Anyway, those are all pre-0.96 changes iirc.
No, through CvGame::handleCityScreenPlotPicked, one of the CvGameInterface functions added by the BtS expansion (or more likely: moved from the EXE to the DLL). There's a GlobalDefines setting though: CITY_SCREEN_CLICK_WILL_EXIT
Not really, sorry. The last time I played it (years ago) I wasn't good enough to judge the AI quality, and this time around it was just for debugging (i.e. can the mod reach the main menu without CTD). I can tell you the AI didn't know how to keep the revolution systems from breaking it into little pieces.
I don't suppose running the Visual Studio debugger under Wine is an option. Anything interesting in the logs? There should be something in init.log. I can upload a build with assertions; assuming that popups from failed assertions appear under Wine (they're shown through a function named DialogBoxIndirectParamA in WinUser.h). I kind of doubt that any of the existing assertions will fail, but I could insert a few dummy assertions in order to trace how far the initialization/ loading code gets in the DLL. I'd prefer for the mod to be compatible with Wine.
Yeah, me neither. Thanks for being willing to look into this anyway.
That's what I was thinking.
Part of the standard Civ4-on-*nix setup is disabling XML and filesystem caching in CivilizationIV.ini because that doesn't (or didn't use to?) work reliably cross-platform. I don't think this is just XML-related, but it could involve some CvGameCore-XML-wine interaction.
Eh, never say never. I'm willing to give it a shot tomorrow.
init.log is so uselessly short I'll just paste it here:
If you send it to me, I'll run it and report back. You may have better luck printing straight to stderr or stdout instead of making a series of dialogs, and it'd make for easier copypasta. Or if you think it'd be better to just skip to VS debugger, that's an option.
The last entry ("FILE Cat") comes from the EXE, apparently after reading or otherwise dealing with the catalogCiv4BeyondSword...dat files in the file cache folder. That and the "Mod Loaded" message get written after the DllMain and global static constructor calls (so those are OK apparently) and before the CvXMLLoadUtility constructor call. Before any further messages, the progress bar for loading XML should appear. Yup, pretty useless.
Well, you sound like you know (how to find out) what you're getting into. I suppose you wouldn't have to bother with the compiler from 2003 because you don't need to compile the debug DLL yourself. So perhaps it's not that much trouble. If you can't get it to work, maybe GenerateCrashDumps=1 in CivilizationIV.ini can help. That said, if the crash, ultimately, occurs in msvcr71.dll ...
If it does work, it will show a dialog and then attempt to write a ca. 3 MB file Civ4BeyondSword.exe.dmp to the Windows temp folder, which I could then debug in Visual Studio. (The "full dump" is much larger, but wouldn't be needed.)
) instead. The MessageLog isn't available that early.Always is 0:
enum MilitaryBranchTypes {
HOME_GUARD = 0,City placement through WorldBuilder? That would be PlatyBuilder I guess. Might cause problems if a player's first city is placed that way; though I don't really see how it would go wrong.
