BTS Patch update questions

[billybgame]

Seems I recall from vanilla, that when you buy it off the shelf, if there are multiple patches, insanely, you can't just get the last one, and be done. You have to get each one, in chronological order, spending many hours of your life on this.

So, now with BTS, I'm trying to play multiplayer on my home network.

Didn't work...hmm...I've got the HoF mod loaded on my laptop, and on the other desktop, it was not loaded, so initial install version. Which I found was 3.03. Argh.

So, do I have to get all these versions? I don't seem to recall doing that, to get the HoF mod to work.

The biggest reason I ask is because I started to do the downloads, and the first one, 3.13, will not work. I get an error message every time I try to open and install. No biggie, only took an hour and a half to download it.

Help!

 

[ori]

in civ4 vanilla you often need 1.61 to install the 1.74 patch - no other patches are needed - need a DirectX 9c update from microsoft though
in warlords you can go straight to 2.13 - need the same DirectX update
in BtS you can go straight to 3.19 - nothing else needed.

 

[billybgame]

in civ4 vanilla you often need 1.61 to install the 1.74 patch - no other patches are needed - need a DirectX 9c update from microsoft though
in warlords you can go straight to 2.13 - need the same DirectX update
in BtS you can go straight to 3.19 - nothing else needed.

Ah...that makes sense and explains it...it's just a vanilla thing. Ok...I thought it would be for all versions of the game. We got 3.17 to work....guess we should have just gone to 3.19.

Do in progress save games carry over to 3.19? I want to get the Buffy/HOF mod, but we have a multi game going.

 

[ori]

if the MP game is password protected you might get into trouble with patching (the one who set it up would need to unprotect it on an unpatched game - then patch and then protect it again on the patched version).

 

[billybgame]

Nah...just on a home network. So, sounds like we can go to 3.19 with no worries.

 

[ori]

should be fine

 

[billybgame]

Posted this in the Buffy intro post and Multiplayer forum, but have gotten zero replies for days, so here I am again........

Just downloaded and installed this today on my computers.....in an effort to see if it had multiplayer...was pleasantly surprised to see so.

Unfortunately, we are having constant problems, with a "out of sync" problem. Haven't read through all the forum pages, but is this a known issue? What's the deal? Can it be prevented?

I'm hosting, and the other player has to log out of the game and back in each time. It seems to be each and every time he attacks anything. Only barbarians so far. But, each and every time he tried to attack one, the out of sync appeared.

Except the first time, which was when we created the game. First turn, it was out of sync.

 

[ori]

are all players' games patched to date? does anyone have anything in his custom assets folder?