OrokinLonewolf
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This sounds silly but I can't figure out how to add the extra normal difficulties to GAME.TXT. The extra Barbarian difficulty works wonderfully** and I only have problems if I try to add a 2nd extra Barbarian difficulty, which I assume is cuz the game can't handle it. Now regarding the normal difficulties, no matter what I name them to, I can't play anything beyond Difficulty 6 (Deity) unless I go 100% save-less. Autosave doesn't work at all and any manual save causes a CTD. At first I thought it was my naming convention (I left Deity as the hardest but added 2 different names before it, effectively making Deity a D+2) but even after making Deity difficulty 6 again and just adding names after it, I still have the same problem.
My second problem is something probably more archaic, but to me it's more important. I found this post that only briefly mentions my problem. If you go to comment 328 by strikerfett, they list pictures of the EXACT same problem I'm having - videos just don't work. Unlike that post, my issue also extends to Wonder Videos too. And before y'all suggest it, yes I have transferred the Video and KINGS folders to my MGE folder, yes I have the right MGE version (5.4.0f), yes Civ2UIA is install properly (literally everything else works so I'm assuming on this one), yes I've enabled the Indeo codec on my Win11 machine, and yes I've reinstalled MGE and all of the above.
Just as a side note, if I run the game without Civ2UIA in compatibility mode for Win XP Serv Pack 2 and 3, the videos work fine. I can't use Civ2UIA alongside this though because it throws error code 5 and doesnt fully initialize, leaving me with a choice between videos or UI additions... blegh
Even though I went and enabled the codec with cmd "successfully" TWICE, this post suggested a codec checker that showed my codec was, in fact, not installed right. It even turned on the codec for me, so that problem is fixed now (leaving this all here in case some poor sap in the future has the same issues).
**WHY DO THEY SPAWN 60+ AT A TIME???
Just as a side note, if I run the game without Civ2UIA in compatibility mode for Win XP Serv Pack 2 and 3, the videos work fine. I can't use Civ2UIA alongside this though because it throws error code 5 and doesnt fully initialize, leaving me with a choice between videos or UI additions... blegh
Even though I went and enabled the codec with cmd "successfully" TWICE, this post suggested a codec checker that showed my codec was, in fact, not installed right. It even turned on the codec for me, so that problem is fixed now (leaving this all here in case some poor sap in the future has the same issues).
**WHY DO THEY SPAWN 60+ AT A TIME???
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