DJAnyReason
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- Nov 15, 2005
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So I downloaded the Slower Tech mod today, made some changes to it in the direction of the fewer religioins mod, and started playing. I exited the game and later tried to load the save, and have had some serious problems.
Initially, the game tells me it has to load Mods/C:/Documents and Settings/.../Slower Tech+Balance which, obviously, is a path that doesn't exist (note the "mods/C:/" part). Whenever it tried to load, it'd also say it doesn't exist and just stop loading it.
I then edited the save game file, so it just loaded mods/Slower Tech+Balance. It loaded it fine, but every time it finished loading, it'd tell me that it had to load Mods/Slower Tech+Balance, and ask if it could restart. If I said yes, restart, reload the mod, ask again.
I tried this with different mods, and had the same result, so its probably not unique to the mod.
Take2's tech support was utterly useless in addressing this - as soon as the word 'mod' came out of my mouth, the guy just started being a complete ass and said they don't support mods no way no how (regardless of the fact that Civ 4 is designed for modding, but whatever).
Anyway, any help I can get would be much appreciated.
*EDIT*
This morning I had the brilliant idea of using the Documents and Settings/Application Data/Firaxis Games/Civ 4/Mods folder, rahter than Documents and Settings/User/My Games/Civ 4/Mods folder for the mod and, lo and behold, games started with the mods loaded from that folder save and load properly. This is, of course, annoying since App Data is a hidden folder, but whatever. Figured I'd post this solution in case anybody else runs into this problem and turns to the forums for a fix.
Initially, the game tells me it has to load Mods/C:/Documents and Settings/.../Slower Tech+Balance which, obviously, is a path that doesn't exist (note the "mods/C:/" part). Whenever it tried to load, it'd also say it doesn't exist and just stop loading it.
I then edited the save game file, so it just loaded mods/Slower Tech+Balance. It loaded it fine, but every time it finished loading, it'd tell me that it had to load Mods/Slower Tech+Balance, and ask if it could restart. If I said yes, restart, reload the mod, ask again.
I tried this with different mods, and had the same result, so its probably not unique to the mod.
Take2's tech support was utterly useless in addressing this - as soon as the word 'mod' came out of my mouth, the guy just started being a complete ass and said they don't support mods no way no how (regardless of the fact that Civ 4 is designed for modding, but whatever).
Anyway, any help I can get would be much appreciated.
*EDIT*
This morning I had the brilliant idea of using the Documents and Settings/Application Data/Firaxis Games/Civ 4/Mods folder, rahter than Documents and Settings/User/My Games/Civ 4/Mods folder for the mod and, lo and behold, games started with the mods loaded from that folder save and load properly. This is, of course, annoying since App Data is a hidden folder, but whatever. Figured I'd post this solution in case anybody else runs into this problem and turns to the forums for a fix.
