CIV Gold BTS - Technical Support

[Mknn]

No, that is the .exe file that needs to be extracted. Double click it, then browse to your MODS folder and install it there.

 

[Mknn]

Also I noticed that is no difference between the assemble plant and the fabryka, and the dun and both the diwar and king's tower. I don't want to seem nitpicky but aren't they all supposed to be "unique?"

Just FYI, Other duplications and recommendations on addressing them are discussed here:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=264476

I haven't checked as to what did/did not make it into the patch.

 

[Fierabras]

In the patch we mainly focused on bug fixes and some art replacements. The balance issues haven't been done yet, but will be included in an eventual next patch/version.

 

[Agent327]

Currently preparing an update on 1066 AD for CIV Gold BTS, I came across the following.

Civpedia entry missing:
- Cochise
- Daar
- Donnaconma
- Ramkhamhaen
- Sunni*
- Tecumseh
- Wovoka.

Also:
-Sitting Bull is featured twice (as Sitting Bull & Tatanka) with no reference to the 2nd
- Cuza lived 1820-1973 (Civpedia entry)
- Leonidas shows up in a purple helmet on my comp
- Shakuohain shows up entirely purple on my comp.

* Sunni caused a CTD when trying to include him in the scenario.

 

[Massaker]

Sorry to keep bugging you guys but I got another problem.
SO the other day, I unzipeed everything, and pretty much started over.
Current contents of Mod Folder
Folder that says civ gold
-folder in it that says assets
-and a thing that says configuration settings.
-in assets it says art, xml, modules folders.

I'm thinking I finally got it right.
However I loaded the mod about 10 minutes ago and it's not up yet.
About 3 days ago I loaded the mod at 11 pm, and it was up somewhere between then and 6:30 Am.
When it was up, the main screen looked different and said Gold on it, but nothing new other than that. When I closed it out there was an error message that quickly disappeared.

So any ideas on what's happening?

EDIT: It came up about 7 minutes ago. The only thing different was the main screen. So I went to advanced and downloaded the update, hopefully that'll fix something.

 

[Agent327]

However I loaded the mod about 10 minutes ago and it's not up yet.

About this: I've been fiddling around with PAK a bit and was wondering what specifically would need PAKed to decrease load times?

 

[Fierabras]

...

So any ideas on what's happening?

EDIT: It came up about 7 minutes ago. The only thing different was the main screen. So I went to advanced and downloaded the update, hopefully that'll fix something.

Make sure you update to BTS 3.13. That will fix your problem of loading the modular parts of this mod (and most of it is modular)

 

[Fierabras]

Currently preparing an update on 1066 AD for CIV Gold BTS, I came across the following.

Civpedia entry missing:
- Cochise
- Daar
- Donnaconma
- Ramkhamhaen
- Sunni*
- Tecumseh
- Wovoka.

Also:
-Sitting Bull is featured twice (as Sitting Bull & Tatanka) with no reference to the 2nd
- Cuza lived 1820-1973 (Civpedia entry)
- Leonidas shows up in a purple helmet on my comp
- Shakuohain shows up entirely purple on my comp.

* Sunni caused a CTD when trying to include him in the scenario.

I'm not sure in which way you came across these missing pedia entries, but these are not missing!

We only disabled Sitting Bull (and Native American civ), we did not remove it form the game, therefore it shows in the pedia twice.

Thanks for the report on Cuza. We'll fix that typo.

The graphical issues are likely related to something on your comp (graphical card? drivers?).

If you have CTD's (or other problems, like with including Karl for Sweden) when including something in your scenarios, first make sure that you haven't made a mistake yourself, before you post in this thread.

 

[Fierabras]

About this: I've been fiddling around with PAK a bit and was wondering what specifically would need PAKed to decrease load times?

- Move hundreds of Mb's of art files to Assets/Art
- Rewrite thousands of art file paths in XML

My estimation: it will reduce loading time by half.

 

[Agent327]

I'm not sure in which way you came across these missing pedia entries, but these are not missing!

We only disabled Sitting Bull (and Native American civ), we did not remove it form the game, therefore it shows in the pedia twice.

Thanks for the report on Cuza. We'll fix that typo.

The graphical issues are likely related to something on your comp (graphical card? drivers?).

If you have CTD's (or other problems, like with including Karl for Sweden) when including something in your scenarios, first make sure that you haven't made a mistake yourself, before you post in this thread.

The Civpedia entries are missing in-game: I clicked through the entire Leader list and for the ones mentioned there was nothing (and as you can imagine I have patch 2 installed). I don't know why this is, I just report it.

I also know Sitting Bull is the standard LH for Native America, I just mentioned if you don't check out Tatanka, you'll never know they're one and the same.

The graphical issues I figured where what they appear to be...

I try and include CIV Gold LHs as much I can; if I can't find the error, I feel I need to report this. (For the Karl XII LH I'm still grateful, but as I mentioned before, I couldn't figure out what the error was - I still don't know.)

If you feel you're being overwhelmed with erroneous error reports, I'm sorry - that's not my intention. (What I mentioned I just came across in one CIV Gold session - which felt kind of alarming. If some of these "errors" can be set straight, all the better.)

On the PAK issue: if the loading time will only be halved, I think I'll pass on this one - sorry!

 

[Fierabras]

Could you give me some insight in how you are modding? Are you working mainly with Worldbuilder or do you also edit with a text-editor? I'm just having a hard time understanding what you report, like: if it's scenario source related or CIV Gold source related. If I get some insight, it's easier for me to help you with your problems. Could also give a spec from your hardware (OS, RAM, graphic card)?

When you say in-game do you mean when you have loaded your scenario or just loaded CIV Gold?

EDIT: on the PAKKING possibility, I only want to do that when I can do it as an entire batch. Moving and rewriting all those files will take too long. I have to remove redundant files first anyway to reduce loading time more.

 

[Agent327]

Can only provide a partial answer (as I'm not home right now and don't know my comp specs* by heart): so far I've only used WBS editing. The errors reported occur after I include an LH (like Sunni) - which is ofcourse not to say it isn't my fault. (With Sunni I only tried using him as a LH for Mali in 1066 AD for CIV Gold BTS; the WBS file before worked fine, but I'm not sure if I kept the error file. I'd have to check.)

With in-game I mean just that; after making an alteration to a working WBS file, I always check by loading the scenario with the altered file. Then I repeat these steps til I've got the alterations I need in - or skip the ones that produce an error. (As with 1066 AD for CIV Gold BTS there aren't really any civs to include from the mod, I thought it'd be nice to include some extra LHs. Since Sunni wasn't essential to the scenario, I just skipped using him. But ofcourse if no one has reported a Sunni-related error, chances are the fault is entirely mine.)

On the PAK issue: I appreciate your reply and realize the load of work connected with changing all those files. Though I wouldn't mind helping out with moving files if you could be more specific about the Art files that need to be moved to Assets/Art, cutting the load time may just not be worth the effort required. (I also realized from the PAK utility that the size of Civ itself would be much bigger without PAKing! I need the PAK to add woodelf's units to MOO2Civ - being my first modding experience.)

*Will get back to you on this.

EDIT: system specs read: Celeron 2.66 GHz, 504 MB. (Using Intel Extreme Graphics with Low Res, Single Graphics as suggested after installing BtS.)

 

[Massaker]

I got it to work!
So after 12 minutes in comes up.
And I look through the civilopedia for 40 minutes to pick a civ to roll with. (Ended up between Castro and Ho Chi Minh, HCM won).
Then I spent a few minutes making a custom game, trying to include everyone from the '70s. (It was hard considering it isn't in alphabetical order)
Then I start game.
It's finishing,
and then god! An error message! Something about graphics being too high or something. I click out of it hoping that it will let me continue, GOD a C++ error! Well maybe it'd let me continue. No. I just heard a pulsing sound for 8 minutes while I tried to use task manager to close out of the nonresponsive program.
I couldnt close it so I shut down my compy, making this the first time that a game crashed my computer.

So do you guys know about those errors/how to correct them?
I would offer a screenshot, but perhaps the image didn't carry over from restarting the computer.

Sorry to keep bugging you, but I am excited about this mod, and am hoping that somehow I can make Vietnam into the super power and the US into a quagmire.

 

[Forcystus]

I believe there is multiple files missing from the XML folder when I downloaded v.4
Can you upload that folder?

 

[Agent327]

XML files missing, eh? I smell a rat!

 

[Fierabras]

I got it to work!
So after 12 minutes in comes up.
And I look through the civilopedia for 40 minutes to pick a civ to roll with. (Ended up between Castro and Ho Chi Minh, HCM won).
Then I spent a few minutes making a custom game, trying to include everyone from the '70s. (It was hard considering it isn't in alphabetical order)
Then I start game.
It's finishing,
and then god! An error message! Something about graphics being too high or something. I click out of it hoping that it will let me continue, GOD a C++ error! Well maybe it'd let me continue. No. I just heard a pulsing sound for 8 minutes while I tried to use task manager to close out of the nonresponsive program.
I couldnt close it so I shut down my compy, making this the first time that a game crashed my computer.

So do you guys know about those errors/how to correct them?
I would offer a screenshot, but perhaps the image didn't carry over from restarting the computer.

Sorry to keep bugging you, but I am excited about this mod, and am hoping that somehow I can make Vietnam into the super power and the US into a quagmire.

I'm afraid your computer (or parts of it) is not good enough to run this big mod. Your description of the error sounds like a problem with graphical card memory.

I believe there is multiple files missing from the XML folder when I downloaded v.4
Can you upload that folder?

No, there are no files missing. Make sure you have updated your BTS version to 3.13.

XML files missing, eh? I smell a rat!

...then take a shower

 

[Wyz_sub10]

I got it to work!
So after 12 minutes in comes up.
And I look through the civilopedia for 40 minutes to pick a civ to roll with. (Ended up between Castro and Ho Chi Minh, HCM won).
Then I spent a few minutes making a custom game, trying to include everyone from the '70s. (It was hard considering it isn't in alphabetical order)
Then I start game.
It's finishing,
and then god! An error message! Something about graphics being too high or something. I click out of it hoping that it will let me continue, GOD a C++ error! Well maybe it'd let me continue. No. I just heard a pulsing sound for 8 minutes while I tried to use task manager to close out of the nonresponsive program.
I couldnt close it so I shut down my compy, making this the first time that a game crashed my computer.

So do you guys know about those errors/how to correct them?
I would offer a screenshot, but perhaps the image didn't carry over from restarting the computer.

Sorry to keep bugging you, but I am excited about this mod, and am hoping that somehow I can make Vietnam into the super power and the US into a quagmire.

Aargh. That sucks.

Further to Fierabras' comments, what are you PC specs?

- processor
- RAM
- graphics card

You could always try to update the graphics card driver, then go to Options for CIV IV and turn down all the graphics settings.

 

[Agent327]

...then take a shower

Shouldn't the rat do that? (I smell something fishy...)

 

[Nekator]

Ok, i have the following problem.

When i play Civ Gold i can only load once every time i play it.
At the second time i load any game i always get a memory bad allocation error.

Now i already know that this is no really uncommon error, but without a working solution as far as i have searched the boards. Do you guys maybe have any recommandation, since for me it seems only to happen with Civ Gold.

Or at least, what do i have to do to auto load civ gold mod at start ?

thanks in advance!

 

[Wyz_sub10]

Ok, i have the following problem.

When i play Civ Gold i can only load once every time i play it.
At the second time i load any game i always get a memory bad allocation error.

Now i already know that this is no really uncommon error, but without a working solution as far as i have searched the boards. Do you guys maybe have any recommandation, since for me it seems only to happen with Civ Gold.

Or at least, what do i have to do to auto load civ gold mod at start ?

thanks in advance!

In the CIV4Config.ini file (in the Beyond the Sword directory)

find:

; Specify a Mod folder (Mods\Mesopotamia), '0' for none
Mod = 0

and change it to:

; Specify a Mod folder (Mods\Mesopotamia), '0' for none
Mod = CIV Gold

That will load CIV Gold automatically every time you start the game.