Civ IV hangs at 'Init Engine' when loading mods

[aristocles]

Hello,

I recently purchased the new MacBook Air, running OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.1. Normally I would run Civ IV and V in Windows on dual boot, but haven't gotten around to installing Windows over bootcamp yet. I installed Civ IV for the Mac off of Steam, and the game works perfectly. Except anytime I try and load a mod, not counting the mods included with BTS, Civ IV doesn't load, it remains stuck at 'Init Engine', e.g., "[History Rewritten] Init Engine". I've left it at that for over 30 min and nothing happens.

I've tried searching the forum for solutions to this problem, but so far there's nothing. It would be nice if I could play Civ IV natively in OS X. Thanks in advance for the help.

 

[AlanH]

Hi, welcome.

Have you tried enabling logging and looking at the python error log after a failed attempt?

 

[aristocles]

Thanks for the reply, actually I solved the problem. The issue in the end was that the mod was installed in the incorrect folder.

After enabling logging, I got the following error message:
Load Error

GFC Error: failed to initialize the primary control theme

And was able to find the solution here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=431464