Civ4 BTS Patch v3.13 is up

I have BTS installed. I have downloaded the 3.13 patch. When trying to install the patch (just after installshield has finished preparing) it claims I have no copy of BTS installed and aborts.
This is in the tech support section about every week. You might [search] there and find discussions that help you resolve this quickly. Here's a question though ... did you mix retail/oem/digitaldownload products in any way?
 
Is there ever going to be an Official patch after 3.13?

Or is it all done now that Bhruic has the UOP 3.13 version 1.21 patch out?

JosEPh
 
"Insiders" keep claiming there's a patch in the works. Who knows when it'll get it though.

Wodan
 
Well, with the news that Firaxis is going to release CIV IV Colonization in the Fall and the other projects they have going, if I were to bet.......... my money says ain't gonna happen. Well I'm not gonna hold my breath. :/

JosEPh
 
Will a patch involve changes and tweaks to traits like Imperialistic or does that only happen in expansions?
 
Will a patch involve changes and tweaks to traits like Imperialistic or does that only happen in expansions?

We don't even know if there'll be a patch yet, much less if it'll be worth using instead of Bhuic's. I think it's rare for patches to affect things like traits though, unless they're wildly unbalanced.
 
I've read quite a few of these message concerning this new patch. I've downloaded the patch (high spped connection that took very little time), but I'm not going to install it (just yet). I've read a variety of reveiws, pro, cons, praises and complaints. I have none of the special mods, but my concern is the post from a guy that now has problems playing multi-player games. That is ALL we do!. We play over our home LAN between 2,3 or 4 of us, along with several of the AI players. The only problem we have had so far is one game simply crashed do to some sort of 'exeption error'. That game is no longer playable. No mater what we do, within that game, as soon as we hit that particular turn, the game crashes, sends the error message to Microsoft and then the game completely exits on all the computers to the desk top (each computer has it's own BTS game disk/CD inserted). It is on the Archipelago map. It is not the map, as we've played games using this same map all the way to completion with NO problems. I was hoping the patch would fix crashes like that, but apparently it does not (from what I've read) so I do not plan on using it. Based on what I've read in the forum posts, it seems to have it's own problems associated with it. So far, I've read of no one that was able to 'uninstall' the patch, if they didn't like it

My game (on all computers) comes up with the following message, whenever we go to the Multiplay menue:

"New Patch Available" "An update is available. Would you like to get it?" "Patch name: Patch_v317" Then it gives you the choice of "install' or "cancel". If you hit cancel, yo just go on into the multiplayer set up scene and start you game. If you select "install", it freezes you out of the game unitl it is finished. The problem is, that after 3 days it still isn't finished!!!! I have a cable connection, so what gives? What is this patch and why does it not download/install?

Our computers are all Intel dual processor quad core with high level NIVIDIA graphics cards and 8 G or high speed ram, connected to a high speed cable internet connection, using the Windows XP operating system.

Older versions of Civilization (III and even IV) allowed you to easily create maps with "World Builder", out side the game and then play on these maps in Multiplayer games. BTS doesn't seem to allow this, as you can never seem to find the maps and the 'World Builder' only is accessed from the game. It is locked out in multiplayer mode.
 
You definitely want the BTS 3.17 patch.

Welcome to the Forums ssw820. :beer:
 
3.17 is the most recent BtS patch, but the automatic updater for it is bugged (and it would be nice if they acknowledged it and fixed it...) It'll just sit there not really downloading it indefinitely.

You'll have to download it manually, and then install it - there must be a link to it on this site somewhere.
 
i try to install civ bts patch v 3.13 but when i click install some error is appearing what i can do to fix that? i installed civ bts patch v3.03 before!?
 
First, I'd ask why you're trying to patch the game with an older patch? The latest patch is 3.19 and you don't need to install the earlier patches first.
 
i trying because i dont have older patch and that might give me a problem because i dont have older patch?
 
My advice would be to not even worry about which patch you should apply in which order.. just let the game update itself - ie. from the main menu, go to 'Advanced', then 'Check for Updates'.

Which would be bad advice. The ingame updater is broken and shouldn't be used. Alot of people have had trouble updating the game with it, and have had to download/install the standalone version instead.
 
Ok. Fair enough. I've used the ingame updater exclusively without any problems; on a few different computers, both vanilla and bts, for a few different updates. But if it's common for it to screw up, then I guess I was just lucky.
 
k, the newest patch had better fix the critical files do not match error...
 
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