Civ4 BTS Patch v3.13 is up

[_alphaBeta_]

I noticed the game tips and spy unit both say that spies thwart rival spies now. Any clue exactly how this works? Do your spies have to be on the same tile as the rival, or do they "cover" all adjacent tiles. Are they worth putting in every city?

 

[Nemeton]

Part of the problem is that a lot of the crash reports are because people are using a crack that apparently is "bad". This is making diagnosing other people's (non-crack users) problems much more difficult.

Bh

Well some people, myself included dont have a normal DVD in the laptop - I have an external drive that I have to plug in to use and I dont usually take that with me and I also dont carry it with me when I go into the living room to watch TV and play - so I am pretty hooked on a NO DVD crack. And I seriously dont understand why the hell they dont make the games so you can play them without a CD/DVD

 

[Psyringe]

Well some people, myself included dont have a normal DVD in the laptop - I have an external drive that I have to plug in to use and I dont usually take that with me and I also dont carry it with me when I go into the living room to watch TV and play - so I am pretty hooked on a NO DVD crack. And I seriously dont understand why the hell they dont make the games so you can play them without a CD/DVD

Well, Stardock does, and is quite successful with it. The deal there is that you need a unique serial number to access patches and support. So they don't need any on-CD copy protection because a copied CD is rather worthless if you don't have a unique serial number.

Anyway, the situation Bhruic described is very real: People who use modified executables are a nightmare fo someone trying to find and analyze bugs. If I'd use a modified exe (for whatever reason), and experience crashes after a patch, the first thing I'd do is to revert to the unmodified exe and see whether the problems still exist.

 

[Todd Hawks]

Besides, if you really feel like it's too much hassle to use a DVD, you could easily have gotten the Steam or D2D version of the game.

 

[Sebastian Piotr]

I downloaded the patch press ok for start installation and nothing happen. I download this patch manually on hard disk to different section click on him and I have communicate "program error". Anyone else has this same problem?

Last time I added a lot of mods that maybe a reason of this problem?

 

[Lobsang1979]

I downloaded the patch press ok for start installation and nothing happen. I download this patch manually on hard disk to different section click on him and I have communicate "program error". Anyone else has this same problem?

Last time I added a lot of mods that maybe a reason of this problem?

Have you tried uninstalling the game, completely erasing the \Program Files\Firaxis folder after uninstall, reinstalling the game and patching up again?

Also, are you using the DVD versio or the Steam/Direct2Drive version?

 

[bunsybuns]

I am having a strange situation. When I logged to Gamespy to play over the net, the patch started to download automatically. I finished the download and installed the game.

But since that time i can not log to game spy anymore, I used the explorer and logged in there normally, BUT i cant log anymore from the "Multiplayer" in BTS. !!!!! so basically now, I cant play over the internet !!! anyone knows the solution? or did it happen before?

 

[Mr_V]

I've just installed the patch, ran it, and it runs fine, though... I go to Advanced, and then - "About this build", and the info is somewhat confusing... it says that the CIV version is 313, all right, but the BUILD version is (still?) 3.0.0.1.

Could anyone verify if this is OK, please?

Cheers

 

[Azazell]

I've just installed the patch, ran it, and it runs fine, though... I go to Advanced, and then - "About this build", and the info is somewhat confusing... it says that the CIV version is 313, all right, but the BUILD version is (still?) 3.0.0.1.

Could anyone verify if this is OK, please?

Cheers

I this the Same .. is oK !

 

[Mr_V]

Thanks!...

 

[I play 4 fun]

this patch is horrible. It completely ***** up multiplayer online games. A certain number of people become out of sync (oos) at the start of the game and no matter how many times the rejoin they always become oos in the game.
This completely wrecks the Online part of the game.

They must fix this problem fast else it will kill a huge part of civ.

 

[Bhruic]

So far everyone who has had that problem has been able to eliminate it by making sure all players do a complete uninstall/reinstall cycle. Not a prefered solution, but it works.

Bh

 

[jray]

Besides, if you really feel like it's too much hassle to use a DVD, you could easily have gotten the Steam or D2D version of the game.

And be forced to adopt every patch coming from Firaxis? No deal . I'd rather deal with the DVD hassle and have the freedom to revert to an older more stable version.

 

[Shigga]

I cannot use profiles that contain things like [ * or ] in the name... I can create them but I cannot save the settings on the profile. When I reload the game the old settings are still enabled though it states the correct profile.

First I thought it was the write protection for the game files but I disabled it on all of em. When I use a profile without any brackets and stuff it works like a charm. Can anybody confirm this? Then I can post it in the bug forum. thx!

Could be a general cIV thing tho.

 

[jray]

I cannot use profiles that contain things like [ * or ] in the name... I can create them but I cannot save the settings on the profile. When I reload the game the old settings are still enabled though it states the correct profile.

First I thought it was the write protection for the game files but I disabled it on all of em. When I use a profile without any brackets and stuff it works like a charm. Can anybody confirm this? Then I can post it in the bug forum. thx!

Could be a general cIV thing tho.

I'm not familiar with the problem, but yeah, I'd say post it in the bug forum. If special characters are a problem, then they should be excluded from profile names in the first place.

 

[only1shot]

Is there a patch that works with the downloaded version of bts, I started installing the patch and its not working

 

[Psyringe]

Steam and Direct2Drive have their respective versions of the patch online, just follow their instructions.

 

[only1shot]

thanks for the info

 

[JesusOnEez]

I've read the change list and maybe I missed it but the most annoying aspect of BTS still exists as far as I can tell.

With the city gov turned off, when the Worker makes an improvement, the city will work that improvement. For example, stop working a 4 gold cottage for the newly built one.

Most annoying..anyone know if that's been fixed?

 

[Martinus]

Can't vote on a winner if one team already has all the votes necessary to win

Nice - this effectively means Diplomatic Victory will stop being a "poor man's domination victory" since you need at least one other civilization to vote for you in order to win the DV.

Btw, I wonder if vassals count as your "team" for this purpose.