Civ4 BTS & Vista Issues

[sc123]

I have read through a number of threads and the sparse Firaxis/2K support sites and haven't found any answers, so here goes!

-I have Civ4 at v1.61
-I have BTS at v3.17
-Running Windows Vista Ultimate, SP1
-Running GeForce 8600GT with latest drivers
-Running Sound Blaster X-Fi with latest drivers

I've apparently resolved one issue - the game used to only launch about 25% of the time I tried to run it. It would just execute and appear in the Task Manager, but would stop there. Nothing appeared on the screen, or at most it would get to "Init MP..." and stall.

I resolved this by enabling logging. I have no idea why, but after I enabled logging it now launches 100% of the time! This is what my CivilizationIV.ini file looks like now:

; Enable the logging system
LoggingEnabled = 1

; Enable synchronization logging
SynchLog = 0

; Overwrite old network and message logs
OverwriteLogs = 1

; Enable rand event logging
RandLog = 1

; Enable message logging
MessageLog = 1

So that seems to have resolved my loading issue, but I still cannot run the mods (BTS specific content). I'm specifically trying Final Frontier, and it just closes BTS and nothing happens. I can still see the process in Task Manager, but nothing ever happens. Does anyone have any thoughts?

 

[sc123]

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Linthead]

I have almost the same problem... I can run BTS vanilla now... even though I do get the occasional "BTS has stopped working" crash, but no mods work at all. I have sent MPLogs to some mod makers and one said he may have found a solution, but until he updates his mod and I can try it out we won't know.

 

[ori]

does the windows event manager contain any error message?

 

[sc123]

does the windows event manager contain any error message?

I'm guessing you mean Event Viewer - and no, it doesn't.

 

[ori]

try the following:
open civilizationIV.ini and change the line that says
mod = 0 to the name of the mod you want to start, i.e.
mod = Mods\ModName
then start the game - does this load the mod?