Crash when launching BtS

[civistys]

Hi,
I seem to be unable to install the Better AI mod. I've tried both methods, copying to the assets folder and installing as a mod. I've tried versions 0.50, 0.45 and 0.37, each of them behave in the same way. I'm using Windows XP, 32-bit.

- If I copy all the files to the Bts/Assets folder, the game loading goes until it reaches "Init XML (uncached)", and just silently closes after that.

- If I create a new mod folder AND copy the CvGameCoreDLL.dll to BtS/Assets, the same thing happens. If I don't duplicate the dll, BtS load fine but crashes when I try to activate the mod.

Any ideas what could be wrong? Is there any way to debug this?

BR,
civistys

 

[glider1]

Just a couple of points to start out on. I'm assuming that you can run a standard BTS 3.17 game no problem. You don't have to create a mod folder. There is already one created for you during installation at /my documents/my games/beyond the sword/MODS/ (or similar). This is the directory where you should simply unzip the better bts mod into. When you do this there should be a folder called .../mod/Better BTS AI/. I'm assuming that you know how to load a mod from the game screen itself. The idea is to not fiddle with the base installation of the game. Hope that helps.
Cheers.

 

[civistys]

Thanks for the reply! I was doing the steps correctly but I just didn't have the BtS 3.17 patch. The game launches fine after installing that.

I didn't notice any comments about the required patch in the installation instructions, maybe that would be good to include in the .txt file?