Error Installing BTS

[CanuckCiver]

Howdy, Long time civ fanatic, first time poster.

I haven't had many problems installing civ in the past, I've been playing ever since CIV I when the settlers doubled as workers.

I visiting home for xmas and to save myself from boredom I went out and purchased a fresh copy of Civ 4 and BTS just for the heck of it.

I installed CIV 4 with no problems, loaded up the game and was able to start..again no problems.

I exited the game and installed BTS, When i tried to start I got a DLL error, no problem found the DLL online and was able to continue, now as the game was loading, just as it was saying "init engine" I got the error "Error Loading Shared Libraries"

arrgh. Couldn't find anything online about it. So I uninstalled BTS and tried to load just the regular CIV 4 - and I received the same error! The computer wouldn't even let me uninstall CIV 4 - so I did a system restore and now here I am asking for help.

If you have any insight please share your knowledge.
Cheers, Peace, Thanks in advance.

 

[ori]

Welcome to CFC

the error with the shader libraries is the same as the error with the dll - you just did not fix it by just downloading the dll, you need to get the newest DirectX 9c release from Microsoft.

After that you should update Beyond the Sword to 3.13 (use the ingame patcher).

 

[CanuckCiver]

Ah, bless your heart, I am in the middle of downloading the Directx 9c, then lets all cross our fingers as I try to reinstall bts.

 

[CanuckCiver]

Huzzah, it works... Cheers Ori!