FFH and 3.19

[lastofthelight]

Question.

I recently did a total reinstall of Civ 4, including all the expansions, and all the mods I play. I installed the official 3.19 patch, and then downloaded FFH 2, and then patch i and the media pack, and then Planetfall.

Planetfall works fine. But whenever I click on the FFH 2 shortcut, the game crashes. Not immediately, but right after I pick my Civ Leader. I can get into the game creation menu, but not the real game. It gets through all of the initialization/loading screen, then goes to display the map...and the game crashes. I tried to do a search to find out what was going on, but didn't come up with anything that I thought was applicable. I'm sure this is some stupid mistake, and I'm hoping you guys can quickly correct me, because FFH2 is half the reason I play Civ 4.

 

[Sephi]

do you have the latest patch (i)? there was a similar issue to what you describe in patch c.

 

[lastofthelight]

According to my readme:


Fall from Heaven 2
Version 0.41i

 

[CurseUppl]

Computer specs?

 

[lastofthelight]

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name YOUR-4DACD0EA75
System Manufacturer HP Pavilion 061
System Model EX333AA-ABA m7590n
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 6 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~3200 Mhz
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 6 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~3200 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.19, 12/8/2006
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name YOUR-4DACD0EA75\Test Account
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 2,048.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 1.20 GB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 3.85 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys


I'm pretty sure the problem has nothing to do with my computer specs however. I've run this mod on this computer before.

 

[Dash5]

Are you starting the game through Custom Game or Play now? at one point the Play Now would cause crashes but custom game wouldnt, but that hasnt happened for a long time (for me anyway)

Edit- the crashes werent common, but just happened to me every once in a while.

 

[Kael]

It really sounds like like you have a mismatch between your civ4 version and ffh version.

When you go into Advanced -> About this Build what Civ Version do you see listed?

In your Mods/Fall from Heaven 2/ directory do you have a resource directory?

 

[lastofthelight]

Yes, I have a resource directory.

Civ Version 3.1.9.0.

And I've been using Play Now.

 

[Kael]

Hmm...

Where did you get Civ4 from (Steam, boxed copies, civ4 complete, direct2drive, etc)?

When you go into the pedia (from the main menu) can you see unit graphics?

Have you tried disabling movies (done in the CivilizationIV.ini file)?

 

[lastofthelight]

I found the problem! I have no idea WHY its a problem, but I have definitely figured it out.


So, the problem was this: My operating system is an HP build of Windows Media Center 2005. Its err...slightly unstable at times, mostly because HP packed literally 70 gigs of bloatware on the install disk. So anyways, I lost my registry and just reinstalled Civ4/the expansions right over the old installation. I then reinstalled the mods.

This worked fine for Civ 4/BTS and all the other mods I use, but not this one. I physically removed the directory/uninstalled Civ 4, then reinstalled, then reinstalled the mod, and now it works fine.

Thanks for all the help guys!