FfH (or BTS for that matter) won't run AT ALL

[Kyroshill]

So after we old computer died.... I spent 1/2 the day Saturday patching up BTS and installing FfH and patching up... and got started and played in an MP game fro a few hours.

Now though...when I try to run FfH, or even just BTS.... I get the working cursor for a few seconds... and that's it.... nada....nothing..... running Task Manager shows that the program never attempts to run.....

Any ideas short of having to fresh install the entire game each time I wanna play? (assuming THAT even works)

I'm on Vista with this machine and UAC is turned off....

Any help is appreciated

Update: A fresh install of BTS allowed me to run BTS.... but only once.... when I exited BTS.... I cannot run it again..... system makes no attempt

 

[Kael]

No idea on that one, sorry. I doubt there is anything we can do at the FfH layer if BtS is exhibiting problems.

 

[Shadow World]

I have the same issue, and have had it for a long time. Usually I end process in task manager and restart over and over. For me it stops initiation around 20,000 k. The cpu just bombs out and it's like the computer just forgot about it. I really think this is a vista issue. All you can really do is watch it in task manager and when the cpu hits zero for civ end process and start over, until it get's past what ever point it's trying to load. It's really anoying :/

 

[Kyroshill]

I think Ori had the solution.... though I jumped the gun and went out and bought the CD version before I saw his answer.

His suggestion was to right-click when installing BTS, and Install as Administrator, instead of a standard install.

Probably would have worked, had I tried it.... but impatience got the better of me