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Okay, first of all, I've been playing Civ IV for years. I've owned both disk and DD versions, playing DD version only now.
I originally bought Vanilla and BTS on Direct2Drive. D2D was bought out by Gamefly not long ago. Gamefly took some time to transition over many of the games including Civ IV, but you could still download the old D2D versions and install. However, they did not have Warlords at all. (I had Warlords on disk).
Recently, Gamefly did get Warlords, so I purchased it. I had to uninstall/reinstall Civ IV completely. The Gamefly version of Civ IV now installs into new directories/folders apparently based on the Civ4 Complete version, although Vanilla/Warlords/BTS are purchased separately, i.e., not actually the complete version.
So, the issue is that saves to not open the game normally anymore. I used to be able to click on any save game and it would open directly into the game, including loading any mod that was applicable. Now all the save does is open Civ 4 to the main menu screen. (Also, note that on install saves are not initially recognized as Civ 4 files. I've seen that before. I just point the save once to the BTS executable)
This is quite annoying. I've tried several things including reinstalling. It might be a registry issue or somewhat related to the fact that a whole new directory system is used.
Interestingly, another member mentioned recently about having the same issue with the Complete version on Steam. His saves do not load directly. It makes me wonder if there is some issue with the Complete version, even though technically that is not the version I have - Gamefly just makes it look that way.
So, I'm interested in knowing if anyone has experienced this issue and if there is a fix.
I originally bought Vanilla and BTS on Direct2Drive. D2D was bought out by Gamefly not long ago. Gamefly took some time to transition over many of the games including Civ IV, but you could still download the old D2D versions and install. However, they did not have Warlords at all. (I had Warlords on disk).
Recently, Gamefly did get Warlords, so I purchased it. I had to uninstall/reinstall Civ IV completely. The Gamefly version of Civ IV now installs into new directories/folders apparently based on the Civ4 Complete version, although Vanilla/Warlords/BTS are purchased separately, i.e., not actually the complete version.
So, the issue is that saves to not open the game normally anymore. I used to be able to click on any save game and it would open directly into the game, including loading any mod that was applicable. Now all the save does is open Civ 4 to the main menu screen. (Also, note that on install saves are not initially recognized as Civ 4 files. I've seen that before. I just point the save once to the BTS executable)
This is quite annoying. I've tried several things including reinstalling. It might be a registry issue or somewhat related to the fact that a whole new directory system is used.
Interestingly, another member mentioned recently about having the same issue with the Complete version on Steam. His saves do not load directly. It makes me wonder if there is some issue with the Complete version, even though technically that is not the version I have - Gamefly just makes it look that way.
So, I'm interested in knowing if anyone has experienced this issue and if there is a fix.
