Harkonen's patch and official patch v1.52

[The_badger]

Civ IV release date announced.... great anticipation..... almost ripped posties hand off when it arrived... Installed with grin on face..... shock... confusion... all black maps and strange disembodied eyes thing going on.... anger... nashing of teeth.... New graphics card.... it ran ... hope..... crushed.... anger ... it crashed, and crashed and crashed!... Patched it with 1.09...... It still ran terrible.... then I saw the light of salvation... Harkonnen's patch.... Praise be for all is well!

It's run OK since - not on full graphics but it runs and I can enjoy a game.

Now the new patch is out and I am filled with trepidation - I've read the bit on the front page of Civfanatics about the "unooficial patches being Bad, evil, nasty things" according to firaxis but for some reason I don't believe them!

So what to do - do I install the new official patch with Harkonnens still loaded? Does it still work?

Is there a new version of Harkonnen's patch?

Does the new official patch do all the things Harkonnens patch did?

Help!

 

[pdathert]

my friends worked better with harkonnens patch than the official

 

[Zydor]

Harkonnen is currently working on a V1.52 patch, his previous patch will not operate under V1.52 - in terms of additional benefits. You should uninstall his patch and install Patch V1.52. Substantial changes were made to the memory management, and some significant changes to some aspects of the game which will only show with the official patch.

Re the rumour about Firaxis opinion of Harks work - it was false from the start, and unfortunately spread hard and fast due to the "bandwagon" effect - everyone loves a drama, manufactured or not, in this case manufactured....

There have been a few posts from Soren & Mustapha on the topic - they regularly visit the Forum, and do post when appropriate. Hopefully the most recent will kill off the so called conflict for good - because there never was any ....

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=146309&page=48 Post 951

Regards
Zy

 

[Neon Deon]

Harkonnen is currently working on a V1.52 patch, his previous patch will not operate under V1.52 - in terms of additional benefits. You should uninstall his patch and install Patch V1.52. Substantial changes were made to the memory management, and some significant changes to some aspects of the game which will only show with the official patch.

Re the rumour about Firaxis opinion of Harks work - it was false from the start, and unfortunately spread hard and fast due to the "bandwagon" effect - everyone loves a drama, manufactured or not, in this case manufactured....

There have been a few posts from Soren & Mustapha on the topic - they regularly visit the Forum, and do post when appropriate. Hopefully the most recent will kill off the so called conflict for good - because there never was any ....

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=146309&page=48 Post 951

Regards
Zy

So who really killed JFK?

I think it was an MI6 plot!!!

 

[Zydor]

Nah - it was Lord Lucan ......

(For our Colonial cousins across the pond .... http://www.lordlucan.com/ )

Regards
Zy