Help installing BTS

I have Civ IV installed. When I try to install BTS, it tells me that 1) "there's a newer version of Civ IV available -- installing now." Then it tells me "The patch failed to install. Aborting installation!" I have downloaded both the 161 and 174 patches, but when I try to install those, it tells me that "the setup has detected that no version of Civ IV has been installed. This update requires that a previous version of the application be installed."

Help, please!

 

I am having this exact same problem, and am growing rather desperate for a solution. Does anyone have anything? perhaps a way of "fooling" the installer into thinking the game is already installed (which it is) and up to patch?

 

I don't know about the OP, but I bought civ 4 gold, as well as Beyond the Sword on PC CD. Installing gold edition works fine, but Beyond the sword fails to install in the same way as the OP.

 

I never installed the 161 patch. Just went from retail version to 174. Didn't have any problems with it..

 

alright, I'll do anything to try and get this to work. Here goes:

In Hkey_Classes_Root
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Civ4Replay
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Civ4SavedGame
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Civ4SavedGame\ShellEx
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Civ4SavedGame\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Civ4WorldBuilderSave
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.CivWarlordsReplay
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.CivWarlordsSave
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.CivWarlordsSave\ShellEx
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.CivWarlordsSave\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.CivWarlordsWBSave

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firaxis Games
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\1.09
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Gold
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Gold\1.72

That last bit looks like it actually has an obsolete patch written into it. Is there any way I can change that value to read 1.74? Would deleting it help?

 

I just renamed that file to 1.74. The patch is now installing. Thank you for all your help.

 

Moment of truth time now... I'm playing it...

IT WORKS! IT WORKS AWESOMELY!

Never been so glad to hear Spock talking to me.

 

Thank you so much for this thread!!! I bought BtS a couple nights ago and I've been dieing to play it but everything I've tried to get it to install wasn't working. D2D support said I had to contact the distributor of the Civ 4 that I have. I was beginning to lose hope....then I came across this and check the registry keys and I went in and changed the patch from 1.74.00000 to just plain 1.74 and BtS i has finally installed!!! I'm so excited to get to finally play my beloved Civilzation.

 

A clarification after further experimentation: the registry key you need to have is this one:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\1.74

this one will not cut it:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Gold\1.74

if you just installed gold edition, either edit the registry entry to delete the word "gold" or create a new one without it.

I'm glad to have served the community. please spread this solution far and wide.

 

i cant find the Hkey_Classes_Root file
can someone help me
D:

 

It's under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. You can also just search for Firaxis with the registry's built in search.

 

It dosent work. When i go under it. it already says i have 1.74 and i try to install BtS i get the same error messgae.

 

are you seeing this one:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\1.74
Or this one:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Gold\1.74

 

it dosent say, this is all it says (i just took a pic of what it dose)
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r278/Tbone4500/yeah.jpg

 

You may want to delete the entries like 1.09 and the others that don't read 1.74