Help with installing BTS

[JackCannonHound]

For some reason, every time i try to install BTS, i get this:

 

[ori]

did you try copying the cd contents to your harddrive and running the install from there?

 

[NormanTodd]

This is precisely the error that I'm having right now, although it gets more than 2/3 of the way through before crashing. I have Civ 4 Gold installed on Vista. I have just tried copying everything on the BTS CDs and running the installation from there, but it changes nothing. Any other suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[ori]

welcome to cfc

does civ4 gold work well? could you post what the windows event manager shows for the failed install?

 

[NormanTodd]

I've never had a problem with Civ4 Gold, and it still works fine (although the v174 patch refuses to recognize that Civ4 is installed, something which seems to have been a common complaint - I have v172, and I'm not sure if that really is different from v174; probably not relevant anyway). I'm not familiar with the Windows Event Manager - do you mean Task Manager? It doesn't say much of anything. After the catastrophic failure, the program hangs, and Windows tells me a few moments later that it is shutting it down.

Thanks for the welcome...

 

[ori]

there is a problem with gold edition (it is patched to 1.74 but uses a false registry entry) that prevents it from working properly with the bts installer.
are you familiar with registry editing?

 

[NormanTodd]

No, I don't know squat about registry editing...

 

[ori]

I am busy right now - so I won't post a complete set of instructions now. If I do not do so by tonight, remind me

 

[NormanTodd]

Well, here's a reminder. Thanks for this; if there is a solution to this, it would be good to get it online, as it seems plenty of people have had my problem, but no solution has been posted anywhere. There's even a thread on the 2k site with lots of complaints but no reply.

 

[ori]

have a look through the thread below and the thread I link to in there - if you have any questions ask. DO NOT use regedit if you are unsure about anything

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=7026949

 

[NormanTodd]

I went into regedit, renamed "Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Gold" so that the "Gold" was no longer there, then added a new key, so that I now have the following:

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

This is the only thing under Firaxis Games, other than a couple of other files under "Sid Meier's Civilization 4", and removing the word "Gold" does change things: now when I try to install BTS, it tells me that a newer version of Civ is available, which it never used to do, and then the patch fails to install, causing the installation to quit.

I also tried leaving the word "Gold" in there with the new 1.74 key, and in that case, installation continued as before, until the good old "Catastrophic Failure." Is there something else I'm missing here?

Thanks.

 

[ori]

I am puzzled - I won't have time to post more this weekend - but I will post something on monday, I just cannot promise that I can think of anything better

 

[samson01234]

Question, I've reinsatlled BTS but there are no python or assets folders in for mods?

 

[NormanTodd]

Well, I'm beginning to think I may just have a bad CD. Will look into getting a replacement copy, and report back if it works...

Thanks...

 

[ori]

Question, I've reinsatlled BTS but there are no python or assets folders in for mods?

I do not quite understand the problem, could you repeat this

 

[NormanTodd]

BTW, I got a new CD of BTS, and it works. Looks like I had a bad CD. Thanks again.