History Rewritten (Original Thread)
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Thanks, I have a busy weekend but I'll take a look at it after that.
Yes.
Myatt Earth just got its "any civs" version
If anybody could create a set of civs for HR 0.5...
What about an ancient themed map ?
If they go into Starting Points then I can add them. I just don't have the time to include maps otherwise, they create a lot of work for me.
Yep, loading time is now a fraction of what it used to be
twice the game on loading the big earth map it stalled and the mouse became the Windows mouse icon (on windows) I selected Taizong and Chandragupta as leaders
on successful load it seems that the map is the RFC map only without the later resources
on the first game I got working when on the first turn and reloading the save it gave me a memory allocation failure
EDIT: Galleass has redundant requirements, it requires sailing, and optics requires sailing tooz
on successful load it seems that the map is the RFC map only without the later resources
on the first game I got working when on the first turn and reloading the save it gave me a memory allocation failure
EDIT: Galleass has redundant requirements, it requires sailing, and optics requires sailing tooz
I included that map on request, I know very little about it. It is excessively big so it's bound to cause memory issues on all but the most powerful of systems. You'll need to play a smaller size map.
Oops, will fix.
actually now that I got it to work it runs pretty fast, I normally play RFC so I'm actually used to slower speeds, what is horrific is that my machine is a Pentium 4, and with you saying it needs a powerful machine it means something is fundamentally wrong with Mac version 
Good deal. I copied placed it into the private maps folder in the MOD and it works there. The problem is with it just in the Private Maps folder for BTS.
Jarlaxe Baenre
Emperor
That's your computer. I just have to press "Exit to Desktop" and wait 5 seconds.
actually now that I got it to work it runs pretty fast, I normally play RFC so I'm actually used to slower speeds, what is horrific is that my machine is a Pentium 4, and with you saying it needs a powerful machine it means something is fundamentally wrong with Mac version
I'm a bit confused if you are running HR on a Mac, Windows, or Windows emulation. Mac BTS is definitely slower than the Windows version, mostly due to using OpenGL rather than DirectX. However Mac BTS has much better memory management than the Windows version. As I understand it the Windows version throws a Memory Allocation Failure whenever the game tries to use more than 2GB of memory - regardless of how much memory the computer has. A larger map means more leaders, more cities and more units and thus it will hit that 2GB limit much sooner than a smaller map.
Quality of graphics card can also have a very big effect on game speed, much more so than CPU. Additionally, no version of BTS supports multiple core CPUs. Unfortunately this all means that a more recent computer won't always run BTS better, because of the way it's coded.
There's something odd about the way Mac BTS handles the PrivateMaps folders with mods. That's why the mod has to be installed in in the BTS mods folder rather than the Documents mod folder. The included maps just won't work otherwise. I'll add this to the F.A.Q.
I think that's a quirk of Mac BTS and certain systems. I get it sometimes and not other times, with or without mods. It's not just HR. No idea what causes it. I just force quit when it does it.
When does this error appear? When the mod is loading, when the map is generating, or during a game sometime? Does it cause the game to exit or does it keep running? Are you playing as Topiltzin or is he an opponent? Topilitzin is one of 2 leaders that still has missing diplomacy text so it's possibly related to that.
I've been getting a lot of requests and questions about the maps included with History Rewritten. This thread is getting way too long for anyone to read the entire thing to see if they're already been answered so I've added a few entries to the F.A.Q:
Next version I recommend using 7zip as compression, in two minutes it compressed the mod to 356.5mb on fastest which is smaller than zip (413.5mb), if you don't like Terminal than use Keka (open Keka, choose compression then drag file onto Keka in dock) also it's multithread so it works fast
EDIT: just set to maximum compression and it squeezed it down to 254.3mb!
EDIT: just set to maximum compression and it squeezed it down to 254.3mb!
Lachlan
Great Builder of Civs !
I would still prefer 7zip or rar because they are more known 
After all, we cant' deal with the Time, because what we have done, same thing, Time is always lost in any ways
After all, we cant' deal with the Time, because what we have done, same thing, Time is always lost in any ways
Martin79
Warlord
Hi,
I'm in mid game and I crash to desktop every few turns. Was running fine with the previous version.
I'm in mid game and I crash to desktop every few turns. Was running fine with the previous version.
I would still prefer 7zip or rar because they are more known
After all, we cant' deal with the Time, because what we have done, same thing, Time is always lost in any ways
it is 7zip, Keka is a Mac Version with a GUI
If you can post a crash report log or three, Xyth (or I) might be able to work out which area of the mod is causing he problem. Also, some info about which civ you are playing and when the crash occurs - while you are playing your turn, or during the inter-turn time when the AI is playing.
Martin79
Warlord
Hi,
I'm playing Russia on a Huge fractal map. I crash to desktop every 10 turns or so and I don't receive any report like "Memory Bad Allocation". Crash first occurs in Medieval Era, during the inter-turn time when the AI is playing.
The crash reports can be found if you launch /Applications/Utilities/Console.app. Click Show Log List in the toolbar if the list on the left hand side is not visible. scroll down the list in the left column and highlight FILES->~/Library/Logs->CrashReporter->Civilization IV_[date of latest crash]. That should display a lot of text. If you copy and paste the first 20 or 30 lines from this report it may help to show where the software is keeling over.
If you are on a Huge map, it may be worth saying what sort of Mac you are running on, what version of OS X, and how much RAM you have.
Do you have the 3.19 patch installed?
If you are on a Huge map, it may be worth saying what sort of Mac you are running on, what version of OS X, and how much RAM you have.
Do you have the 3.19 patch installed?
