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Wherever there is dropdown picklist, please pick something from the picklist. Therefore, to be on the safe side, there should always be an "and" or an "or" in front of every line.
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Wherever there is dropdown picklist, please pick something from the picklist. Therefore, to be on the safe side, there should always be an "and" or an "or" in front of every line.
Ciceronian
Latin Scholar
Sorry guys, you can kill me for being really stupid now... I hadn't enabled autosave in my preferences!!! How could I be so dumb!!! Now MapFinder works without problems.
Btw, my savutils.dll is version 2.7 for some strange reason.
Btw, my savutils.dll is version 2.7 for some strange reason.
gmaharriet
Ancient Crone
OK, I know I'm doing something really stupid. I just got a new computer with Windows XP (instead of my old Win 2000), and I tried to download Mapfinder. I thought I knew what I was doing, BUT when I'd get an acceptable map, it would ask me if I wanted to overwrite the previous file. 
I looked in the file where I usually save new maps, and it had only 1 .jpeg and 1 .set file and no .sav at all. Here is a pic
This thread is very long, but I recall there were some very specific instructions about where to put the file after downloading, and I'm too lazy to read from page 1 up to here to find it.
Also, it reset the iterations to zero, which may be causing the "overwrite" error. I was up to almost 200,000 iterations before. Is there any way to reset it to that number and go from there?
Golly, I was looking forward to a new speedy computer with a better graphics card, but I've been working for about 10 hours on trying to get everything I used to have downloaded so I can have some fun, and getting very cranky and frustrated.
I LOVE Mapfinder!!! but I think I did something wrong this time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Oh, and BTW, if you see that Save Folder lower in the pic, that was just where I had my IT guy put my old saves temporarily until I could reinstall Civ...not where they will actually be when I finish fixing things (if I ever finish).
Edit to add: For testing purposes I changed the rule set to nothing except AND Rivers > 2, so that I'd get lots of acceptable maps and be able to watch what was happening. Well, I'm getting about 95% maps with rivers and not 1 of them is even trying to save now. I think I'm losing my mind.
I looked in the file where I usually save new maps, and it had only 1 .jpeg and 1 .set file and no .sav at all. Here is a pic
This thread is very long, but I recall there were some very specific instructions about where to put the file after downloading, and I'm too lazy to read from page 1 up to here to find it.
Also, it reset the iterations to zero, which may be causing the "overwrite" error. I was up to almost 200,000 iterations before. Is there any way to reset it to that number and go from there?
Golly, I was looking forward to a new speedy computer with a better graphics card, but I've been working for about 10 hours on trying to get everything I used to have downloaded so I can have some fun, and getting very cranky and frustrated.
I LOVE Mapfinder!!! but I think I did something wrong this time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Oh, and BTW, if you see that Save Folder lower in the pic, that was just where I had my IT guy put my old saves temporarily until I could reinstall Civ...not where they will actually be when I finish fixing things (if I ever finish).
Edit to add: For testing purposes I changed the rule set to nothing except AND Rivers > 2, so that I'd get lots of acceptable maps and be able to watch what was happening. Well, I'm getting about 95% maps with rivers and not 1 of them is even trying to save now. I think I'm losing my mind.
gmaharriet
Ancient Crone
OK, I deleted and reinstalled. Now it's saving, but it keeps trying to overwrite and the screenies of each of the maps it saved look like this.
Argh!!! What am I doing wrong?
Argh!!! What am I doing wrong?
gmaharriet
Ancient Crone
OK, I got it to work now. I went back looking for the original install instructions and found the pic of my drive C directory that I made for Ginger Ale...and it looked different from what I had recently done. I changed the locations of some things to match what I used to have and it's working fine now and runs much faster than it did on my old computer.
Somewhere there is another copy of the program on my HD that I can't locate, but it doesn't seem to interfere. I just got XP and everything looks different , so I have trouble locating files. Ah, the joys of upgrading. 
Somewhere there is another copy of the program on my HD that I can't locate, but it doesn't seem to interfere. I just got XP and everything looks different
, so I have trouble locating files. Ah, the joys of upgrading. 
Rustwork
Warlord
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first i just want to say what an excellent program! i have been using it for many months perfectly but, today i used it before work and when i got home it had only tried to generate around 30 maps. so, i tried it again. same thing. civ seemed to crash and then mapfinder keeps checking for a few more iterations before it stops. so i deleted mapfinder and downloaded it again. now whenever i run it the first attempt doesn't do a quick start but actually tries to load a conquest or a saved game. i can think of nothing that i changed to cause the first problem and now it is performing like it never has. i was able to use it perfectly the first time i got it and then just today i have had those problems. i rebooted my computer and still having problems. i liked this program so much and just 2 days ago i went through 3,000 iterations. any help please?
EDIT- read post #760. had the wrong autosave file. now it does a quick start. so late right now. i will let it run tonight and see if i am still having problems with civ crashing.
EDIT- read post #760. had the wrong autosave file. now it does a quick start. so late right now. i will let it run tonight and see if i am still having problems with civ crashing.
Rustwork
Warlord
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it works again. don't know what the initial problem was. i reinstalled conquests, i had added some stuff that seemed to be making things run different, so that is cleared. deleted and downloaded another mapfinder. got the right auto save. rebooted my computer and went through 2000+ iterations last night finding 21 maps.
thanks for such a useful utility! i love being able to sleep, go to work, and come home with excellent maps to play!
thanks for such a useful utility! i love being able to sleep, go to work, and come home with excellent maps to play!
denyd
Emperor
I'm having an inconsistant problem with Map Finder halting. Sometimes I get 1000+ iterations before it halts at the waiting for Civ to launch step other times it halts within the first 10 map generations.
Any ideas what settings I need to modify?
[Edit: Just thought that I should check the release to see how current my install is]
Any ideas what settings I need to modify?
[Edit: Just thought that I should check the release to see how current my install is]
denyd
Emperor
Ok, now it's an official cry for help
I deleted my old MapFinder version (6.1 I think), rebooted my machine and loaded the newest version and rebooted again (just in case). I then opened MapFinder and created a rule set looking for >1 Cow and > 0 river.
I then start up conquests and go through my selections:
Chieftain - Huge - Max dirt on Pangaea - normal - temperate - old world
Select Iroquois and 8 opponents and generate a map next I closed the opening pop up
Then I switch to MapFinder and tell it to start, it closes the current game and goes to the main menu and procedes to step down 2 prompts to try to load a game. When I click on stop to end MapFinder I get the attached error
Not sure what to do now.
I deleted my old MapFinder version (6.1 I think), rebooted my machine and loaded the newest version and rebooted again (just in case). I then opened MapFinder and created a rule set looking for >1 Cow and > 0 river.
I then start up conquests and go through my selections:
Chieftain - Huge - Max dirt on Pangaea - normal - temperate - old world
Select Iroquois and 8 opponents and generate a map next I closed the opening pop up
Then I switch to MapFinder and tell it to start, it closes the current game and goes to the main menu and procedes to step down 2 prompts to try to load a game. When I click on stop to end MapFinder I get the attached error
Not sure what to do now.
Attachments
When I use the mapfinder, it seems to stall when trying to save the temp map.
My only requirement is AND Ivory > 0
Tell me if I'm doing this right:
1. Start Mapfinder
2. Start Conquests
3. Go to new game
4. Press the circle to accept the terrain
5. Decide my civ, etc, but do not hit the circle
6. Press the start button in map finder
It seems to go okay, the game starts, waits a minute (verifying?), then opens up the save menu. The the little overwrite prompt comes up, and it waits. Then the save window disappears (same map), a bit of a delay, then the save window comes back up, then the overwrite prompt, etc.
Can anyone help?
I only did superficial searching in this thread fior a similar problem, its 40+ pages
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EDIT: My bad, a little more searching, and I realised I didn't set the save directory.
My only requirement is AND Ivory > 0
Tell me if I'm doing this right:
1. Start Mapfinder
2. Start Conquests
3. Go to new game
4. Press the circle to accept the terrain
5. Decide my civ, etc, but do not hit the circle
6. Press the start button in map finder
It seems to go okay, the game starts, waits a minute (verifying?), then opens up the save menu. The the little overwrite prompt comes up, and it waits. Then the save window disappears (same map), a bit of a delay, then the save window comes back up, then the overwrite prompt, etc.
Can anyone help?
I only did superficial searching in this thread fior a similar problem, its 40+ pages
.EDIT: My bad, a little more searching, and I realised I didn't set the save directory.
Mr David
Civ-free
TimBentley
Deity
It looks like it's looking in the wrong folder (should be ...\Civilization III\Conquests\conquests.ini, I assume). Since I haven't used Map Finder in about a year, I wouldn't know what to change.
gmaharriet
Ancient Crone
I don't think you want your saves to write directly to your Program Files directory. I use Mapfinder all the time, and the saved maps are written to a completely separate subdirectory off the C drive. Here is a pic taken of my directories from Windows explorer. The maps save to where the dark blue highlight is on "Maps" and I move only the ones I want to play to the Program Files area.
If you look down farther, you'll see the Program Files and it's sub-directories completely separately.
If you look down farther, you'll see the Program Files and it's sub-directories completely separately.
denyd said:
Sorry, I have been gone for while and forgot to check this thread. Since the last version of MapFinder was very stable and problem free, I didn't think anyone would need my help anymore. If you don't see me around, please send me a private message. If you are still having problem, please let me know.
Mr David said:
Just like TimBentley said! Thanks Tim!
Since there are at least three different versions of Civ3 (vanilla, PTW, and C3C), you need to tell MapFinder which version of Civ you are playing. From the General Setup tab in MapFinder, you need to specify the correct "AUTOSAVE" folder for Civ3; otherwise, it cann't locate the civ3 *.ini file. The screen shot for this is in post #1 of this thread. Here is a picture of that setup screen: http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=85118&d=1111315775
denyd said:
Ok, first thing first, access the file properities of the SAVUtils.DLL to see which version you have. I think you are still using a much older version of the SAVUtils.DLL. The complete download for the latest version of MapFinder is at the beginning of the second post of this thread. Here is a link to that post:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=1531227&postcount=2
And here is the link to the latest package (it's the same one on post #2 of this thread): http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/MapFinder_v65b.zip
denyd
Emperor
Due to a system re-build, I no longer have MapFinder installed and with playing two XOTMs per month, it might be a while before I get back to playing HOF games. When I do, I'll be downloading and installing the most current version. If anything goes wrong then I'll let you know.
In case I never said it before, thanks for all the hard work on this
In case I never said it before, thanks for all the hard work on this
denyd
Emperor
OK, I'm going to try this again, I'll let you know the results
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