Since I installed this mod, I've been experiencing a lot of instability that never happened before. Most recently, a game crashed that I was well into, and it gave me an error message that said:
"Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library" at the top
then the file path for the Civ4 exe file.
then: "This application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact your software vendor ... etc."
I didn't think too much of it at the time, figuring that I would reboot and load the most recent auto-save, but none of my autosaves--or any other saves from that game will load. I can start a new game, with or without the mod in effect, but I cannot load my old game and continue. This is particularly galling, since I was in the middle of a Deity-level game that I had invested many many hours into.
I attached a save from this game to this email message, in case someone can help me. Obviously, I would like to know if this will happen again before I try playing a HOF game again. I just can't bear the thought of playing another game for 10 hours, having the game crash, then not being able to load any of the saves. Incredibly frustrating.
I really enjoy playing HOF games and gauntlets, and in fact, that's about all I play anymore (until now). I appreciate all of the work that you do, and I hope that this can be resolved so that I can continue to enjoy the company and the competition. This problem occured only with the ".002" verison, though this may or may not be salient to finding a solution.
One other point: I did succesfully play two games with the ".001" version of the mod. However, I had other stability problems with those games--a crash message that said "initialize renderer failed" and it's asked me to check if I have the latest drivers. The error screen provided details about my screen settings. At the bottom of this error message, it said "Error: creation failed. Could not match desired fullscreen mode." However when I restarted my computer, this second problem went away, and I was able to load my games with no problem.
I had never had problems before the patch and recent HOF mods.
Can you help? Thanks in advance for any advice.
Matt