K-Mod for Mac

[Djibon]

Hi is there a way to make the K-mod work on the mac version of Civ 4? The startup screen stalls at K-Mod Init XML (Uncached)?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Djibon]

As i can see that there have been 100 + views and no replies i will elaborate.

I get following errors:

Failed Loading XML file xml/text/civ4dimplomacytext.xml. [/Aspyrbuild/depot/civ4/Source BTS/Win/Fireplace/Fireworks/win32/FXml.cpp: 140] Error parsin XML file

XML Load Error
LoadXML call Failed for xml/text/civ4diplomacytext.xml.
Current XML file is: xml/text/civ4gametext_betterbtsai.xml

And then this is repeated with civ4gametext_aiautoplay.xml
current XML is: better espionage options.xml

 

[satrapper]

well i cant really help but as far as im aware because k-mod uses a .dll then it wont work at all on macs. theres also a possible conflict with different versions of python libraries.

i guess most people are unfamiliar with macs so you'll have to wait til karadoc or one of the other knowledgeable posters notices this thread to be sure though.

 

[God-Emperor]

No mod that requires a custom DLL will work natively on a Mac. K-Mod is almost entirely a custom DLL.

To play it, you'd need to use the Windows version of Civ4 using one of the various methods to run such a thing on a Mac. There is a Mac specific forum, by the way.

 

[Djibon]

Ok thank you. I will run it Boot-camp style.


Thanks for the reply.

 

[damerell]

To play it, you'd need to use the Windows version of Civ4 using one of the various methods to run such a thing on a Mac.

It may be worth mentioning that I was playing Civ 4 on XP running under Parallels recently, and - once I'd turned off all the half-dozen things on the Mac that like to use 100% CPU for no reason [1] - was pleasantly surprised by how well it ran, certainly better than on my admittedly antiquated PC.

[1] What I don't understand is how each one of these makes a multi-core machine run like a drain all by itself! It's not like recent Macs are woefully short of memory bandwidth either.