Hi
@lfgr , if you are still working on your mod, I hope you might be able to help me with the following issue I encountered when trying to run it:
A few days ago I re-installed Civ4 on my computer to play FFH2, and decided to try out your modmod (MNAI-u). I installed it following the instructions in this thread and started to play a new game. I played for more than 300 turns and then the trouble started.
I seem to remember accidentally clicking on the "Toggle Bare Map" option (or at least this is what I think happened, but I can not remember exactly - because as I was looking to undo this, the game crashed to desktop) Fortunately I had saved the game on that turn, so I tried to reload the last save - the game crashed to desktop. I tried to reload a previous autosave - the game crashed to desktop. I tried to start a new game - the game crashed to desktop (all crashes happened immediately after I tried to load/start a new game.
I reinstalled the mod - the game crashed to desktop.
For the next step, I tried something more radical. I uninstalled Civ 4 completely and deleted everything related to it (including the corresponding folders in the My Games folder - I even deleted them from OneDrive to make sure no old backups with potential errors would show up). Then I reinstalled Civ 4, reinstalled vanilla FFH2 and tried to reinstall MNAI-U (I even downloaded the archive again to make sure there are no problems). Vanilla Civ 4 and FFH2 worked without problems, but when I tried to start your mod, the game crashed so badly, it froze my entire PC so I had to restart it. I could still Alt-Tab out of the game and I saw the error message: "The program has encountered a problem and needs to be closed. Do you wish to save a diagnostic file?", but I could not click anywhere on the screen, so I had to restart my computer without generating a crash dump. I know that "the game crashed' is not a very detailed issue description, but that is all I have at the moment. Do you know of any tests I could do to isolate the bug? Also, when I reinstalled the mod, I followed the instructions from the testing guide and enabled logging. Now when I check the "Logs" folder I see multiple files there. How do I know which one of the logs is relevant to this issue?
More issues that might be related:
Weird detail 1: After I saw that I still had issues with your mod, I tried to start a new game in vanilla FFH2. It started without problems but I noticed a weird details - I now have the "Single Unit Graphics" option activated. I do not remember activating that option, I never played with that option on before, and as far as I know it is not the default option. I also checked the .ini file to see if I changed something there by accident, but I found no graphics options there.
Weird detail 2: when I played FFH2 in the past, I usually also install the "Blue Marble" terrain graphics, since this was recommended by Kael himself. So this time again, I installed FFH2, installed Blue Marble on top, and installed MNAI-u on top of that. When I saw that it crashed again, I made one last test: I used a clean install of FFH2 and added MNAI-u directly on top of that, without Blue Marble. The game still crashed as before, but now I get a different error message ("GFC Error: Failed to initialize primary control theme"). I don't know if this is because of the different terrain graphics, or because my first test had already messed something up in the game options.
This all seems very weird to me, but I am not a very tech savvy person, so maybe you can suggest some solutions (or further tests).
If it helps, the game version I use is Civilization IV Complete from GOG.com.