I would like to ask for everyones help on solving a problem that occurs a little too often when playing mods such as Fall for heaven and a few others. Its an error that occurs ONLY in multiplay. Here is a screenshot:
Something between playing certain civ mods multiplayer and the ntdll.dll file is not clicking. This is what happens: When i go to start up a multiplayer game everything is fine. When others join in everything is fine. But once i hit launch it seems as if every player then has a random chance to be instantly kicked out of the game and this message occurs. It will then occur every single time they try to play that mod in multiplayer.
Im coming to the conclusion that this error has something to do with only certain type of mods. For example of the four people i usually play multiplayer civ with three of us had this problem. The one guy who didnt has the oldest computer out of all of us and never updates his windows patches. In addition other mods like
Total Experience will give this same error but mods such as
Sevomod will work just fine.
I am wondering does Fall for Heaven and mods like Total Experience have something in common? Is there python code being modified similiar in each mod that could be causing this? I eventually found a solution to this problem and that was to reinstall windows
So far this is the only solution I have had to the problem. My other friends still can not play FFH multiplayer and im looking for a better solution than the shotgun approach of reinstalling. Note that FFH and the other mods will work fine in single player still. This problem isnt just with us either as ive started to see other people mention this issue in a few other thread.
If anyone has any ideas on what could be the cause of this and how it can be solved please let me know. Also if you want to test to see if this is a problem on your system just host a FFH multiplayer game by yourself and hit launch and you'll either get the error message or it will work just fine. Please post back here if you have this problem as Im curious who else gets this error and if there is something else (that our machines have in common maybe) that is the culprit.
Also here are the fixes i tried before reinstalling windows to no avail: defragmenting, reinstalling civ then re-patching, downloading a newer version of ntdll.dll and replacing mine with it, clearing my civ cache, turning off all firewalls and turning off all background programs that use the internet like skype. Nothing but reinstalling worked.
Any help or insight would be appreciated, thanks.
