Mods crash when I try to start a game in BTS

[GrayInvisible]

I'll try to start or load a game and it will crash right away. At first I had no problems, than it just started happening randomly. it also crashes when I click play scenario in regular BTS.

I have Vista, and the steam version of BTS. I tried reinstalling, but that didn't help.

 

[kwguy]

In XP (Media Center) I have BTS via Steam and, after the new patch, I cannot play any mod with a custom scenario...

I get an error which mentions msvcr71.dll, but the file is there... my feeling is its an XML error, but I don't really know anything about it... I was playing fine before the last patch.

I have reinstalled BTS completely. I really only play Rise of Mankind, so this is really annoying. RoM 2.0 and 2.12 both crash in seemingly the same place/way.

 

[ori]

welcome to cfc

do they crash upon loading? if so that is to be expected of mods with custom dlls which need to be updated.
the error message is weird though - that is a windows file...

 

[kwguy]

In my case, the mod loads enuf where I try to start a 34 nation Rise of Mankind custom scenario....it goes to generate the world and then crashes. The error strikes me as unusual also. When I have looked up that file, the problems associated with it usually are that the file is missing. It seems to be a .NET component which is intended to get distributed with software releses (vs something that resides in WINDOWS directory anywhere.

I can seem to run BTS by itself...I will try again....but each mod I have tried fails.

I updated my Radeon drivers too.

Interestingly, I am trying this on 2 diff systems, a Macbook Pro running XP Home under bootcamp and the aforementioned XP MCE 2005....they both crash in the same way. My feeling is that its a Rise of Mankind problem with the new patch under Steam?

 

[ori]

that is a mod that uses a custom dll - that needs to be updated for patch 3.17

 

[kwguy]

Haha Thanks.

Even though I had updates turned off, Steam did it anyway. I don't suppose there is an easy way to undo the 3.17 update, is there?

 

[ori]

there is no easy way for the retail version and no way for steam

 

[kwguy]

Here is a thread about the DLL incompatibility of RoM 2.x. 1.X apparently still works with 3.17 and at least 1 guy having some luck by removing/renaming the incompatible DLL.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=279435

Thanks so much Ori, I would not have learned any of this without your input.

Upon trying this, I notice that RoM 2.12 does load and run, but I get an error when I try to parse the custom 28 Civ earth map.