Multiple Installations of Civ 4 on the same computer

[Alekseyev_]

Hi all,
I am struggling with the following problem: I have the game on Steam and would like to have both the original version (via "Betas") and the updated one for Steam Multiplayer installed at the same time. I tried downloading one, copying the folder and then switching to the other. However, the .exe in the copied folder will still cause a launch of the .exe in the "original" game installation folder Steam created. If I rename the new folder, Steam will throw an error message about the game files not being found.

Does anyone know how to make two installations with different versions work?

 

[Ramkhamhaeng]

How are the executables named? I do not know if steam put some extra binaries for launching.
If yes, start Civ4BeyondSword.exe directly.

If you restart Civ4BTS by selecting a mod in the game, try to start the game directly with the mod by adding „mod="modname"“ (first char modname needs to separated by one char from 'mod=' token).

Last tipp: Search for Civ4 in the Windows registry. There had to be existing an entry to the other installed version.