Patch is on hold..

[Gaias]

Slow download... Must be because everyone and their dog is trying to download it.

 

[oldStatesman]

GRRRRR!!!!

Patch failed to download properly!!!!!

 

[DavidBeoulve]

Well I see from your screenshot that it works with Blue Marble installed.
http://www.civfanatics.net/~bluemarble/content/index.php

Trying to download it now as the game is unplayable for me with 1gig RAM and a 128mb GeForce 3 due to massive slowdowns in medieval times.

Woohoo! It started downloading this time!

 

[Thalassicus]

24 megs...I wonder what's taking up most of that. Usually only updates to graphics/sound make patches large...

Take World of Warcraft's patches for example; I think I've downloaded 300 megs in patches there.

 

[doggiedaddy]

I'm guessing everyone and their brother is trying to get it now.

My progress showed 0/-1 bytes, so I knew it wasn't kicking in right.

Hopefully I'll get it before I go to bed!!

I don't think I read anything about sound fixes, but it looks like they addressed most of the major stuff!.

 

[Ray Patterson]

ah, that could indeed be it, their bandwith just flooded... probably also the reason why they didn't post it on their website yet. hm, I'll try again tomorrow. No word about memory leaks yet huh? OK, "global performance enhancements" perhaps.

 

[oldStatesman]

I'm guessing everyone and their brother is trying to get it now.

My progress showed 0/-1 bytes, so I knew it wasn't kicking in right.

Hopefully I'll get it before I go to bed!!

I don't think I read anything about sound fixes, but it looks like they addressed most of the major stuff!.

Keep trying every 5 minutes or so. I almost had all of it..and it timed out or something. I got in again just a minute ago.

 

[tongkl]

The good, the bad, and the ugly for my first minute with the patched game.

The good:
No more Cheshire Cat leaderheads.
Black terrain bug is fixed.
Food and hammer icons properly display.

The bad:
Animal resources (ivory, cow, horses, etc.) are still just shadows.

The ugly:
Movies are even slower than they were before.

The animal resource thing I don't really care about, but I kind of preferred it prepatch when the movies played at a decent speed. Hopefully someone can find a fix.

 

[Xerol]

Mine took about 5 minutes to init, and then got about 6 megs in and failed.

 

[Urederra]

So, at the moment the patch is only available for download thorugh the game. I guess that sometime tomorrow they will release the patch for download at www.civiv.com I don't have internet connetion at home, so I cannot download it.

Well, not a biggy, Civ IV works fine in my computer....

 

[Urederra]

The good, the bad, and the ugly for my first minute with the patched game.

The good:
No more Cheshire Cat leaderheads.
Black terrain bug is fixed.
Food and hammer icons properly display.

The bad:
Animal resources (ivory, cow, horses, etc.) are still just shadows.

The ugly:
Movies are even slower than they were before.

The animal resource thing I don't really care about, but I kind of preferred it prepatch when the movies played at a decent speed. Hopefully someone can find a fix.

what are your video specs?

 

[Venger]

Downloading now, listening to Boba Fett as the progress bar grows...

Fingers crossed - look at all those fixes. Good. I guess there were problems after all...

Venger

 

[Mysterio10000]

Any idea if saved games are compatible with the patch?

 

[Liquidated]

yah the server(s) is(are) flooded. if you get the 0/-1 just close it browse like um rb1 and try again.

Took me about 8 tries to start it and is cruising along now at 400 kB/s.

less said the better lest I jinx it.

Cheers!
-Liq

 

[karadoc]

Any idea if saved games are compatible with the patch?

I'll tell you once the patch finishes downloading. *fingers crossed*

 

[LAnkou]

got a 1706 error when installing it...

but it seems it install it properly

 

[scaramonga]

Here come the 'moans'.........LOL...........

Think I'll wait till all the 'guinea pigs' have installed/tested it..... ........nowt wrong with my Civ4 anyway!

 

[Chris1111]

I am not going to even attempt to download this tonight. I crashed as soon as I clicked on check for update. The patcher is going to be so bogged down.

*waits for everyone to go to bed*

 

[The Last Conformist]

Any idea if saved games are compatible with the patch?

Pre-patch saves load fine.

 

[Mysterio10000]

Pre-patch saves load fine.

Thanks for the info!