Problems loading starting saves

[AlanH]

Good news! But which folder?

 

[Dusty4prez]

Like the folder the save game came in then I put that folder in single player saves

 

[AlanH]

Ummm! I didn't think the download came in a folder. Which link did you click?

I can't see any earthly reason why having the save in an extra folder would have any effect.

 

[Dionysis]

Just wanted to thank you guys for your suggestions - I too was getting the "RunTime error" and after trying AlanH's suggestion of cleaning out the cache, I can now play!
And like alot of solutions for problems in the computer industry, it was the simple thing that worked

Now, back to Civing! Thanks again.

 

[Dusty4prez]

I don't see any reason why it should have worked either anyways I meant when you download it it comes in a zipped folder I just unzipped it to the save directory

 

[AlanH]

Hmm! The links I know of are to unzipped raw .Civ4SavedGame files. I'd still be interested to know where you found the one you used.

Leaving it zipped would certainly have made it difficult-to-impossible to play! I wouldn't have thought you could even see it to load it ... unless Civ4 is able to handle zipped files.

 

[Dusty4prez]

Aw this sucks I can't even submit anymore because someone saved over my old one (probably my brother) and I don't want it to be unfair.

 

[AlanH]

... and after al that effort ...

Well, at least your're in good shape to play the next one.

 

[tigerpoo]

I'm just adding in case it helps that I had the same error message described in this thread, but fixed it by uninstalling Civ4 completely and deleting eveyrthing in MyDocs/games/Civ4, then reinstalling the game and patch 1.09. I had the Canada mod installed.

Unfortunately though, my computer crashed suddenly about 20 turns in... It never crashes, so I suspect it had something to do with the game.

 

[AlanH]

@tigerpoo: Did you have autosaves running, and set to save every turn?

 

[tigerpoo]

Yep I had autosave on, not sure if it was every turn though. I reloaded at the most recent and played through to 600BC, so eveyrthing seems fine now...

 

[Renata]

For future reference, you can change your autosave setting to once per turn by modifying your civilization4.ini file. The game shoves it into MyDocuments/MyGames/Civilization4: it's the text file. Just scroll down until you find the line for autosaves and change the 4 (for saving every 4 turns) to a 1.

 

[hurricane766]

I had the Canada mod installed.

Hmmmm.. I had the Canada mod as well