Problems loading starting saves

[WaxonWaxov]

Guys -
Can you please detail the steps that you're going through to tey and get the patch installed? It appears that the install is failing somehow, and you're not getting any message about it.

"to tey" ? say what?

You're thinking my patch install didn't work?

Wouldn't the fact that horses don't show up until Animal Husbandry indicate the patch was installed?

 

[ainwood]

I meant "to try".

No - the pre-requisite techs depend on the XML, so that part of the patch could have been applied. Can you post a save from a game that you've created?

 

[Denniz]

Updated my previous post with the correct "application data" Path to delete after uninstall.

 

[WaxonWaxov]

ICan you post a save from a game that you've created?

See post #19 above.

 

[ainwood]

See post #19 above.

Ok - could you please e-mail your copies of CIV4UnitClassInfos.xml and CIV4UnitInfos.xml to me at gotm@civfanatics.net ?

 

[Jove]

This problem is different, but I don't want to start a new thread yet.
I played 4otm1 last night, up to about 1100BC or so. No problems. Didn't do anything else with my computer, loaded up the save to continue. Now, my computer is acting strange. In the game, I get a pop-up menu every time I select a unit. Clicking isn't enough, I have to choose 'select all' or whatever from the menu to select a unit. The keyboard does not respond, for instance, 'g' doesn't mean Go anymore, it has no effect at all. Function keys have no effect, I have to do everything by clicking through these menus.

What's worse, it isn't isolated to just Civ4. For example, in Windows Explorer, using the scroll bar now closes the window. There may be other problems that I haven't discovered. It doesn't look good at all! Have you heard of anything like this?

 

[AlanH]

I have had a situation in the past where I found my computer playing up and I realised I had a book or something holding down one key on the keyboard.



I realise this sounds unlikely, but stay with me on this. Maybe Windows is misbehaving? Have you tried quitting Civ4? Does Explorer then revert to its usual well-behaved self? If not then maybe it's not Civ-related.

 

[Renata]

I've had the exact same thing a bunch of times -- various things on my oh-so-cluttered desk holding down the CTRL, windows and/or Alt keys, bits of peanut getting wedged in here and there (I'm terrible about eating at the computer ), that sort of thing.

I also have had my mouse occasionally go temporarily haywire on me, with the left mouse key acting as if it were the right one for a while and the right one doing who-knows-what. I've only ever noticed that happening in Windows applications and the desktop, though. Usually right-clicking a bunch of times followed by a left click sets things straight.

At any rate, try looking into things like that first.

 

[WaxonWaxov]

Ok - could you please e-mail your copies of CIV4UnitClassInfos.xml and CIV4UnitInfos.xml to me at gotm@civfanatics.net ?

I'll be able to around 11am tomorrow (Saturday)

 

[AlanH]

Please can those who are getting the runtime error try deleting the contents of the Civ4 cache and reporting results ... if you haven't already done so. The cache is at:

"C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\cache"

There's a possibility that this is hanging onto mod data and confusing the software.

Thankx

 

[Dusty4prez]

I already tried that

 

[AlanH]

We'll continue to try to reproduce your problem, and we'll feed this back through our own channels as best we can, but the developers can't ask us to test things if we can't replicate it. It's not just a GOTM-specific issue, as we know other saves fail as well. So, if you haven't already, you really ought to raise it directly with Take2 as a customer support issue.

 

[WaxonWaxov]

Please can those who are getting the runtime error try deleting the contents of the Civ4 cache and reporting results ... if you haven't already done so. The cache is at:

"C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\cache"

There's a possibility that this is hanging onto mod data and confusing the software.

Thankx

YES!!!!! that worked!

Pardon me while I go play now.....

 

[AlanH]

One down, Dusty and Hurricane still to go. We know Dusty's cache isn't the issue. How about Hurricane?

 

[WaxonWaxov]

I should add that I (backed up then) completely DELETED my Custom Assests and Mods folders.

 

[hurricane766]

IT WORKS!

I deleted everything and did a complete reinstall and it worked fine.

Thanks everyone.... I would have posted this 4 hours ago but I was playing the GOTM!

 

[AlanH]

Meatloaf "Two out of three ain't bad!" Now, what do we have to do to get Dusty going?

 

[Dusty4prez]

None of them worked

 

[AlanH]

Something is still on your hard drive to make Civ4 think it's running in modded mode. Two people have been successful in overcoming the same problem as you are having, and almost 150 players have submitted their games. So it must be possible to get this working.

I don't think you can try these things one at a time. You need to clean out the whole system in one go, otherwise the software may rewrite the faulty cache files you are trying to remove.

I'm not the best person to offer advice, but the only thing I can suggest is to uninstall Civ4 using the uninstaller or add/remove programs or whatever is the recommended method, then delete every single remaining item of Civ4 data and software, in all the places where people have suggested they might hide. Then do a clean installation and patch it. Then don't go near any mods until you've tried loading up the GOTM start and/or the other files I linked earlier. If none of this works then it looks like a case for Take2's support desk.

 

[Dusty4prez]

Yay, instead of putting the save by itself I left it in it's folder and it works