Questions & Answers

[duckstab]

I had this happen when I'd disabled my microphone. Unfortunately, the now-disabled dropdown on the Audio tab will still have it selected and try to use it.

I don't have the game in front of me, but I think if you enable your microphone (temporarily), you can start the game and switch that dropdown to select nothing. Then disable your mic again.

But if this doesn't work, as the previous poster said, it's just a nuisance but not a gamebreaker.

 

[Zaanzie]

Can someone help me plz... I wanna play RFC but it won't load when I select "load a mod" --> "RFC". Strangely, my new computer also doesn't know how to open the 'shortcuts' in the public map folder (it doesn't know which program it should use). Any help is welcome

 

[Leoreth]

Does it really say "RFC" or "Rhye's and Fall of Civilization"? Because the folder has to be named the latter if you want to load the mod.

 

[Zaanzie]

It says Rhye's and Fall of Civilization, I was just too lazy to write it completely

 

[Chep]

hey,

this probably is sort of a stupid question, but what do I need to do to get the "exact" stability values for each column instead of 1-5 stars? (like "+80 Economy" "-12 Cities"...)
I just installed and updated BTS to 3.19, no mods or anything. Do I need to install something like the BUG-Mod (or whatever it's called) or an update of RFC from somewhere?
Will my current savegames still work?

thanks for your help

 

[Akbarthegreat]

this probably is sort of a stupid question, but what do I need to do to get the "exact" stability values for each column instead of 1-5 stars? (like "+80 Economy" "-12 Cities"...)
I just installed and updated BTS to 3.19, no mods or anything. Do I need to install something like the BUG-Mod (or whatever it's called) or an update of RFC from somewhere?

The latest RFC version. It is the whole mod, not a patch. It also unlocks the late civ starts on 3000BC

Will my current savegames still work?

No idea.

 

[Leoreth]

It says Rhye's and Fall of Civilization, I was just too lazy to write it completely

Okay, then what happens if you load the mod? The game quits to desktop and nothing happens? If so, check the processes in your task manager, if there's still a Cv4BeyondtheSword.exe process, the game is still loading, you just need to wait for a moment. Giving the process a higher priority might speed up things.

 

[Zaanzie]

The game quits to my desktop and after a short moment, the proces dissapears from the list in my taskmanager.

 

[Zaanzie]

I have solved my problem Since I have a new computer and I had to reinstall CIV4, I forgot to update my BtS to the latest version

 

[Zaanzie]

Damn, it didn't solve anything, it still doesn't work
It seems to happed with all my mods that were not originally in the game (RFC, RFC Dawn and FfH2). Maybe I placed them in the wrong folder... I placed them in C:\Users\ ... \AppData\Roaming\2K Games\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Complete\Beyond the Sword\Mods

 

[merijn_v1]

The mods should be installed in the program files.

 

[Zaanzie]

I'm not very good at this, can you give me the exact location?

 

[merijn_v1]

C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Mods\

(If you have civ gold, it might be a bit different.)

 

[Zaanzie]

I don't have a Firaxis Games folder in my Program Files. On my old computer, there was a 2K Games folder between them, but that isn't there either

 

[Samson]

I don't have a Firaxis Games folder in my Program Files. On my old computer, there was a 2K Games folder between them, but that isn't there either

What OS do you have? On Window 7 on my computer it installed it under Users/Username/AppData/Roaming or something like that.

 

[Zaanzie]

Yes, it is installed in Users/Username/Appdata/Roaming... so, that probably means that there is nothing wrong with the folder. But I still can't play the game

 

[duckstab]

Yes, it is installed in Users/Username/Appdata/Roaming... so, that probably means that there is nothing wrong with the folder. But I still can't play the game

That's your home folder, which is not where programs generally reside. Some installers and programs are not sophisticated enough to cope when executables and DLLs are put in nonstandard places. I don't know how it ended up there, but if you're not comfortable mucking with your system environment variables you should probably uninstall, reinstall, and make sure it ends up somewhere under either

c:/Program Files
or
c:/Program Files (x86)

The latter is where I'd expect it to end up by default on a 64-bit system, since it's a 32-bit game.

 

[Samson]

That's your home folder, which is not where programs generally reside. Some installers and programs are not sophisticated enough to cope when executables and DLLs are put in nonstandard places. I don't know how it ended up there, but if you're not comfortable mucking with your system environment variables you should probably uninstall, reinstall, and make sure it ends up somewhere under either

c:/Program Files
or
c:/Program Files (x86)

The latter is where I'd expect it to end up by default on a 64-bit system, since it's a 32-bit game.

You could do this if you have admin rights, but that location works fine for me. I put all mods in Users/Username/Appdata/Roaming/Civilisation4/BeyondTheSword/Mods (or smething like that) and they work.

Sometimes the installers that come with Mods that do not use this, but in many cases I have just moved the folder and it has worked. [EDIT] This is not likely to be the case for you, as RFC comes with BtS.

 

[Bearmanjew]

Um, okay, I read through the posts a bit, but sorry, there's 161 pages and I have no interest in spending ALL DAY for one question, so I apologize if this is a repeat, but...

When it says for the historical objectives "control such and such" (I've got one going as Germany, this is rather relevant for them-control France, Greece, Scandinavia, England, Russia, at various points), do they mean ALL of it? How do we know where the boundaries are? Or do we just knock that country out of the game? Knock them out and have some of their cities? I would dearly love some clarification.

 

[Leoreth]

Okay, it works as follows: every civ has a core, which is the area where it flips cities at the beginning of the game. You can look them up in the RFC atlas.

Controlling a civ means:
- if the civ in question has collapsed, control at least one city in its core
- if it is still alive, control more cities in its core than the civ itself, but at least two

Before you ask, vassalization has no effect here.