Running mod on initial startup - is it possible?

[azzacanth]

(If this is in the wrong forum perhaps an admin could move it...)


What I would like to do is to find a way to make the game load a selected mod at initial startup as opposed to loading, clicking advanced, and loading the mod from there with a restart.

For two reason. First, because on my mom's computer, when you click restart, the game closes and never restarts (impossible to play any mod on there, although the tutorial restart works fine, just not mod restarts. Not even the ones that came with the game.) Secondly because on my own computer I am really into a mod right now and I know I won't want to play anything but that mod at least until I have finished a round of it.


Is it possible perhaps to make a modified shortcut to load the mod files? If not, anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks for your help.

 

[SailorLazarus]

It is actually pretty easy to do.

Just go to the following directory

\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4

There you will find a file called CivilizationIV.ini (It will say Configuration Settings if you have tile view on)

Open the ini file and look for the following line

; Specify a Mod folder (Mods\Mesopotamia), '0' for none
Mod = 0

Now change the "0" to the folder your mod is in. In my case this might be.

; Specify a Mod folder (Mods\Mesopotamia), '0' for none
Mod = mods\Harry Potter

Then save the file and launch civ4. POW! It starts up with whatever mod you choose.
If you want to load the vanilla game, just change it back to a "0"

 

[azzacanth]

nice, thank you!

 

[PiTiFUL]

Why does everyone do it the hard way? Just right click your shortcut and click properties, add this to the end of the command line in the target field ... mod="Mods\name-of-mod-here" and it will launch with the MOD.

 

[azzacanth]

Even better! Thats exactly what I was hoping for, I figured it could be done. Now I have a c4 shortcut and a shortcut to the mod I have been running. Great!

 

[SailorLazarus]

Why does everyone do it the hard way? Just right click your shortcut and click properties, add this to the end of the command line in the target field ... mod="Mods\name-of-mod-here" and it will launch with the MOD.

They both do the same thing. I guess I never really thought of it as the hard way.