SGOTM 05 Maintenance Thread

[Piko]

I assume the directory is an absolute address, so it must be default install directory settings to work?

Edit: this may well be the reason it is the only game i have installed on C: drive, i know i would not have done that as a random event.

 

[Gyathaar]

I assume the directory is an absolute address, so it must be default install directory settings to work?

Edit: this may well be the reason it is the only game i have installed on C: drive, i know i would not have done that as a random event.

No.. you can install it anywhere you like

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Gyathaar - I understand my assets file needs to be set up just like yours so I don't get the Assets Protected warning. Can you tell what you have there?

Edit - I have completely structured the files just like HOF-1.74. I need some help here, otherwise I won't be able to play.

 

[Gyathaar]

Gyathaar - I understand my assets file needs to be set up just like yours so I don't get the Assets Protected warning. Can you tell what you have there?

Edit - I have completely structured the files just like HOF-1.74. I need some help here, otherwise I won't be able to play.

Look further up in thread, to post 87
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=5744129&postcount=87
to see how the mod files should be placed..
What the civilization4 folder is called does not matter. nor does it matter whare it is located (as long as the mod folder is directly inside it, and the SGOTM5 mod holder is directly inside that)

Are you able to open GOTM21?

Also what did you do between it working for you and it stopping to work for you? did you reinstall or something? (if so.. did you install the 1.74 patch?)

Also.. you you post a locked save (locked assets game option) with the HOF-1.74.SGOTM5, I can tell you if your problem is with the mod or the civ4 install

 

[Munro]

I had the same problem as Lexad, Mauer etc - couldn't open the save until I moved the Mods folder from the \My Documents\My Games\ location to the C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\ location.

@Alan - worth adding an update to the original 'install instructions' post to reflect this, since it sounds like a common problem? Since you don't get the error until first opening the save, there might be quite a few people out there who are yet to install the mod and test it out... ?

You can drop the expanded folder into a Mods folder. The one to use is the one in a folder with a path name like \My Documents\My Games\Civilization IV\ (this assumes Windows XP).

There's another Mods folder in Program Files\Sid Meiers Civilization IV\, and it can go in there instead if you want it to be shared by multiple user accounts on your computer. Or you just want it to work.

 

[Mastiff_of_Ar]

Has anyone had the problem of trying to open a save and getting a microsoft style message that Civilization has a problem and must shut down? In solving all the other ones, I hadn't had this happen. The game starts, gets past the video of the earth, and as it begins to load the save, bam... up pops the message.

I have opened other SGOTM saves with this mod, and haven't had problems. It figures my turn would come up and it would quit working...

 

[Mauer]

Has anyone had the problem of trying to open a save and getting a microsoft style message that Civilization has a problem and must shut down? In solving all the other ones, I hadn't had this happen. The game starts, gets past the video of the earth, and as it begins to load the save, bam... up pops the message.

I have opened other SGOTM saves with this mod, and haven't had problems. It figures my turn would come up and it would quit working...

If it helps anyone figure the problem out, the very same save Mastiff tried to open I was successful at opening.

 

[AlanH]

I had the same problem as Lexad, Mauer etc - couldn't open the save until I moved the Mods folder from the \My Documents\My Games\ location to the C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\ location.

@Alan - worth adding an update to the original 'install instructions' post to reflect this, since it sounds like a common problem? Since you don't get the error until first opening the save, there might be quite a few people out there who are yet to install the mod and test it out... ?

I've changed it.

 

[Bede]

Has anyone had the problem of trying to open a save and getting a microsoft style message that Civilization has a problem and must shut down? In solving all the other ones, I hadn't had this happen. The game starts, gets past the video of the earth, and as it begins to load the save, bam... up pops the message.

I have opened other SGOTM saves with this mod, and haven't had problems. It figures my turn would come up and it would quit working...

Judging from your earlier post there are multiple user accounts on your machine. I can't be certain without seeing the error message but I am pretty sure that the mod is trying to access a resource in a folder or file and your user account does not have the necessary permissions.

I encountered something similar in a Win2K installation of the HoF mod needed to play SGOTM3 although the game didn't fail in that instance it simply locked on moving a unit. The fix involved resetting the permissions for the user account and sharing the folder to that user account as it had been installed by the admin account.

 

[Thrallia]

random question...what's the point of having more than 1 user account? I've never created an account, just used the default one created when my computer is first used.

 

[DaviddesJ]

random question...what's the point of having more than 1 user account?

Some of us have more than one person who uses our computer.

 

[Thrallia]

I've had that as well, but we all just used 1 user account.

 

[Thrallia]

Alan, should you update the first post to show that diplomacy victories are disallowed? or was that just for the mac team?

 

[DaviddesJ]

I've had that as well, but we all just used 1 user account.

Well, ok, but it's much more convenient for different users to use their own accounts. You can have your own desktop, your own browser settings, your own bookmarks, your own Documents folder, etc., etc., etc.

It also makes it less likely that my kids will (inadvertently or intentionally) screw up something in my own account.

 

[Thrallia]

ahhh...yeah, that would be helpful...then my wife wouldn't keep sticking all my desktop icons into the quicklaunch toolbar

 

[AlanH]

Alan, should you update the first post to show that diplomacy victories are disallowed? or was that just for the mac team?

Just for the Mac team.

 

[dutchfire]

Has anyone had the problem of trying to open a save and getting a microsoft style message that Civilization has a problem and must shut down? In solving all the other ones, I hadn't had this happen. The game starts, gets past the video of the earth, and as it begins to load the save, bam... up pops the message.

I have opened other SGOTM saves with this mod, and haven't had problems. It figures my turn would come up and it would quit working...

Try redownloading the save from the server, and check it's file size.

 

[Mastiff_of_Ar]

Judging from your earlier post there are multiple user accounts on your machine. I can't be certain without seeing the error message but I am pretty sure that the mod is trying to access a resource in a folder or file and your user account does not have the necessary permissions.

I'll get the exact wording when I get home tonight, but the odd part is that I have another save from the previous turnset in the same folder that comes up just fine. And, as of now, everything Civ related is in one user account called "Civ Only". The account was set up awhile back, but I reinstalled everything and put it all in that spot and nowhere else. I can even start a new game with the SG mod.

Try redownloading the save from the server, and check it's file size.

Okay, will do. Do I check it against something?

I've had that as well, but we all just used 1 user account.

I have teenage sons... I prefer them on their own little accounts that I can administer.

 

[Mastiff_of_Ar]

The error message is:

Sid Mier's Civilization 4 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
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If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on may be lost.

For more information on this error click here.

Then it gives all kinds of information that would take a half an hour to type...


Also, the download says it's 61.9 KB, but when it gets to my computer, it's 34 KB. I mean, what the heck?

EDIT: Wow. I downloaded it again, for the 4th time, to a different spot... and it opened. Thanks for folks helping out!

 

[mdy]

AlanH, the 280 BC save for One Short Straw has been uploaded twice by mistake. This seems to have caused a problem with the score graph. Could you remove the second save please?