Very Serious Problem

[Thorgrimm]

I did the shortcut trick for starting Final Frontier without starting civ 4 first. I can now launch Final Frontier. But if I try to launch a mod from inside civ 4 it still crashes. Any ideas why that is?



Cheers, Thorgrimm

 

[Premier Valle]

I guess, I should pay more attention on the number of pages of the thread .

Glad to hear you managed to launch it!

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Did the batch file do anything else at all, besides renaming My Documents? Also, how many user profiles do you have? You might have to delete the Mis Documentos from the guest profiles and the ones you're not using.

The batch file command is:

@ECHO OFF
cd Assets
xcopy *.* "c:\Documents and Settings\%1\Mis Documentos\My Games\Beyond the Sword\MODS\%2\Assets" /S /Y
echo >> FF B5 Installation Complete

Its only supposed to copy the contents of the provided Assets folder into a copy of the Final Frontier mod, overwriting any files with the new ones.

The problem is that the command is meant for the spanish version of windows (I didn't notice this until too late )
So, what it did was to create (not rename) a "Mis Documentos" folder.
I have no idea how could this have created such a mess.

As an experiment I want to try and load a mod from the get go, without pre-starting civ. Maybe that might force an error somewhere. So how would I go about doing that?

This is the command I use to launch the mod directly:

"D:\Archivos de programa\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Civ4BeyondSword.exe" mod="Babylon 5"

with a few adjustments it should work (you can place this in a shortcut)

 

[Saschkin]

I tried to install the mod using your batch file as well and still have the "Documents and Settings\Mis Documentos" additionally to my "Dokumente und Einstellungen\Saschkin\Eigene Dateien"
Notice how the User is missing in the path?
However, i do not have any problems, my Civ is ignoring anything on partition C:\ altogether and is only saving screenshots there. (this is why i had to install manually as well)
My only idea left would be to delete the "Mis Documentos" folder if you already havent and check for civ files beforehand (especially .ini and possibly .dll files) or switch your Windows to spanish language for a try (you get the idea) but this is just a vague guess and i do not claim to have any understanding of the problem at all...

 

[Thorgrimm]

Saschkin, in all honesty I am tired of fooling with it and since I do not play vanilla games I am fine with the shortcut method.

The headache it has given me almost had me delete the darn thing and the shortcut method was my last gasp. I would like to know whats going on but I have no interest in pursuing it any longer. I have spent nearly three full days messing with this problem. Enough is enough.



Cheers, Thorgrimm

 

[Premier Valle]

I tried to install the mod using your batch file as well and still have the "Documents and Settings\Mis Documentos" additionally to my "Dokumente und Einstellungen\Saschkin\Eigene Dateien"
Notice how the User is missing in the path?
However, i do not have any problems, my Civ is ignoring anything on partition C:\ altogether and is only saving screenshots there. (this is why i had to install manually as well)
My only idea left would be to delete the "Mis Documentos" folder if you already havent and check for civ files beforehand (especially .ini and possibly .dll files) or switch your Windows to spanish language for a try (you get the idea) but this is just a vague guess and i do not claim to have any understanding of the problem at all...

As far as I know your "Mis Documentos" folder is just another folder in the file system. There will not be any trouble. (99% sure of this )

 

[Chuggi]

Probably something in Windows detects that it is a problem because you can't have two My Documents folders. I've had similiar (kinda) troubles before when I tried to rename a user account, and ended up with multiple accounts and other problems.