Warlords Change Civics / Religion Problem

[UncleJohn65]

I just bought and installed Warlords, and love it - except....
Runs perfectly with the following exceptions:

1) Unable to change Civics or religion - there is a "Cancel" button at
bottom of screen, but no "accept" or "OK" button (Cancel button also does
nothing, I have to "Esc" or "Return" out of that screen) leaving all civics
unchanged...

2) several options throughout the game will read, for example on the main
screen where it should say "Custom Scenario" instead reads
"TXT_KEY_MAIN_MENU_CUSTOM_SCENARIO". This happens in various places.

 

[otaku428]

dude, I'm haveing the exact same problems. anyone know a solution?

 

[MasterOfPuppets]

I had the same problem and it took me a painful full afternoon to finally resolve it.
In fact I had the same problemS:
- TXT_KEY_MENU all over the place
- no button other than Cancel on Civics and Religion screen.

Browsing the internet I saw that some people were saying that the TXT_KEY_MENU problems are due to XML parsing problems, due to locale settings not being... US. That sucks A LOT, but I recognize the usual US attitude to believe that the whole world is going their way... don't take it bad though, I live in the US and enjoy it Anyway, my PC was set to French locale settings, so I changed it to US.
No improvement in Civ IV even after several reboot.
Finally yesterday I took the time to uninstall everything (patch, Beyond the sword extension, Civ IV), cleaned up all Firaxis and Civ IV folders, then re-installed everything again: Civ IV (from a DVD bought in France !!), patch 1.74, Beyond the Sword with the 2-CD bought in the US, patch 3.17, all of this with locale settings set to US.
And it worked !! No more TXT_KEY_BLABLA, and also, now I can change civics and religion.

So the minor side effect is that I have to keep the US locale settings to be able Civ IV. Oh well...