Hello all - long time lurker, first time poster.
I installed WoC 1.2 + the patch on a clean installation of Civ 4 BtS (Steam), and unfortunately my experience has been less than positive.
After double-clicking on the desktop link (which launches WoC directly), it takes about 7 to 8 minutes for the init screen to appear (!), during which time the process manager shows that the Civ4 executable is conusming about 50% of the processor.
Once the init screen appears, it takes about 3 minutes to get to the main menu, where i can interact with the game as normal without any slowness or visible buggy activity.
Unfortunately, once i've selected the options for my game, and i reach the second (in-game) init screen, it freezes with the following error in a debug window :
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Assert Failed
File: .\CvPlayer.cpp
Line: 2054
Expression: false
Message: python findStartingPlot() returned an invalid plot index!
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I've tried both leaving the game alone, as well as ignoring the error, for up to 30 minutes - in each case, the progress bar does not move, and nothing happens. I'm forced to terminate the process from the task manager.
I have included my dxdiag output for reference. I hope that the solution is an easy one.
Thank you, all.