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richardhutnik on 08 March 2009

Again I try to run and load the game.  I put expansion disk in and run it.  After it sits there for a minute to a minute in the half, I get this as the error message:

AppName: civ4beyondsword.exe     AppVer: 3.1.3.1     ModName: ~df394b.tmp
ModVer: 0.0.0.0     Offset: 0007965a

And the bugger crashed, didn't even load.

You can see some answers I got in this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic/browse_frm/thread/72608a28f2a793d0?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=beyond+the+sword+~df394b.tmp#b28e6bc30d86e1b8

And this thread popped up on it:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/archive/index.php/t-233576.html

 

Any answers?



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Senlis on 09 March 2009

The thing about Civilization IV is that it is very sensitive to patches. Often, if I did not patch Civ IV before trying to install BTS, the BTS installer would crash. I would start by patching Civ IV manually from an installer downloaded off the internet. Do not use the in-game patcher; it will only cause headaches.

Whenever you manage to get Civ IV installed and want to play an online match, message me. Always looking for players.




 

Mudface on 09 March 2009

Did you upgrade your DVD drive's firmware/ drivers as was suggested in both threads?

andrewc258
Jul 31, 2007, 08:14 PM
Well I found my problem...apparently I needed the updated driver for my cd/dvd drive. I thought it was the video card (ATI) that needed the updated driver but upon contacting 2K they instructed me to find the most current driver for my cd/dvd drive and that fixed the problem.

If not, then have you tried a no cd crack?



richardhutnik on 09 March 2009

I would of did the DVD drive firmware/drives update, if I could find them. Google searching is fruitless.



Mudface on 10 March 2009

What about your manufacturer's site- have you contacted them to ask? What model is your DVD drive?

If you can't be faffed with that, just get a no CD crack from GameCopyWorld.



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richardhutnik on 10 March 2009
Mudface said:
What about your manufacturer's site- have you contacted them to ask? What model is your DVD drive?

If you can't be faffed with that, just get a no CD crack from GameCopyWorld.

The manufacture's site has nothing on the DVD driver update at all.  I am tempted to do the no-CD crack stuff, eventually here.  Last one I saw had RAR compression format.



Mudface on 10 March 2009

There you go then. Although seeing as it seems such a big deal to you, I'm surprised you haven't given your PC manufacturer a ring or an email.



richardhutnik on 10 March 2009
Mudface said:
There you go then. Although seeing as it seems such a big deal to you, I'm surprised you haven't given your PC manufacturer a ring or an email.

Gateway tech support is useless on this.  You get the, "Contact the publisher of the game" and the publisher tells you to contact Gateway.

 



Bitmap Frogs on 11 March 2009
richardhutnik said:

Any answers?

 

Play Alpha Centauri.





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richardhutnik on 11 March 2009
Bitmap Frogs said:
richardhutnik said:

Any answers?

 

Play Alpha Centauri.

Yeah yeah.  But I want to play around with the mods.  I could play GalCiv 2, if I wanted to do an alternative, or Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic also.  But I want to play the mods!