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Pitboss 18 IT and Tech Issues Thread
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(April 19th, 2015, 08:46)Ruff_Hi Wrote: What is the correct reinstall order for Civ? I think Civ vanilla + Beyond the Sword + latest patch is all you need. I've simply been copying my Civ directory around between the last several computers, without ever reinstalling at all, and it's worked fine. Try that too if you still have it available. (April 21st, 2015, 09:33)T-hawk Wrote:(April 19th, 2015, 08:46)Ruff_Hi Wrote: What is the correct reinstall order for Civ? Thanks T-Hawk. I ended up installing Vanilla, Warlords (they added some map options that you miss out on if you just jump to BtS) and the BtS. Both the Warlords and BtS install patched up the prior versions to the patches available at their respective release dates. Finally - I patched each to the latest patches available. I am yet to test any of it with my pbem or pitboss games.
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(October 22nd, 2014, 10:52)Caledorn Wrote: And ruff is officially banned from playing in my games as a reward for ruining my big surprise by posting silly and correct theories in the PB18 tech thread.
To agree with T-Hawk...I moved the install to a thumb drive a couple years ago, never regretted it.
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Since the experts are posting: I installed Civ on my newish work laptop by copying the all the folders from my old laptop. Everything runs, but I think I'm missing a define or something. Each time I start the program, I have Sid's tips turned on and several other settings are not the way I usually play. I have to go through and change them all (quick combat, health bars, extra city info, etc.) each time I start up the program: it's not saved to the .ini file.
Do you get these problems in BTS or when running a mod? You may have a second .ini file in your mod folder that isn't saving for some reason. I don't think those settings are configured in the XML files, those are all about the game parameters, not really configuration options (though I know that doesn't sound very distinct with how I'm saying it).
Played: Pitboss 18 - Kublai Khan of Germany Somalia | Pitboss 11 - De Gaulle of Byzantium | Pitboss 8 - Churchill of Portugal | PB7 - Mao of Native America | PBEM29 Greens - Mao of Babylon 
Xenu - I haven't run BTS in years, but just fired it up and it exhibited the same behavior as in the Fall from Heaven mods I usually run. My suspicion is that I'm missing some directory definition or PATH command that tells the program where to look for the ini file.
Edit: just checked, the timestamp on CivilizationIV.ini updated when I ran BTS, so it's writing the ini file. (April 21st, 2015, 13:19)plako Wrote: GG Xenu. Awww...I didn't get a chance to log in and see Dreylin's handiwork. Ah well, too bad. I guess it ends not with a bang, but a whimper.  (April 21st, 2015, 13:21)HitAnyKey Wrote: Woohoo!! I outlived Xenu....and probably by just one turn too. Yeah, that's the sad bit. That's what I was hanging on for! (That, and to try to kill whoever was going to be next lowest in score after you.  )Oh well, I guess that's what, 15th place? Could have been worse, I could have been dead almost any time after the OCC began on T165 if you guys had got motivated to do it sooner.  We'll need the RB historians to check their histories to see if 63 turns of OCC survival is any kind of record. I'm probably one turn short of that, too.  GG all, I enjoyed it. Well, most of it. 
Played: Pitboss 18 - Kublai Khan of Germany Somalia | Pitboss 11 - De Gaulle of Byzantium | Pitboss 8 - Churchill of Portugal | PB7 - Mao of Native America | PBEM29 Greens - Mao of Babylon |
