PB 59 organizing and tech thread

[Charriu]

Joshy contacted me informing me that the game is crashing more often for him. Is this happening to others too?

[joshybravo963]

I wouldn't say more often. Maybe once for every 15 times I log in

[Ramkhamhaeng]

I wouldn't say more often. Maybe once for every 15 times I log in

Did you installed the mod into
a) {Installation directory of Civ4:BTS}\Mods\ or
b) {My Documents}\{My Games}\Beyond the Sword\Mods\?

I know a case where a player used option b. Normally this variant should never work, but it does on his system. But not every time...
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If you use option a I want repeat my suggestion from last week:

1. Start the game (with this mod) and create a (duel size) singleplayer game and simply save it.
2. Load the SP game before you're joining the PB (not needed if you join multiple times without closing Civ4).

It would be nice if you could testing this for me out! After approx. 30 logins we could estimate if this ticks helps.

[joshybravo963]

I wouldn't say more often. Maybe once for every 15 times I log in

Did you installed the mod into
a)  {Installation directory of Civ4:BTS}\Mods\ or
b) {My Documents}\{My Games}\Beyond the Sword\Mods\?

I know a case where a player used option b. Normally this variant should never work, but it does on his system. But not every time...
:

If you use option a I want repeat my suggestion from last week:

1. Start the game (with this mod) and create a (duel size) singleplayer game and simply save it.
2. Load the SP game before you're joining the PB (not needed if you join multiple times without closing Civ4).

It would be nice if you could testing this for me out! After approx. 30 logins we could estimate if this ticks helps.

Since im running through steam my save diretory is steamaps/common/BTS/mods.
When I load the game i get two "YOU have selected an unusable voice capture device. Voice capture disabled." Pop ups. Then the same pop ups when I load the mod. And then when I connect to multiplayer I get a " warning the version of our game files do not match our host's" Pop up. So my crashes might be due to this?

[Jowy]

I wouldn't say more often. Maybe once for every 15 times I log in

Could this just be the same thing that happened to me? That someone else is logging in at the same time and it's taking a long time, so it seems like the program freezes or crashes.

I would also check that you are using the up to date mod version.

[Charriu]

When I load the game i get two "YOU have selected an unusable voice capture device. Voice capture disabled." Pop ups.

This happens for me, when I have no microphone connected or civ 4 can't use the device due to it's age. Don't worry. That pop up is harmless.

[Ramkhamhaeng]

Since im running through steam my save directory is steamaps/common/BTS/mods.

This is correct!
Did you start the game over shortcut or by Steam?

Since i'm running through steam my save directory is steamaps/common/BTS/mods.
When I load the game i get two "YOU have selected an unusable voice capture device. Voice capture disabled." Pop ups.

You can disable this annoying popup, see my description below.

Then the same pop ups when I load the mod. And then when I connect to multiplayer I get a " warning the version of our game files do not match our host's" Pop up.

Currently, I can not say why you got this warning on login. My assumption that it is caused by double loading the game (first normal, then the mod over ingame menu) does not hold on my system...


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To keep Steam complete out of the game you could try this startup variant. If you use BTS_Wrapper+Civ4BeyondSword2015.exe (or just Civ4BeyondSword2015.exe) for the start, but not the binary from Steam you avoid the dependency to this program.

Starting setup for RB59

0. Download and extract BTS_Wrapper.exe + dlls into Civ4:BTS's installation directory, if not already done.



   
1. Copy the INI file 'CivilizationIV.ini' into the installation directory of Civ4, but rename it to RB59.ini



   
2. Add the mod name to this new file and set some other variables to good values for playing PBs. If you write-protect this file now the correct
server address will restored at each start. Thus, no need to retype this values



   
3. Now create a shortcut to the Civ4 binary you want use and…



   
4. … add ini=RB59 to the target line.


If everything works as expected the game should load the mod now. If not the game will start in fullscreen and with the default settings...



EDIT: Advanced information:
• You can also load a save at the startup if you add following line to the target of the shortcut. This is nice for this other bug mentioned a few posts ago:

Code:

Syntax for the Wrapper (with quotes around the args)
"/fxsload=\"C:\Users\{…full path to save …}\CtH_2.0.CivBeyondSwordSave\"" 

Syntax for normal Civ4:BTS binary. (Sorry for the difference...)
/fxsload=\"C:\Users\{…full path to save …}\CtH_2.0.CivBeyondSwordSave" 

• For testing it is sometimes useful to start multiple instances of Civ4. To avoid reading/writing of the same settings/logs you can mix this
with the /ALTROOT-argument, too.
Important note: Civ4 moves your whole normal root directory  (My Games/Beyond the Sword) to the new location. The developer used accidental the move command, but not copy! Do not be confused if you miss your beloved save games ).
Just copy your files back to the original location. At the next startup they will be untouched because they already existing on the new position.

Code:

Add this as first argument to the target line of your shortcut
/ALTROOT={C:\{YOUR PATH}} multiple

[Charriu]

Since you, Ramk, have made all that work with the screenshots, I suggest you copy that post somewhere we all can find it later for future games.

[Ramkhamhaeng]

We need a fixed thread to collect all this information about playing PB games. Does it already exists?!
My post is maybe a good startup, but I do want curate a thread like this. I'm already do this for the German wiki…

[superdeath]

Another cause i think ive found for the whole "when you FINALLY load in, you crash" It happened for me when Miguelito logged out while i was logging in. Dont know if that is an actual potential cause tho.