Civ 4 BtS won't run and it makes me sad

Sorry about this guys but my internet connection crapped out this morning (posting from my phone), the laptop's decided not to run BtS and my Xbox RRODed (Not related granted but annoying none the less) so I'll need to sit a few turns out until I can fix everything.



Jam it back in, in the dark.

My web connection has recovered now but for some reason, BtS is the only of the four CivIV types I have that won't work, Warlords, Vanilla and Colonization work fine.

Does anyone know where I can download a version of BtS that works?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Bath House Pang House

I'm not sure anyone can help you with that if your description of the problem is limited to "won't work". Won't work in what way, exactly?

It gets about a third of the way up the initial loading splash screen then does a "Windows has encountered a problem, would you like to send a report to Microsoft's junk mail folder?" thing. It won't even load up properly. I think a fresh install is the order of the day but figured if someone knew of a guaranteed healthy source it might be better than the installer package I already have.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

Mr. Big Gay Unicorn, does your Event logs say anything of relevance?

Error signature is

Quote:

AppName: civ4beyondsword.exe AppVer: 3.1.3.1 ModName: kernel32.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.5781 Offset: 00012afb

System log says

Quote:

Faulting application civ4beyondsword.exe, version 3.1.3.1, faulting module kernel32.dll, version 5.1.2600.5781, fault address 0x00012afb.

Neither of which mean anything to me of course.

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It's a cracked exe. I'll try reinstalling it later and if that doesn't work, go hunting for a different pirate version.

In other Civ related news, I had a go at the newest version of Colonization last night and I still don't like it. It's not really that different from the original and the game requires far too much micro-management to be fun frankly. I might refine my strategy and give it another go but otherwise I think I'll stick to proper Civ.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Re-installed the bitch and got a different cracked exe, seems to work ok now!

My laptop's still below minimum spec of course but that's a whole different problem. Cheers for the suggestions guys.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?