Mods don't work

[naxxmaxx08]

Hi every one:

I have installed two mods (Dawn of new era and Modular units), however its seems they are not working. I download them, move them to the folders and later on, I load the mods in the game.

I reset the game with any of the mods...but I don't see differences, it the colonization 100% original.

Does anyone the solution? thx in advance!

[Privateer69]

where did U place the mods? In the local game tree eg.
\Steam\SteamApps\common\civilization iv colonization\mods

or in Your user folder like
\Users\Username\Documents\My Games\civilization iv colonization\Mods

second one works for me on several os (win vista and win8 atm)
If you want to start the game directly with a mod loaded, you can edit
CivilizationIV.ini, localized in the user folder:

"..\Users\Username\Documents\My Games\civilization iv colonization\CivilizationIV.ini"

search for line
; Specify a Mod folder (Mods\Mesopotamia), '0' for none
UserProfile = Default Profile

and ad a line with your desired mod folder e.g.

Mod = Mods\Religion_and_Revolution

Than the game will start with the mod already loaded, no need to load the mod ingame and restart for loading

PS: AFAIK you can only load one mod at a time.


PS2: Good forum in english: http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=213
in german: http://www.civforum.de/forumdisplay.php?467-Sid-Meier-s-Colonization

Hope this will help

[naxxmaxx08]

Thank you! I found the solution: I installed a old version of the mods. Right now I downloaded a newer versions and it works!

[XB-7]

Any Mac users have any success with loading mods?
I get this error whether I use the suggestion here or load the mod within the app:

XML Load Error
Failed Loading XML file xml\text\civ4gametextinfos_original.xml.
[/users/tim/p4/colonizaiton/source/win/fireplace/fireworks/win32/fxml.cpp:140] Error processing XML File -
File: xml\text\civ4gametextinfos_original.xml
Reason: (null)
Line: 0,0
Source: (null)

I've tried resaving the text files with no avail. This happens when I try to load the TAC mod as well.

[XB-7]

I contacted the support department at Aspyr who provides the Mac compatibility wrapper. They assured me they had no intention on supporting user mods.

If you're planning on purchasing the Civilization IV Series for the Mac platform and want to apply mods, it would be best not to purchase it here from Steam or the Mac App store.

In all honesty I compared the speed of Aspyr's port and a Wine wrapper that took me about a half an hour to create. The performance is the same even when running about a gig of mods on top of Wine version.

[BoboMaximus]

The Only Mod that I ever go to work Correcty was the mod by TAC. http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=440319