Popular mods & fan patches for SMAC/SMAX

[grodysattva]

Alpha Centauri Unofficial patch by Scient[github.com]

Install this first. This fixes bugs with yields for probe teams, farming, and several other issues that were never officially addressed.

PlotinusRedux's GUI improvements and renderer for SMACX[github.com]

This allows better UI scaling, resolution and windowed options, and other modern features that didn't exist in 1999.

Please comment on this guide with others you'd like to see added.

[Mortarch Of Blood]

I've literally just posted a discussion to ask about patches! Didnt see that the board had updated since I last looked xD

[BlakesSanctum]

bvanevery 's AI Growth Mod is another one.. He's moved to CivFanatics SMAC forum due to the SMAC2 forum going down.
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/smacx-ai-growth-mod.687238/

[blowingsand]

I would like to slow down (or stop) the active unit's blinking. On older computers it probably didn't blink on-and-off so fast, but now it's really annoying.

Also, I found a little program called MouseX. With it I configured my mouse wheel to zoom the map in and out.

[JIMSAVE]

So I have downloaded the SMACX Thinker Mod and the Installation says to Start the game from thinker.exe. But there is no thinker.exe in the folder.

[Phenian]

Originally posted by grodysattva:

Alpha Centauri Unofficial patch by Scient[github.com]

Install this first. This fixes bugs with yields for probe teams, farming, and several other issues that were never officially addressed.

How do I install this? There's no executable file. Just drag and drop?

[CALH The Demoniac]

Scient's patch is already included in the Induktio's thinker mod

[Mirra]

Originally posted by Phenian:

Originally posted by grodysattva:

Alpha Centauri Unofficial patch by Scient[github.com]

Install this first. This fixes bugs with yields for probe teams, farming, and several other issues that were never officially addressed.

How do I install this? There's no executable file. Just drag and drop?

There is a .exe on github. Look on there right side of the page for a "release" area and you can download the exe file. If you download the code on the page that opens up from the link you'll just download the files/code.

Though when I do it my game crashes on launch (well just exits out after Firaxis logo). Everyone else seems to have it work fine though.

[Professor]

For dummies like me, could someone kindly explain how getting these patches from GitHub works? I followed the links and the page for each mod has numerous files and folders. Should I download them all one by one? If so, is there an installer amongst them? Or is there somewhere a single installer file that I'm missing? Any help would be deeply appreciated.

[ppp]

Originally posted by Professor:

For dummies like me, could someone kindly explain how getting these patches from GitHub works? I followed the links and the page for each mod has numerous files and folders. Should I download them all one by one? If so, is there an installer amongst them? Or is there somewhere a single installer file that I'm missing? Any help would be deeply appreciated.

On the right side there's a Releases link:
https://imgur.com/yZWKxeC
There you find the EXE in the Assets section

[Elijah Baley]

Originally posted by ppp:

Originally posted by Professor:

For dummies like me, could someone kindly explain how getting these patches from GitHub works? I followed the links and the page for each mod has numerous files and folders. Should I download them all one by one? If so, is there an installer amongst them? Or is there somewhere a single installer file that I'm missing? Any help would be deeply appreciated.

On the right side there's a Releases link:
https://imgur.com/yZWKxeC
There you find the EXE in the Assets section

Yup. You only need that file.

[Professor]

Thank you, ppp and Elijah Baley both, for the clarification!

[Gunsaremagic]

Originally posted by grodysattva:

Adding:

Induktio's SMACX Thinker Mod[github.com]

An alternative to the Scient patch, with both includes its fixes, and makes the AI much better at terraforming and base improvements.

What about this? https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/smacx-ai-growth-mod.31053/ im not sure what to get

[Donald]

My husband has been able to run the Steam release of SMAC/SMACX on both his home (Win 11) and work (Win 10?/Win 11?) computers without patching. I already had the GOG release installed (and patched, with help from GOG tech support, largely using the recommended patches above) on my Win 11 computer's C drive, and have been playing it a lot. I installed the Steam release on my computer's D drive (more space there), but I keep getting dumped back to the desktop after the initial Firaxis Games logo screen. Not sure why my husband and I get such different results, and NOT looking forward to patching the Steam release the way I had to fiddle with the GOG release.
I had hoped that the Steam release would have already been patched. Also, the Steam release on my husband's computers displays the intro movie full-screen, while the patched GOG release on my computer shows all movies at reduced size in the center of the monitor screen -- and if patching the Steam release doesn't allow those movies to display full-screen, what would be the benefit of running the Steam release of SMAC/SMACX instead of the GOG release?

[Induktio]

Here are the most important links regarding Thinker Mod. There has been some issues where people download the source code package from github, so below is also the proper link for binary downloads as in Readme.md. Steam version should work with this mod if it is properly installed, but if the game crashes when using the mod, check debug.txt for bug report information.

• Thinker Mod website[github.com]
  
• Release downloads[www.dropbox.com]
  
• Develop builds[www.dropbox.com]
  
• Discord link[discord.gg]

[grodysattva]

Originally posted by Donald:

My husband has been able to run the Steam release of SMAC/SMACX on both his home (Win 11) and work (Win 10?/Win 11?) computers without patching. I already had the GOG release installed (and patched, with help from GOG tech support, largely using the recommended patches above) on my Win 11 computer's C drive, and have been playing it a lot. I installed the Steam release on my computer's D drive (more space there), but I keep getting dumped back to the desktop after the initial Firaxis Games logo screen. Not sure why my husband and I get such different results, and NOT looking forward to patching the Steam release the way I had to fiddle with the GOG release.
I had hoped that the Steam release would have already been patched. Also, the Steam release on my husband's computers displays the intro movie full-screen, while the patched GOG release on my computer shows all movies at reduced size in the center of the monitor screen -- and if patching the Steam release doesn't allow those movies to display full-screen, what would be the benefit of running the Steam release of SMAC/SMACX instead of the GOG release?

The scaling issue can be fixed by going to the exe, right clicking it, going to properties, then the compatibility mode, and setting scaling to be done by the application.

If you already have the GOG version then you should have DIrectShow installed; if you have not played SMAC/SMAX on that machine, DirectShow not being installed is the most likely cause of crashing. It can be added from Windows Add/Remove Components.