On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:21:47 +0100, Sean Black
<sean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In article <hn1sa31qpmd8fi31a6b974n7rgd99i8ms3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Wintermute
><Wintermute@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>>On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:01:58 +0100, Sean Black
>><sean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>I'm in the middle of a PBEM game of vanilla Civ IV, I've since
installed
>>>the Beyond the Sword expansion and can't now load my plain Civ IV save,
>>>besides doing a separate Civ install?
>>>
>>>I'd previously been running Civ with the Warlords expansion, but I
could
>>>continue my PBEM games just by running from the original Civ IV disc
>>>rather than the Warlords one and assumed I'd be able to do the same
with
>>>BTS.
>>
>>Does the PBEM game use 'locked assets'? When you install BTS, it
>>automatically patches vanilla CIV IV to v1.74 (and Warlords to v2.13).
>>Those patches modify the assets, so locked games for the old versions
>>aren't going to load anymore. Only way around it that I know is, as
>>you say, a seperate CIV install.
>>
>Can't really see any other way around it, I'll have to do a separate
>install, just seems odd that it'd load old games with Warlords but not
>BTS.
Warlords never touched the Vanilla installation, BTS does.
According to this thread:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=232029
"You have to unlock the save with admin password in an un-upgraded
install, then relock the save with admin password again after you
patch"
Of course, that's only going to work for you if everyone in the game
is moving to the latest patch.
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