Cant do anything

trickey · July 19, 2002, 18:05

I just installed the new (v 1.29f) patch. It worked fine at first. Then i stopped playing for about 6 hours. After that, i tried to play again, it oprens correctly, but when i try to click on new game, nothing happens. I can hear the sound it makes when you click, but nothing happens. Also, i tried loding a scenario ( the one that came with the game) its says that the scenario is corrupt. I dont have a clue what happende. Can i have some help please

zulu9812 · July 19, 2002, 19:37

the scenario was made before you installed the new patch? If that's the case, the bics are incompatible. Create a new blank scenario and use File>Import to imprt the scenario into the new bic standard.

alva · July 21, 2002, 22:29

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Originally posted by zulu9812
the scenario was made before you installed the new patch? If that's the case, the bics are incompatible. Create a new blank scenario and use File>Import to imprt the scenario into the new bic standard.

could you explain this in laymans terms(sp)??

zulu9812 · July 22, 2002, 08:37

I've always found that scenarios created under an old patch won't work with a newer patch. 1.29f has an import facility, allowing you to copy the rules, map and start locations from ine bic to another. When importing from an out-of-date bic (the bic is the file-type that CivEdit saves as) you get an error message, but it still seems to work ok.

andy_of_denial · July 27, 2002, 14:28

Yea, I have exactly the same problem! New Game and Load Game are just dead links and load scenario gives me that crap, too. I have reinstalled the game several times without any success. I even tried it under Win2000 instead of XP which I usually use, didn't work either. The old version still works but I want to play the newest

trickey · July 27, 2002, 18:00

Hmmm. weired. When i reinstalled it, the game worked perfectly.

andy_of_denial · July 27, 2002, 22:12

Lucky boy, I'm back to 1.17

jezuskryst · July 29, 2002, 21:10

I have tried to use the import feature, but I don't know how it works. How is it supposed to know what to import? There is no prompt asking what file to import from. So when I press import, nothing changes in the .bic file I have open.

SpencerH · July 31, 2002, 09:23

There has been a lot of posts where people have had to uninstall the old patches, reinstall new patches, etc before the game would work again. Personally I think its related to OS. I've never had to do that and in my add/delete programs I can still see every version of the game plus I can use my heavily mod-ed 1.21 game as a scenario in 1.29. It just goes to show the superiority of win98se over newer versions