Civilization IV: Complete Edition

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alcorsepol Anonymous

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Civilization IV is a turn-based game in which the player builds an empire from very limited initial resources.

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pepebuho Saturday 24 March 2018 at 4:27
pepebuho Anonymous

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Hi.

Could you update the script to install from GamersGate?

Thanks

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iceiceice Tuesday 18 July 2017 at 3:06
iceiceice Anonymous

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Hi,

 

I used this installer for Civilization IV for years, thank you PlayOnLinux for creating it! It works great.

 

However, about a week ago it stopped working. The reason is, I install using the steam store purchase of the game, and the new steam update is broken with the wine 1.7.55 used in this package.

 

There is a bug report and a patch here:

 

https://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-15336.html

 

To get the installer to work now with steam, I had to update the Wine version in the script: "2.12-staging". Since that wine has the patch described in the bug report. With that change to the script, the game installs and runs for me in Ubuntu 16.04.

 

It may be good to make a permanent change to the wine version in the script? I hope the maintainer will see this message.

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Anonymous
Monday 24 July 2017 at 10:03
Just registered to be able to say thank you for this fix. Thank you!
Anonymous
Monday 24 July 2017 at 10:08
Thanks for the fix. I will make sure to update and do some maintenance work on the script shortly :-)
Anonymous
Tuesday 25 July 2017 at 11:22
Hi, so actually, having looked into your script, I didn't realize it would be so approachable. I guess I imagined that this would all be really horrible like debian packaging or something.
Anonymous
Tuesday 25 July 2017 at 11:29
So one thing that occurs to me is that I almost never actually play the vanilla Civ 4, I always play a mod called Fall from Heaven 2. It's a little bit annoying to install mods in the play on linux prefix by hand, mainly because if I use the command line I have to figure out how to use the right wine version for that prefix. I wonder how hard it would be to add Fall From Heaven install to your POL script though? If I did the work would you be interested in adding that as an option? Is it better if I fork the script and make a different POL item? Let me know what you think. The install instructions are here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/how-to-install-ffh2.324731/ If I can use POL_WINE to run the installer, and there is some form of POL_WGET or something to fetch the installers for the mod, then I don't think this should be very hard. I'd have to check to see if the installers for the mod can take arguments at command-line and avoid user interaction.
Anonymous
Tuesday 25 July 2017 at 13:17
This sounds interesting. I don't see why we couldn't try doing this. I will take a look at it after I have done the regular maintenance work on the script (so that it can be used by regular users in the meantime). You could write an install script as stand-alone in the meantime if you want (for POL) so that we can easily integrate it later.
Anonymous
Sunday 8 April 2018 at 0:56
Sorry for not responding to this in a long time, stuff came up. I have looked at your script and decided that it may be best if we keep them separate. It makes maintaining them easier (since I don't update this script very often these days). And it feels a bit more logical since there are so many other mods out there, and if we add one then people might want us to add more.So I would suggest that we make it work with the main script, but keep them separate.
Grubshka Friday 17 February 2017 at 15:43
Grubshka Anonymous

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Everything is working well.

However, after installation, I had an error running the game : "caught unhandled exception creating xml parser object".
I reinstalled msxml3 from POL and it solved the problem !

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djg Saturday 13 February 2016 at 9:32
djg Anonymous

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Script worked great for me. Mint 17.2 with Civ4 Complete DVD. Installed and running single player mode.

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LinuxScripter Saturday 21 November 2015 at 8:45
LinuxScripter Anonymous

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This update has not been approved yet by the team.
Use it at your own risk

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Once I select the DVD the installator shows the "unable to find the CD-ROM" error. This is because the PoL is looking for file that dosen't exist on the disc. (Civ4Installer.ico)

I'm uploading the fixes to the script.

PS:Just in case you were wondering, I was using original Civilization 4 Complete Edition disc bought in Poland in 2013.

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Saturday 21 November 2015 at 10:34
The problem is that almost all software DVDs contain an autorun.exe, so that's not specific enough; user could have put just about any DVD in the tray...
I don't have this software though, much less on DVD, so I can't tell what could be better candidate files...
Anonymous
Wednesday 25 November 2015 at 12:51
Haven't used this script in a few years now. Guess it's time to check and update it. LinuxScripter, could you please provide a full listing of the files/folders of your disc? Do a "find ." inside the mounted disc to get a complete listing, and then post it here if possible. Or send it to me via PM. I have a few different versions of Civilization IV so I can compare and find a file that exists in all of them. Thanks! : )
Anonymous
Friday 11 December 2015 at 17:47
@alcorsepol done
Anonymous
Monday 14 December 2015 at 23:48
@LinuxScripter awesome! I will check my other versions of the game and pick a common file for all of them (if any). Either way it should not be solvable :-)
Anonymous
Monday 14 December 2015 at 23:48
it should be solvable* ... there is no edit function on comments : (
Anonymous
Sunday 8 April 2018 at 0:53
Sorry for not responding to this ... in like 3 years. I have started playing around with it now however, and will see if I can solve it since I'm writing some scripts for some other games now anyway.

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