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  • Can you turn Warlords "off"?

    Um, yeah. That's pretty much my question. No real elaboration left. Just wanted to know if I install it is there a way to still play vanilla CIV.

    I want to beat one before I try the other.

    Tom P.

  • #2
    Well, yes. The original Civilization4.exe stays, just launch that.
    Solver, WePlayCiv Co-Administrator
    Contact: solver-at-weplayciv-dot-com
    I can kill you whenever I please... but not today. - The Cigarette Smoking Man

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    • #3
      Can this be used for MP if all the players don't have warlord?
      It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
      RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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      • #4
        Certainly. If you run the original Civ4 exe, the game won't care that you have Warlords - in fact, it won't even know. As you may have noticed, the GameSpy lobbies for Civ4 and Warlords are separate, too.
        Solver, WePlayCiv Co-Administrator
        Contact: solver-at-weplayciv-dot-com
        I can kill you whenever I please... but not today. - The Cigarette Smoking Man

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        • #5
          They are two totally seperate games that have nothing to do with each other and won't interact at all. Expansions are not like updates or anything.

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          • #6
            Thanks, having just picked it up, I wanted to make sure. I'm sure the rest of the guys haven't all bought it yet. And we can not not play on Saturdays.
            It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
            RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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            • #7
              one annoying thing: to play vanilla civ4, you have to put the vanilla cd in the drive. to play warlords, you have to put the warlords cd in the drive.

              'tis a pain in the arse to have to keep swapping cd's because I've still got a vanilla pitboss game going, but am otherwise playing single player warlords.
              In a minute there is time
              For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
              - T. S. Eliot

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              • #8
                How is that such a "pain in the arse?"

                You can't be THAT lazy that you have to reach over to the vanilla CD, pick it up, open the disc drive, take out warlords, put it down, and then place the vanilla CD in the drive.

                ...Can you?

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                • #9
                  it's a pain because the computer is at an angle that puts the dvd drive under the desk by a fair amount (the angle is to enable better cooling and keep the fan noise on the GPU down). It's also a pain because the only time either cd is likely to be scratched is while putting it in/out of the drive. And I'm finding myself doing that multiple times a day, whereas previously I only had to do it once every couple of weeks at most.

                  not a big deal. but nonetheless, a pain.
                  In a minute there is time
                  For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
                  - T. S. Eliot

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Prussia
                    How is that such a "pain in the arse?"

                    You can't be THAT lazy that you have to reach over to the vanilla CD, pick it up, open the disc drive, take out warlords, put it down, and then place the vanilla CD in the drive.

                    ...Can you?
                    It's annoying and useless. And on a laptop, I don't want to be carrying a bunch of CD's around.

                    Anyone who can get pirate a game can and will get a no-CD crack. The copy protection is worthless and irritates only people who buy the game.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by jdchambe
                      It's also a pain because the only time either cd is likely to be scratched is while putting it in/out of the drive. And I'm finding myself doing that multiple times a day, whereas previously I only had to do it once every couple of weeks at most.
                      Check this out: www.d-skin.com

                      GREAT for CD's/DVD's that have to go in and out of drives a lot.

                      Highly recommended.

                      HTH

                      smacfan

                      P.S. -- I have no financial connection to them at all, I'm just a very satified customer!

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                      • #12
                        that looks like a good idea

                        I find it a pain swapping disks in and out for my pbem several times a day when Im playing something else. My conquests cd cracked taking out my cd drive eventually
                        Safer worlds through superior firepower

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Kuciwalker


                          It's annoying and useless. And on a laptop, I don't want to be carrying a bunch of CD's around.

                          Anyone who can get pirate a game can and will get a no-CD crack. The copy protection is worthless and irritates only people who buy the game.
                          Also, the dvd drive on MY laptop doesn't like the copy protection mechanism. I can't start the game, it crashes on the copy protection check (even before the window with python/xml... loader bar shows up)



                          So i had to get a crack to even be able to play it, despite having paid 27EUR for the expansion. Way to go. I have the same problem with C3C (not with CIV vanilla, civ3 vanilla or civ3 PTW though).

                          From what i have seen, game is great though.

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                          • #14
                            If you have the hard drive space, you could create an image of the DVD using Nero or something, and mount it as a separate drive using Daemon Tools.
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