Hotseat game can't be loaded

[LordBiff]

Originally posted by Willem


That's been an issue a couple of times now when the game has been updated. Basically what it means is the game is reading the file with locked assets enabled. That's something you can select to prevent cheating in an hotseat game. Since it's seeing something it's not suspecting, it thinks the game has been altered somehow. There is a way to unlock it apparently but I'm not sure how that's done.

Does anyone know how to unlock this?

Thanks

[joncnunn]

I'm not sure, but I would guess you started the game in the previous patch and now one (or more) of you has installed a latest patch.
If that's the case, you may want to call a winner if someone was clearly ahead and if not agree to a draw because the only way I know to fix it is those with the latest patch to uninstall BTS and then reinstall BTS back up to the patch level it was last at when the game could still be gotten to.

[LordBiff]

wrong again Flanders, I tried to start a new pbem and the same thing happens. I can't play multiplayer, ever!! Civ 4 will not allow games to be played on different computers. Civ 4 sucks. why say there is pbem when clearly there is none.

[Nugog]

Originally posted by LordBiff
wrong again Flanders, I tried to start a new pbem and the same thing happens. I can't play multiplayer, ever!! Civ 4 will not allow games to be played on different computers. Civ 4 sucks. why say there is pbem when clearly there is none.

No need to get testy at people trying to help.

I have posted in your other thread regarding the pbem issue.

Take a look there and let me/us know of anything you can think of.

Protected/locked/modified assets problems are created by the save you are trying to open being created on a different version of Civ than what you have on your PC.

Check you are both using the same version of Civ (ie Civ 4 original, Warlords, Beyond the Sword).

Check you are both patched to the same version as well.

Also ensure that no one has tinkered with any of the game files (XML or otherwise).

If the worst comes to the worst, uninstall Civ 4 and all expansion packs, delete all folders under My Games associated with Civ, reisnstall, patch to same level and try again.