New Warlords Patch in MP Games

[topdog]

Does anybody know if it will be possible to play both patched and unpatched games with Warlords and how would I set up my installation to be able to do this.
Thanks for any help.
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[trev]

Generally the games will be patched as Warlords is patched probably, meaning existing mp games can simply be continued with the patched version, however all players must make sure they have patched their Warlords version

[topdog]

Not all games will be patched at the same time and the will be a lag of weeks in some games. what is to be done in that case

[CanuckSoldier]

Well except for Warlords mod games there is no real reason to not patch to 2.08, the save version has not changed it is still 2.00, so all games should progress unabated. If you want to use both 2.08 and 2.00 here is a proceedure you can follow.

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This assumes that you have not patched and still only have version 200, if you have patched you will have to uninstall WL's and reinstall WL ver 200 from the CD.

1. Open windows explorer, and navigate to C:\program files\firaxis games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\

2. You should now see a folder called Warlords, right click and drag that to your destop, when you release your mouse it will give you the option of copy or move please chose copy. You now have a copy of the original ver 200 folder.

3. Click on the folder name on the desktop folder, and change it to Warlords200, hit enter to finish the change.

4. Now move(not copy) that folder back into the "Sid Meier's Civilization 4\" folder, you should now have a Warlords folder and a Warlords200 folder.

5. Now you can feel free to patch via the WL's lobby or D/L from a fan sight. Unfortunately the Firaxis installers will only patch the WL's version that was originally installed, and it has no option to change folders. Which means that it will patch the orginal Warlords folder to 208.

6. Now you can create a shortcut to the exe in the Warlords200 folder to your desktop and after renaming it warlords200 you will now have a shortcut to 200 and the original 'Launch Civ4 Warlords" shortcut will launch ver 208, you can rename that shortcut Warlords208 if you like as well.

Now your off to the races, just becareful never to enter the MP lobby with ver200 or it will want to autopatch, just use 200 for your PBEM or DirectIP MP games.

Cheers CS