Pbem: C00p3r8

[Mickeyj]

Sounds good to me - I just want to get 1 game under my belt!!

[sabrewolf]

still alive?

3850bc to jshelr

[Addled Platypus]

I am still getting saves-thanks for thinking of me

this needs to go to another home

[sabrewolf]

but some other of your games are progressing afaik

[sabrewolf]

ok, i'm setting up another. we can let this run again when PR is ready again

[sabrewolf]

done... let's hope this time we'll get past turn 3
4000bc to jshelr

[jshelr]

to snoop

[Addled Platypus]

FYI

the other games are progressing due to the fact of the trun player is jumping through addtional hoops and converting the save to a .rar extension

I have been lucky in this respect because the same turn player
is in 3 games

[sabrewolf]

what i don't really understand is why you need RARs to play the game. i mean... you'll eventually need to un-rar it, right?
or is it maybe your email program/firewall/virus protection/ISP that blocks regular .Civ4SavedGame-extensions?

[Addled Platypus]

I have the ability to unzip .rar files no problem

ever since I patched, Civ 4 pbem games have not behaved.
Even SMAC saves get the civ4 thingy

my firewall,spy ware, spam blocker have never been an issue before

below is the saves for a SMAC pbem

[sabrewolf]

ok, we're getting closer to the problem and it's solution

for one, i'd recommend that you display file extensions.
go to windows file explorer, menu "tools", "folder options...", Tab "View", and then UNcheck "hide extension for know file types".

but that still does not explain what makes the difference on why you need RAR. essentially, if you unzip (unrar) it, you'll get a civ4 save game. the same as if you'd get it directly.

i'll post 2 registry patches that might fix it but you'll have to first edit them to adapt it to your correct file locations.

[sabrewolf]

PR, ONLY USE IF YOU HAVE WinXP

REG file #1:
this is probably already correct on your machine.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Civ4SavedGame]
@="Civ4SavedGame"

REG file #2:
here, make sure you adapt the path of your installation to whereever you installed the game itself (this is the default for english language installation):

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Civ4SavedGame]
@="Saved Game"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Civ4SavedGame\DefaultIcon]
@="c:\\Program Files\\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\\Civilization4.exe,1"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Civ4SavedGame\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Civ4SavedGame\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Civ4SavedGame\shell\open\command]
@="\"c:\\Program Files\\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\\Civilization4.exe\" /FXSLOAD=\"%1\""

[sabrewolf]

download this, unzip it, edit whatever needs to be edited,
then execute
first: HKCR-.Civ4SavedGame.reg
second: HKCR-Civ4SavedGame.reg

[sabrewolf]

i can't give you the registry patch for civ3 because mine is messed up a bit because of the MM tool (CivAssist2) from ainwood from CFC.

but anyhow. can you explain following: when you
1) receive a civ4 PBEM save from somebody by email and
2) you save it in a folder c:\documents and settings\[yourUserName]\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meyer's Civilization 4\saves\pbem\
3) you start up civ4
4) you load it from the civ4 PBEM load menu

what exactly goes wrong and at what stage?

[Addled Platypus]

I will start with your thread #44

I do save to each particular pbem folder

here is the issue, at the point of hitting save#
I first have to type in everything in the file name line..which never use to be a problem

see screenie-#