Hello, I've been searching around for an answer to my problems but couldn't find any previous posts about it, so I had to start a new one.
A friend and I have been playing multiplayer civ4 for years on windows XP via the multiplayer lobby with only the normal issues there. We started playing the Rise of Mankind mod that way as well, loading the mod and then going to the multiplayer screen, noticed that only RoM mod games would show up in the lobby once that was done, no problem! However, I upgraded my computer and OS to windows 8, had to repurchase Civ4 (i had the physical copy of Civ4 complete before but the disk has long since been lost), and did so thru Steam D2D. I got RoM back in and tested it single player, worked fine. Tried to make a new multiplayer game the same as we've always done and our games are not showing up in the lobby. Didn't worry about it because he was upgrading to windows 7 anyhow, and with that upgrade could make C2C possible. so after he upgraded to 7, dl'd C2C, we tried to connect again and same issue. our vanilla games are fine, as well as the vanilla mods, we can connect with those fine, but none of our player created mod games will show up in the lobby. I assume, and could be incorrect, that this issue is because i used steam this time around, and he does not. anyone know? i tried removing all the civ4 info from the steam folder and making it its own folder thinking i could bypass steam but this does not work as steam seems to have embedded itself within the civ files.
anyone know a fix?
A friend and I have been playing multiplayer civ4 for years on windows XP via the multiplayer lobby with only the normal issues there. We started playing the Rise of Mankind mod that way as well, loading the mod and then going to the multiplayer screen, noticed that only RoM mod games would show up in the lobby once that was done, no problem! However, I upgraded my computer and OS to windows 8, had to repurchase Civ4 (i had the physical copy of Civ4 complete before but the disk has long since been lost), and did so thru Steam D2D. I got RoM back in and tested it single player, worked fine. Tried to make a new multiplayer game the same as we've always done and our games are not showing up in the lobby. Didn't worry about it because he was upgrading to windows 7 anyhow, and with that upgrade could make C2C possible. so after he upgraded to 7, dl'd C2C, we tried to connect again and same issue. our vanilla games are fine, as well as the vanilla mods, we can connect with those fine, but none of our player created mod games will show up in the lobby. I assume, and could be incorrect, that this issue is because i used steam this time around, and he does not. anyone know? i tried removing all the civ4 info from the steam folder and making it its own folder thinking i could bypass steam but this does not work as steam seems to have embedded itself within the civ files.
anyone know a fix?