Civilization IV: Warlords v2.13 NoCD

[nando2002]

Originally Posted by wolfsrain

If you wanna play the Warlords scenarios or mods based on Civ4: Warlords you need the original disc.
Civ4 Warlords(like Beyond the Sword) it's using a different exe file. The protection was updated on that exe file also. That's why so many requests for crack.

Well, if that's true - I won't go against your word - then why there are no such EXE (Civ4Warlord.exe) in Patch 2.13?
I based my study on the Patches. I opened both, extract anything inside them, create a list with i6comp.
Now, I think that if people install patch 2.13 but don't install Beyond the Sword add-on they should be OK for play.

Now, If you open the Data1.HDR (from the Beyond the Sword add-on) with any editor and seek for warlord EXE, you won't find it.

[Obina]

I bought both Civ4 and Warlords (about US$40 each), and both disks are in perfect shape. Unfortunately, the local distributor included some buggy cd-checking routine in the Warlords CD and after patching to 2.08 months ago it stopped working, and gave a (false) message like "insert correct CD/DVD". Luckily, I was able to get the 2.08 no-cd .exe from GCW, and could play again.

Now that 2.13 is up, I tried patching and got the same error message again. Until a no-CD .exe for 2.13 is out, I won't be able to play the updated version. That's what I got for supporting the local software industry. I can only hope that eventually they'll provide a fix. I went to their site and discovered that months later the international patch was released, they have a fixed official 2.08 patch.

Therefore, I'd be very happy if a 2.13 no-cd or fixed patch could be made available.

p.s. oddly enough, no such problem with the "vanilla" Civ - 1.61 and 1.74 run fine.