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When I first installed freeciv 2.5.4 it worked great. Then I tried to add modpacks and ever since then I get this screen of death. I have tried deleting and redownloading/installing more than 3 times (lost count) and I tried deleting any file that says freeciv or tileset and cleaning up with CCleaner before trying again. Nothing works.

ModPacks should be in your AppData directory, not the install directory. If the modpack installer can't remove them (I don't use it?) then you'll have to go into appdata manually and do so.

Lunchalot wrote:Then I tried to add modpacks and ever since then I get this screen of death.

The problem is that the tileset you have selected is missing some graphic. You can fix it by selecting another tileset. Start by reinstalling Freeciv. Do not delete anything it installs. Go to the command line. You can select the tileset from the command line via the -t option. The full command is "wanted_client -t wanted_tileset" Replace "wanted_client" with the Freeciv client you want and "wanted_tileset" with the freeciv tileset you want. On my (GNU/Linux) system the command is . I'm unable to translate my instructions to the Windows world. If you have the same problem try asking the forum's Windows users for help.

You could try starting freeciv with civ2 ruleset (it does not have terrain type "Inaccessible" added to many rulesets in 2.5). Since you seem to be running server separately, try 'rulesetdir civ2' in it.
Once in game, try changing tileset stored to client preferences.