when playing civ 4, warlords and bts, whenever i build a city, end a turn or try to enter world builder, i get an error message saying that "civ 4 has stopped working, windows is checking for a solution....." has anybody encountered this?

specs.

vista 64-bit system (has worked on this system before)
2 GB RAM
700 GB hard drive
NEW monitors (have not played civ with this monitor before encountering this problem) samsung 22" LCD monitor

please respond if you know whats going on.

back to xp and an analog crt for you

Clear the cache and uninstall. Delete the Firaxis and Civilization keys from the registry as best you can.
Reboot.
Reinstall the games, rebooting after each, then apply the 3.13 patch.
Reinstall DirectX from August using the downloadable "redistributable".
Reboot.
Give it a try. Let us know how it goes.

great, i'll do my best for that, i was hoping i wouldn't have to spend all day reinstalling everything :S thanks for the help anyways.

can you tell me if that worked cuz my civ 4 does the same thing and i can't fix it. i have tried downloading patches, but nothing has worked... please someone let me know how to fix this.

i found no eassy solution, i reinstalled the game, then i put in the expansion pack, when prompted to download the patch 1.61 i turned it down. i am not going to patch the game and if i cant play online, too bad,i suck anyways