Hey folks,
I get CtD on loading FfH, before the start screen appears.
The same with oher mods, coming in package with BtS. I tried starting from Civ main menu / advanced / load a mod and with Mod Chooser (very useful little program). Strangely enough I can start a FfH game by clicking on a savegame file.
Vanilla BtS and Civ start smoothly.


This is the error msg I get (the hwnd number differs every time):

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/108597/error.jpg


Does anybody have any idea what causes the problem? I already tried reinstalling DirectX 9c, coming with Civ and with BtS, no change.

Edit: heh, I just realized that I didn't go to Civ4 technical problems forum, but here :)

try ticking the 'no movies' box in the options menu and seeing if that makes any difference. I'd bet what's stuffing up there is the FFH opening movie.

You can also try updating your graphics driver, if you're comfortable with that. Older drivers have problems creating textures with certain sizes (non-power of 2, to be exact).

You probably got either an nVidia, ATi oder Intel graphics adapter (you can check that in Windows' display settings). Here's a few quick links to their driver pages:

nVidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
ATi: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
Intel: http://www.intel.com/support/index.htm?iid=homepage+hdr_nav1_support

It works with 'no movies'.

I got ATI X1600 in a laptop. Using the link from Vanion I downloaded the last version (from Dec 2007, so newer than I got now) but it says it wouldn't install on my comp.
I guess I'll be living with no movies then.

Thanks for help guys :)

Ah, yes... the infamous ATi Mobility drivers ;-)

For some reason ATi doesn't offer official drivers for their mobile graphics adapters (at least they didn't when I was looking for them, and I didn't find a download now either), so some clever people hack the desktop GPU drivers for use on a mobile chipset. Works for my old 9700 Mobility in my notebook, else I'd be stuck with 2 or 3 year old drivers from my notebook manufacturer.

If you wanna give them a try (as a bonus, you might see some performance gains, too!), here's some additional linkage:

Win XP / 2000: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1817

If you're running Vista, you're out of luck at the moment - Omega Drivers for Vista aren't ready at the moment.

This driver seems to work (luckily I got XP, as I dislike Vista) , thanks again :)

But I wonder what caused the problem. There were no changes in my system, at least none that I was aware of...

Well, it's an old driver problem, really. Videos are drawn as (animated) textures in DirectX, and the FfH Videos have custom resolutions (at least the few I checked). Old drivers don't support drawing textures with custom resolutions and are limited to width/height in powers of 2.

Then again, it could be any other bug in the old drivers as well. Glad to see your problem fixed!