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I don't know about those other problems, but I downloaded directly from the Civ IV website after 2 failed attempts downloading through the original game. So far the install is going smoothly. I'm crossing my fingers!

***** ***** *****.. boy.. some of you gals are never happy...

It sems to have helped. I have a base system and there was much less disk access...

Were there any specifics on the new problems? I downloaded it last night, and at first I thought I had a whole new set of problems, but once the game got running it ran a lot better. The disk access was certainly fixed. I am not sure about the diplomacy yet, but at this point I think I'll...

I'm guessing everyone and their brother is trying to get it now. My progress showed 0/-1 bytes, so I knew it wasn't kicking in right. Hopefully I'll get it before I go to bed!! I don't think I read anything about sound fixes, but it looks like they addressed most of the major stuff!.

This makes me wonder how many hardware variables can affect gameplay. I have a dell with a few years on it that also plays the game fine. I recently went back to a high level of resolution, and aside from choppy sound, have no problems. Doing a defrag and registry clean have probably been my...

Can those instructions be found in greater detail for those of us who are functionally illiterate at computer-ese but can follow a set of instructions pretty well?

Wow. As far as warmongering goes, I find that I'm much more willing to go to war now. In Civ III I got my butt kicked constantly. In IV, I have learned how to wage a decent war, and the other rulers are a bit more reasonable when negotiating peace. As for the original posters other points, I...

Or act like adults. Grown ups? Mature kids? Tolerant toddlers?

Maybe on their end, the vid card/memory issues were a much easier fix than the other stuff..

Ditto. I think it is nearly perfect the way it is now. When I conquer a city, the culture is next to nothing. Then when the citizens have been beaten down, the culture expands. Of course it can't be ALL of the new Civ's culture because the people were just residents of another country!

I have to agree with the upgrade, except that if Cavalry upgraded to tanks, I think it would cost a small fortune, given the power that tanks have. Isn't there a mechanized infantry unit or something that's slightly weaker, or are tanks the lowest of the mechanized units? As for health and...

I find this sort of issue to be vastly different from Civ III. In Civ III I would often plant some small cities near the borders of a rival civ to claim some small open pieces of land before their culture claimed it. It set me up with an extra city, extra income, and extra land. In Civ IV...

Boy, I'm on the fence with posts like this. On the one hand, I certainly understand someone being particular about what they look for in a game, on the other hand, WHY must you be so picky? Do you dissect EVERY game you play, determining a number of ways in which it could be better? The fact of...

Not only is this a known bug, it's an OLD bug.. yeesh..

Nice to know I'm not alone. I used to play civ III ALL the time on my laptop. I barely leave my desktop computer now that I have CIV IV. And I haven't played III since I got IV, either. I don't think I can..

Boy, that just absolutely puzzles me. I'm running on a 1.7Ghz (which is probably what you meant) Pentium 4 with 512MB RAM and a 64MB Nvidia card. I cleaned my registry, defragged, and updated my drivers. The game went from running choppy to running pretty good on medium resolution. It...

This sounds sort of like the mislabeled disc problem. We have established that the install disc is also the play disc, even though it doesn't say so. I don't know about anyone else, but when I put the disc in, I get the install menu, but no play menu. So, original poster, try putting in the...

I think that's completely appropriate. There WASN'T any music back then. Does anyone wear headphones when they play? There are times when there is some sort of.. weird... plunk sound that jumps from one side to the other. It's pretty cool, I just have no idea what it is..

If you were here right now I would play for you the world's tiniest violin to ease your sadness....