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I believe that setting the AGP Speed to Off is what is causing the extreme slowness (though I'm not sure why). I set it back up to 4x and then made the changes suggested in the Temp Solution To Blackness Problem thread. Now the terrain shows up and the game runs smooth even at the highest...

That does appear to resolve the black terrain issue, but the game is still virtually unplayable due to extreme lagginess of the camera and interface.

Here is how I fixed the black terrain issue (assuming you have the Omega drivers installed)... Go into advanced properties for your display Go to the SMARTGART tab Set the AGP Speed to Off Reboot After doing this, terrain shows up fine in the game. However, it is painfully slow, as in...

Thanks for the info. Can you point me to where this change is documented? Also, is anyone with a Radeon 7500 able to play the game (once you get past the terrain issue)?

I bought Civ4 for my wife for her birthday (well, at least partially...) and it arrived today. After installing, I ran into the black landscape issue which I fixed by turning off AGP Speed in the SMARTGART settings for the Omega drivers. The game now runs, but is pretty much unplayable due to...