Not sure why this is happening. My PC is not great and uses a terrible built-in Intel motherboard graphics card -- but it does run Civ4 with almost no problems (a little sluggish mid- to late-game, but that it). I run Civ4 everything turned to "Low," 1024x768 resolution. I DO NOT have Frozen Animations on.
LoR also mostly works. But there are some awful, game-breaking graphical glitches. Here's what's happened:
- I can't watch wonder movies anymore. The movies come up and the music/sfx play, but the movie screen is a mish-mash of colours and lines.
- I'm the Vikings, and the horsemen I was making last night were phantom horsemen -- I could move them around and use them fine, but the only part of them I could see was their little skullcap. No body, no horse. When I was fighting, I think he swung a little axe. Seemed to be animated -- just no textures or model in sight.
- The Incas started sending out galleys, and instead of a galley, I saw a little red bubble in the water.
In addition to this, I don't get an LoR-specific start-up screen when I start the game. It uses Warlords instead, for some reason.
I haven't tried restarting my computer and seeing if that fixes everything (reboots take upwards of 15 minutes) -- but any ideas as to what may be causing these problems? Again, I have no problems with the graphics in vanilla Civ4.