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When I started a game, the terrain was completely black, even where I had units. When I loaded the World Editor, the terrain was illuminated, but it became black again when I closed it. In a "Future" start, the terrain was visible, but not bright.
 
The talking heads are invisible, except for a floating grin...

And dark terrain, as others have experienced.

I have a NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 64 Pro.

I don't mind running out and getting a new graphics card, but I'd like to know it'll do the trick first. Anyone have advice?

thanks!
 
Wodan said:
The talking heads are invisible, except for a floating grin...

And dark terrain, as others have experienced.

I have a NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 64 Pro.

I don't mind running out and getting a new graphics card, but I'd like to know it'll do the trick first. Anyone have advice?

thanks!
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I can't tell you if it will fix the problem you are having but, that card doesn't support T&L. So that might be the cause...
 
3DA had no apparent effect. Still, thanks for the tip on my graphics card. I'll head off to comp usa. Let you know in an hour whether it works.
 
3DA had no apparent effect. Still, thanks for the tip on my graphics card. I'll head off to comp usa. Let you know in an hour whether it works.
 
have the exact same problem.

cheshire cat floating heads that are just grins and eyes

terrain is completely black, only shows units, resources, and forests and things like that, nothing else

sony vaio t-250
 
I am having the same issues on two laptops with Radeon 7500 cards. 3DAnalyze does no good, as it will not launch the game from there. :mad:
 
move_quietly said:
have the exact same problem.

cheshire cat floating heads that are just grins and eyes

terrain is completely black, only shows units, resources, and forests and things like that, nothing else

sony vaio t-250
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This laptop has an Intel 855GME chipset that handles graphics among other things, to my knowledge it does not support T&L
 
Cheshire cat is very apt. I have the same problem, and yet I ran Pirates like a charm
 
I was able to install and run on a machine with a HT P4 3.0/915 chipset and embedded video. The rendering now appears correct, but the videos do not display.

I too was able to run Pirates on the two Radeon 7500 laptops with no issues.
 
Pirates! is not the standard. Civ IV uses the updated engine, now T&L is required.
 
I didn't even get top of the line... ended up getting a Nvidia GeForce 6200. Downloaded the latest driver from their web site (didn't use the CD that came with it of course). Anyway, works like a charm now. I didn't even realize that I was having trouble with the opening movie, which I can now see. And, no dark terrain and no cheshire cat. ;-)

Sandy
 
same problem with an intel 82865G, 96 megs ram. Problems with opening moviem dark terrain, chshire cat Sid.
 
Yeah I have a 2.66 GHz, 512 MB Ram, but an Integrated Graphics card and I am having the same problems. I figured that if my comp could run Rome Total War and its 3-D terrain and engine then I could run Civ 4. I am wrong :(
 
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