Graphic Error

Hi, while I am greatly enjoying Civilization 4 right now (even so I need to figure out what works best against a archer), but I have been encountering a annoying grahpic error that happens sometimes to certain units. Here is a screenshot of what I am talking about.

http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/rirse/graphicerror.png

I have a GeForce 6600GT graphic card and 2200 AMD Sempron, and the game is running very good other then this problem.

You're not alone. I'm also getting the exact same kinds of graphic corruption after playing the game for about 5-10 minutes. However, I only see it on my Radeon 9800 Pro cards, not my NVidia GF4 4600.

Here's a post I made to a different thread:

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I have two different Radeon 9800 Pro (128M video RAM) cards here, as well as an NVidia GeForce 4 4600. I have the ATI 5.10 drivers running under XP SP2 on an Intel P4 2.4GHz with 1G RAM.

With the Radeon 9800s (I've tried both), the game starts up fine, but after playing for about 10-15 minutes I start to get bizarre graphical glitches -- texture corruption and random flashing polygons everywhere.

I tried on the NVidia GF4 4600, and had no graphical glitches.

Here's examples of the corruption I'm getting:

http://foxden.org/~ben/civ4_corrupt_1.jpg
http://foxden.org/~ben/civ4_corrupt_2.jpg
http://foxden.org/~ben/civ4_corrupt_3.jpg

I notice something when I was playing earlier today. The graphic error only seems to affect the Swordman, as any other unit appears normal.

Could you please post directx diagnostics logs?

Instructions on that are here.

http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/rirse/rirsediag.txt

Here is the Direct X diaglog test results.

Iwas getting the same error when moving my settlers at about year 1795, of course i can no longer play that game because any order takes about 15 minutes to be carried out and i was sick of 45 minute turns.