HannibalBarca
Chieftain
- Joined
- Nov 28, 2005
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Okay...I bought Civilization IV about a week ago, using some $ I had got for my birthday. After reading all the reviews, I was sure that this was a pretty good game... 
It didn't work the first time, taking upwards to 15 minutes to load a new game and having black terrain when it started (instead of a typical crash to the desktop) I took this to mean I needed a new video card, so I sprang for a GeForce 6600X. After installing this, the game worked wonderfully until about 30 minutes into the game, I get a CtD. (I cannot load saves auto or otherwise...after loading finishes half the screen truns black, the other half white and locks up) Ok, so I need more RAM, right?
I get a Gig of RAM, install that and the game works wonderfully, without any CtDs until I had to leave, whereupon I shut the game down, fully expecting it to work when I got back...
After installing another game (Blitzkrieg 2) I play it for a while, get bored, and pop in Civ 4. Once again, the game runs wonderfully...until....I build Stonehenge. Boom. Blue Screen of Death. Many obsceneties. I download the patch, expecting it to fix everything...how naive of me.
The patch causes another 15+ minute load time, whereupon the terrain is a sickening quilt of purple, blue and green. Sigh.... I uninstall the game and reinstall it, whereupon the game starts up after much grumbling. I disabled wonder movies to see if that would help. Instead, I am greeted with open arms by a horribly sluggish game. (ON LOW GRAPHICS FOR GOD'S SAKE) Oh yeah, and when the terrain isn't the sickening quilt, it has black spotches where my settler and scout/warrior spawn. Joy.
So I am right back where I started, and barring some miraculous fix that someone can produce
I wil consider returning this game. I have been a Civ fan since finding ToT at a flea market, and I am SICKENED. SEE IF I BUY CIV 5 JERKS!
It didn't work the first time, taking upwards to 15 minutes to load a new game and having black terrain when it started (instead of a typical crash to the desktop) I took this to mean I needed a new video card, so I sprang for a GeForce 6600X. After installing this, the game worked wonderfully until about 30 minutes into the game, I get a CtD. (I cannot load saves auto or otherwise...after loading finishes half the screen truns black, the other half white and locks up) Ok, so I need more RAM, right?
I get a Gig of RAM, install that and the game works wonderfully, without any CtDs until I had to leave, whereupon I shut the game down, fully expecting it to work when I got back...
After installing another game (Blitzkrieg 2) I play it for a while, get bored, and pop in Civ 4. Once again, the game runs wonderfully...until....I build Stonehenge. Boom. Blue Screen of Death. Many obsceneties. I download the patch, expecting it to fix everything...how naive of me.
The patch causes another 15+ minute load time, whereupon the terrain is a sickening quilt of purple, blue and green. Sigh.... I uninstall the game and reinstall it, whereupon the game starts up after much grumbling. I disabled wonder movies to see if that would help. Instead, I am greeted with open arms by a horribly sluggish game. (ON LOW GRAPHICS FOR GOD'S SAKE) Oh yeah, and when the terrain isn't the sickening quilt, it has black spotches where my settler and scout/warrior spawn. Joy.
So I am right back where I started, and barring some miraculous fix that someone can produce
I wil consider returning this game. I have been a Civ fan since finding ToT at a flea market, and I am SICKENED. SEE IF I BUY CIV 5 JERKS!
