Recent content by auldian

I spent over $100 getting Civ 4 completed by the expansions. I'm not going to do that again, and it's clear this is even more unfinished than Civ 4 was at release. I've been fooled twice now. I'm not paid to beta-test or design 2K's games. I will find more interesting ways to spend my...

Thank you! :)

Should a player use Better BTS AI or Unofficial Patch for 3.19?

Installed Civ IV and BTS flawlessly. I updated via patches downloaded from CFC with no issues. I had already installed the downloadable DirectX from Microsoft prior to installing Civ. I've been playing on my new operating system for a month without any crashes or freezes.

Try 1920 x 1080. That's your displays native resolution. The example I pasted is the text from the developers notes; it's a generic example. ScreenHeight = 1080 ScreenWidth = 1920

Try manually setting your display's native resolution in the My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\CivilizationIV.ini file. (your path may vary) These are the lines in the file: ; Custom Screen Height, minimum: 768 - Normal resolutions can be set in-game and will be used when set to 0...

The file on CFC seems to download alright.

Well, it's worked pretty well for a number of years now. Kudos to the team for the most popular graphics mod.

ColdFever, You have my best wishes also. I hope your treatment is successful and you're up and about sooner than expected. Happy Holidays, Joel

Make sure you have installed 2 things: 1. The most recent drivers for your graphics chipset from Acer or SiS. 2. The most recent DirectX at Microsoft's site, even though you're sporting DirectX 10. Ratchet down the options for graphics to as low as they'll go in the game's Options menus. Let...

This is a driver issue that can sometimes be avoided by doing a rather aggressive driver update. I say aggressive because the nvidia fansites recommend an uninstall, a boot to safe mode, a 3rd party driver cleaner, etc., and finally the new driver install. I saw this happen yesterday on my rig...

go to microsoft's website and install it.

Thanks for posting the solution!

I run the blue marble from a temp folder when I install it. It'll find Civ ... at least on my rig it does.

Mine are in \\Users\<user name>\Documents\My Games\Beyond the Sword. It's a CivilizationIV.ini located in the BtS folder in My Document > My Games. A backup of it is also created with a .bak extension. You can delete both to create a fresh copy and reselect your options from there. My hidden...