Recent content by Giddy

Hi Ori, I do believe you have solved my problem!! I made all the adjustments you suggested, and although the video quality is slightly down, it is not enough to worry me - but best of all, I have just played the game for two hours, and not once did it freeze - Wonderful! Thank you for...

I didn't even know there was a file called civilizationIV.ini, but I have now had a look at it, and don't have a clue what to change, although this would seem to be a place to make some alterations which (Hopefully) could solve my problem. I see most of the parameters are set at "0", is that...

Thanks Ori, I will ignore the Patch route for the time being - Any other ideas that may help me solve my conundrum? It is really frustrating playing the game - I have to save after every time a move a unit, and certainly every time before I end my turn, as it almost always freezes when I do...

Hi Ori, I have Civ 4 complete on DVD. Warlords and BtS are installed, but I have never loaded them - I believe they are even more resource hungry than Civ 4

I have downloaded two patches - Civ4_1.61 and Civ4Patch1.74_Final, but am unable to run either. When I try either of them, I get an error message "The setup has detected that no version of Sid Meier's Civilization 4 is installed. This update requires that a previous version of the...

I reported the error to Microsoft, and they came back with the following:- "Manually decrease hardware acceleration for your video adaptor. This procedure prevents the display device driver from programming the hardware incorrectly, but you might lose some display functionality and...

Hi BirraImperial and BordenMN, I have updated my drivers, I have version 169.21 on an nVidia GeForce 6150 card. I have previously had Myst3 Exile and The Sims 2 on my computer (Both now removed), and they both played without any problems. I don't believe that anything is overheating - The...

I have tried switching off the anti virus, but no change. Anyone else got an idea? This is really getting my goat - it is the second edition of Civ that has given me an unsolvable problem - there must be something in my computer that is different, but I can't begin to guess what it is.

Thanks, The log on is now fixed! I did auto download .net 1.1, and have a new user called asp.net, which must have co-incidentally come about just when I installed Civ. The crash situation has just become worst and worse, to the point where I can't even get through a turn in the present...

One other thing, which may or may not be pertinent. Since installing CIV, my welcome screen has gone back to requiring me to click on my user name to complete the boot. Previously, as I only have one active user, the machine used to bypass this and boot directly into me as user. Any idea...

No, it only happens with Civ. Apart from that, my computer seems pretty stable.

No strange noises, just a reboot. The file is attached (I hope!)

Hi Ori, No error message, the game freezes, (says it is waiting for other civilizations, but there is no movement of units), the screen goes black after a few seconds, and then my computer reboots.

Hi, I am new to the forum, and pretty new to Civ IV. I have only played one game (Not yet finished it) but I find that it keeps crashing, so that even with the "auto save" every 4 turns, I have to save after every turn so as not to have to go back and do stuff again. I am not very computer...