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downloading those drivers fixed the problem. thanks

I have a RadeonHD 5770 graphics card, which says it supports directx11, so I don't think it's that.

I've played Civ 4 a lot (although I've never gotten any good at it), and I just bought Civ 5, but I'm having some problems and questions. 1) It says I can play with directx 9, or directx10 &11. What is Directx? I have windows 7, does that come with some directx installed? If so, which one...

I've never really been an aggressive strategy game player. Even in Age of Mythology (if anyone's played that), I'd just build massive defenses and focus growth in my kingdom. The problem is, harder levels of Civ4 and opposing players like to kill me (obviously). I know that the best defense is a...

My friend just got Civilization IV Warlords, and we are trying to play it online, but she is having a problem. She installed the expansion pack, and the title screen came up fine. She went to multiplayer, Internet Games, Login, and she came upon the multiplayer screen. A window popped up...

What do you mean by this? The more gold I make per turn, the more research I make?

I can't remember which religios building it is that boosts research, but if I have one of those from each religion in my city, does that boost my research 10% for each one? What if I have all of them from all the religions in 4 cities? And is that 10% a base 10%, or 10% of what my current...

Sometimes when I play, for no apparent reason, the game does something weird. It stops telling me when I've finished researching/building something and the green button that signals when a turn is over will not turn red, and I have to click it manually to end the turn. Why is this happening...

When I (i'm a noob) start a game, the first thing I do it try to found a city near water where I see any resource. This lets me found it right away, usually. But should I be walking my settlers around to find a really good place, or should I just get started on building stuff?

I've come accross little + and - buttons in my city map. According to the N00B guide, these are city specialists which have benefits. The thing is, I have no idea what these benefits are worth. For example, there is a 'citizen' specialists which says "+1 hammer," but it increases the time it...

So I hear all this stuff about the Big Fat Cross, but I don't get why it's so important. A city's borders are only in that shape for a few turns, then they expand. Why should it matter if a resource is in that space or not? Edit: So, does it help at all to build regular farms, cottages...

When the cultural borders of two cities join them together, what happens? Let's say I had one city with all cottages, and another with all mines. If they joined, would they each reap the same ammount of gold and production bonuses? If not, where is the line drawn?

I've read strategy guides, but Civ IV is still a bit overwhelming at first. As far as I understand it, food tiles let a city increase its population over time, which results in faster building. Does that mean that building TONS of farms will increase the population more, making building...

The tutorial told me that, when I select my settler, a blue circle will appear where it is most beneficial to found a city. However, I have seen the blue circle appear on squares that (as far as I can tell) have less resources on that tile than the tile right next to it. What are the criteria...