Androo
Chieftain
Before installing the most recent patch, I had a very annoying but not fatal problem: whenever I started a game, it would lock the entire system up after creating the world but before I could start playing. Leonard Nimoy would begin talking; it would give me the button to click to begin playing the game; it would say I had entered the game and give me the warrior icon, but the game would lock up. I could only do a hard power-off and reboot. However, I could then load the newly created autosave file and play perfectly well. For hours I never had the lockup problems other folks with ATI cards reported, other than that. A few other people seemed to be having this problem, but nobody on the forums seemed to have any answers for it. Since I could play, I just rebooted every time I started a new game, and then played fine after that.
However, after doing other things for a few months, I just installed the patch and now I cant load newly created initial autosaves -- now it locks up just like it does when creating them. Again, it looks like its going to work: it loads okay, and then locks before I can center on the warrior icon. It plays the music for a few seconds and then locks the system up.
I have a Compaq notebook with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 card, 1 GB of RAM. Again, this notebook ran this game perfectly well before (on the highest graphic settings), other than the fact that it locked up only when CREATING a game. After that, I could load the autosave and play for 10 hours straight if I wanted to. Now I cant do anything.
Things Ive tried: every version of the ATI drivers I could track down, though with terrible success. The apparently excellent 4.12 drivers wont run on this hardware. The Omega drivers seem not to support the widescreen display on this laptop or something; I get flickering, multiple images whenever I install them. I am apparently stuck with the ATI drivers from Compaq.
I tried running Civ in a window and got the same thing; it locked the whole laptop up. I've tried using a tiny world only, but with no success. I've removed and reinstalled the entire game from scratch, and can confirm that the problem becomes fatal only after installing the 1.61 patch.
I've wondered if perhaps the problem is related to sound drivers; Leonard Nimoy doesn't begin talking until after I get the "play game" button (instead of while the world's being created), and the sound skips while it's loading. I have something called "SoundMAX integrated audio," and the only drivers that seem to be available are the ones I got from Compaq, so I can't try other drivers.
As I said, before applying the patch, the game ran great except that it locked up like this only when creating a game; now it locks up every time I try to load the game. Very strange. Searching the forums reveals that a few other folks have had this problem, but few answers (other than changing video drivers, which unfortunately I don't seem to be able to do). I am mystified; any suggestions would be great.
However, after doing other things for a few months, I just installed the patch and now I cant load newly created initial autosaves -- now it locks up just like it does when creating them. Again, it looks like its going to work: it loads okay, and then locks before I can center on the warrior icon. It plays the music for a few seconds and then locks the system up.
I have a Compaq notebook with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 card, 1 GB of RAM. Again, this notebook ran this game perfectly well before (on the highest graphic settings), other than the fact that it locked up only when CREATING a game. After that, I could load the autosave and play for 10 hours straight if I wanted to. Now I cant do anything.
Things Ive tried: every version of the ATI drivers I could track down, though with terrible success. The apparently excellent 4.12 drivers wont run on this hardware. The Omega drivers seem not to support the widescreen display on this laptop or something; I get flickering, multiple images whenever I install them. I am apparently stuck with the ATI drivers from Compaq.
I tried running Civ in a window and got the same thing; it locked the whole laptop up. I've tried using a tiny world only, but with no success. I've removed and reinstalled the entire game from scratch, and can confirm that the problem becomes fatal only after installing the 1.61 patch.
I've wondered if perhaps the problem is related to sound drivers; Leonard Nimoy doesn't begin talking until after I get the "play game" button (instead of while the world's being created), and the sound skips while it's loading. I have something called "SoundMAX integrated audio," and the only drivers that seem to be available are the ones I got from Compaq, so I can't try other drivers.
As I said, before applying the patch, the game ran great except that it locked up like this only when creating a game; now it locks up every time I try to load the game. Very strange. Searching the forums reveals that a few other folks have had this problem, but few answers (other than changing video drivers, which unfortunately I don't seem to be able to do). I am mystified; any suggestions would be great.
