ATI Graphics Card Owners: PLEASE READ

Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 128MB RAM

Catalyst version: 5.7 I think, not the latest I'm certain.

Awesome card in terms of dollar value for performance, at least that was true about 9 to 12 months ago! The 9600XT architecture was one of the starting points for the newer lines of ATI cards.

--Julian

 

Same issue Dell D600 same driver and card.

 

*sigh of relief*

 

I had a lot of problems with my ATI X850XT with Civ IV with the regular ATI catalyst drivers. My friend recommended the Omega Drivers.
http://www.omegadrivers.net/

The latest version uses a new beta driver that seems to work with Civ IV. I highly recommend it if you havn't tried it yet.

 

There's a trend growing here. Radeon <SERIES NUMBER> XT cards seem to be the ones having problems. The Pro variations of the same cards seem to run just fine. I've noticed players with x850 XTs can't render no matter how many times they clean their drivers, but my x850 Pro installed and ran on the first try...

 

ATi Radeon X800XL [or was it the XT? Damn, I'm too young not to remember that] .
ATI Catalyst version 1.1.1858.40280 [Anyone think THAT should be updated besides me?]
Game won't even start, when the game attempts to start-up it fails before even going full-screen, says "Failed to Initialize Renderer - Check DirectX Version and Graphics Settings".

Direct X version was 9.0c before I even installed the game. Once the game had this problem I installed the one that came with the game just to be sure, still didn't work. I then installed a fresh copy of DirectX right off Microsofts website, still no worky.

To top it off, I'm having other video-card related problems since I installed Civ IV, the video card is just crawling along like someone tied a lead brick to it. This must have been caused by either Civ4 or the changes in DirectX, becuase an hour before I was playing BF2 just fine, and I haven't installed or messed with anything since then [other than Civ4]

Not a virus issue either, I don't surf the web on the game-box except to update games/system stuff, and I have a good firewall and virus-scan running. I've basically done nothing on this system other than play BF2 for the last few weeks, and now I install Civ4 and something went kablewy.

I'm probably going to update the ATI driver first, and see what happens, if it still doesn't work, i'm uninstalling Civ and not messing thing up anymore than they are until someone fixes this issue.

I'm not happy about this one bit.

 

Uninstalled game, video card issues mentioned before went away... This takes the ticket for oddest issue of the last three months.

Not sure what, but for some reason having Civ4 installed just messes up my ATI card... Or maybe something else. I'm going to try updating my ATI drivers [which, it seems, SERIOUSLY need updating... not sure how I overlooked it].

Will report back.

 

Card: ATI 9600 XT 256MB
Driver: Omega 2.6.75a
Doesn't work

I have tried all the fixes other people have suggested:
unistalled and reinstalled the driver
installed DX 9.0c that came with the game
changed ini file to not use fullscreen
changed screen resolution to 1024x768

Nothing has worked - am still getting the "Failed to initialize renderer" ERROR.

 

Called tech support and they told me my driver was outdated (whatever). Anyway they directed me to nvidia.com and I downloaded a version of GeForce MX 420 version 6.14.0010.5673.

That takes care of one issue but I have several more bugs to play through.

I've been playing Civ III for about two years now and this game makes me feel like a 1st grader. A lot to learn!

 

I have exactly the same and I agree. Glad it works with you, got hope now

 

Card: X800 XT
Driver: 6.14.10.6497 (12/7/2004)

Works fine.

 

Seems my observation about it being a Radeon XT variant issue is holding true.

Murdock, is your ATI card an XT or Pro (ie. x300 XT, x300 Pro)?

 

Card: Sapphire Raddeon 9600 ATlantis

i don't have the game yet, but is there anybody who has this card? If so can you tell me if it works or not and how to fix it?

Thanks in advance!

 

Same issue for Dell 600m
mobility radeon 9000
Driver 6.13.10.6279

 

ATI mobility 9600
Catalyst Drivers

The game works, but I get a Blue Screen of Death after extended periods of play.

 

Card: 9600XT
Driver Version: 8.18.0.0
Works / Doesn't work: Doesn't Work.

 

I really can't tell you without either opening the system up or finding the box... I just upgraded to this a few months ago and I already don't remember .

I don't think it's a Pro... I'm pretty sure it's an X-something... Maybe an XT, maybe an XL... Both of those snag my memory... I'm not even sure they made an XL .

If updating the drivers doesn't fix it, I'll check exactly what card it is and post it.

 

I have this card and am having issues.

 

Radeon users: Make sure you have the latest Catalyst drivers. 5.07 did not work with my Powercolor 9600 Pro 400MHz. Had to install 5.10.

 

9500pro/9700 128mb ddr
Catalyst 5.10's
Works GREAT

The Catalyst 5.10 driver is quite new also...not more than 10 days I'd say.