ATI Graphics Card Owners: PLEASE READ

[ClanPsi]

If it doesn't work for you, it's your own fault for buying an ATI grafics card, and not NVidia like you should have in the first place.

 

[MurdockTheCrazy]

If it doesn't work for you, it's your own fault for buying an ATI grafics card, and not NVidia like you should have in the first place.

Why would I want an NVidia? I prefer the most capable cards on the market, ATI makes them. I also don't like NVidias sales tactics, dropping support on perfectly capable cards on newer games to force people to buy new cards.

If you want to drink the Kool-Aid, go ahead, but I prefer to be something other than a mindless drone .

 

[Vancouver 2010]

Card: ATI Radeon 7000
DirectX 9 installed from Civ4 CD

Attempt One:
Driver: Original driver
Status: Cheshire Cat/Black Land problem

Attempt Two:
Driver: Omega drivers
Status: "Failed to Initialize Renderer"

Attempt Three:
Driver: Catalyst 5.10 driver
Additional: Art0.pak Fix
Status: Cheshire Cat/Black Land problem

Update: Attempt Four:
Driver: Catalyst 5.10 driver
Additional: Art0.pak Fix, Reveal Map Fix
Status: Playable, but no land appears visible (ie. explored but not in LoS).
Drawbacks: All land visible, Cheshire cat problem likely persistent (didn't check).

Notes: Laptop, thus can't replace graphics card.

 

[jsol5]

Card: ATI Radeon X850 Pro
Catalyst Version: 5.8
WORKS

Just installed and played today. Had no problems whatsoever.

 

[j45kilo10]

I did some research and found a site for omega drivers, hope this helps
http://www.omegadrivers.net/

 

[emmad1329]

windows xp home
~3 ghz P4
1024 mb ram
200 gig hard drive
ati radeon x700 pro 256mb ddr

original status:
*failed blah blah blah renderer blah blah*

i did the fix that take2games recommended via a recording on phone support:
-remove ati graphics driver
-download catalyst driver v5.10 from ati.com
-reboot (and reset monitor resolution to 1024*768)
-install drivers
-reboot (and reset monitor resolution to 1024*768)


sucCESS!! works just fine, no cheshire cat or black land issues - now i just have to convince myself i really need to go to sleep tonight

 

[King Flevance]

Win XP
2.7GHz
760M RAM

ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 7500 (PCI)
6.14.10.6462
128M Vid Card

No Faces : Dark Terrain : Extremely slow game play

 

[ainwood]

Moderator Action: Ok - thanks for the info, people. I think its been useful for Firaxis.

I'll unsticky this thread now. For those of you having problems, please have a look at this thread. Its recognised that that suggested fix doesn't solve problems for Windows 2000 users, but there is a fix for them on the way.

 

[King Flevance]

Win XP
2.7GHz
760M RAM

ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 7500 (PCI)
Driver Provider: ATI Technologies Inc.
Driver Version: 6.14.10.6462
128M Vid Card

No Faces : Dark Terrain : Extremely slow game play

Update this
for omega drivers

ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 7500 (PCI)
Driver Provider: ATI Technologies Inc. (Omega 2.6.75a)
Driver Version: 8.183.0.0

Faces have shown up : Florescent terrain : Speed has resumed normal

PLEASE HELP ME GET RID OF MY RADIOACTIVE DIRT AND BLACK OCEAN TILES