black land solution (definitive)

[Pavelitruz]

Please i need help,i have the bug of the "Black Land" i try everything,install drivers,patches, but it does not work,please Help me

Sorry for my english

 

[ori]

please post your dxdiag results file.

Welcome to CFC

 

[Pavelitruz]

i think is uploaded...

And thanks

 

[ori]

your graphics card is below minimum specs - the Radeon 7000 does not have hardware transform and lightning (i.e. the 3D calculations are not done on the card). You might get lucky with
1) Civ4 patched to 1.74
2) DirectX updated: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&DisplayLang=en
3) Your graphics driver updated: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/radeon-prer300-xp.aspx

Edit: oh and for good measure: your windows xp install is not uptodate - its advisable to install service pack 3 and any other updates (won't affect this though).

 

[Pavelitruz]

ok,thanks,but i played civ 4 in another times and i havent that problem,with the system i have now,the same video crad,the same hard disk,the sam RAM memory...

 

[ori]

did you update the game since? it is possible that one of the patches actually changed how the game handles the graphics... you might instead need to go back to a previous patch version...

 

[Pavelitruz]

i will try it,thanks for the help
i will inform the results

Edited:Sorry ,but how i can install a previous patch? i have 3.19 version,,how i can install...i dont know.. 3.03 version?

 

[ori]

you need to uninstall and reinstall unfortunately and then only patch to the version you want.

 

[Pavelitruz]

Nothing

 

[ori]

did you install any other programs/windows updates just before this occurred?

 

[Pavelitruz]

MMM....no,nothing,this bug is terrible,because,i have another problems,the movies are "laged"
the game runs slowly,but in other times i play excelent!!!

Sorry for my english