Bug with DirectX...

[MRick]

OK. I just got cIV this morning for christmas !

I was so excited...

But now I'm so desapointed !

First the game showed some strange things on the screen, and then crashed when I launched It.

Ok, maybe a video dirver problem I thought. So I upgraded my catalyst drivers to the latest version.

Well it is a little better, the game does not crash anymore.

Now I got this :

And it doesn't work after that, it closes.

I've seen on this forum that there are a lot of people reporting problems with ATI cards.

I've got a Radeon 9600 Pro with 256 MB.
My PC is a Pentium4 @ 3GHz, with 1024 MB RAM, and I'm running WinXP SP2, up to date.

I've seen several people talking about a solution on this site :

http://www.2kgames.com/civ4/support.htm

But I guess I'm not the only one beeing offered cIV for Christmas, and this website is unaccessible, I got bits of webpages, and that's about 1h30 I'm trying to access it now !

Anyone can help Me ?

 

[Jawsofwar]

I had same problem today also. (Christmas day Gift) The problem is fixed though once I installed the latest patch for the game. (1.52) There is a link to download it on this website. Hope that fixes the issue!

 

[MRick]

Finally I was able to connect to the website.

The solution is explained here :
http://www.2kgames.com/civ4/support_ati.htm

The first part (uninstalling and reinstalling) did nothing, but the unpacking of the art files worked !

Now the game works !

Merry ChristMas !