Civ 4 affecting other games?

[trutch]

I've been having a problem with Civ running on my machine where after a couple of minutes the textures go weird and strange polygons are shown over the screen. I was hoping the patch would sort this out but it hasnt so I've installed all the newest drivers etc and still get the problem.

However, I've now found that the problems that appeared in Civ have now somehow started cropping up in other games that have I've never had a problem with. Biggest problem has been with Counter Strike: Source.

I've uninstalled Civ and suddenly my other games work fine again! Has anyone else had a similar problem, and how did they solve it? I don't really know much about graphics cards and their options so don't really want to muck about with those to much.

Thanks

 

[gunnergoz]

Well, for one thing it may be that these other games objected to DirectX as installed (and deinstalled) by the game. They may not be compatible with that version and prefer running under the older one that pre-dates your Civ4 install.

 

[trutch]

From the logic you are using then arent you saying that Civ 4 isn't compatible with the version of Direct X that it installs itself as the errors appear in Civ as well?

Would seem a bit odd that so many people don't have the same errors as me that are probably using the new version of Direct X, and their other games are running fine.