Civ 4/Warlords/Beyond the Sword dont start

[vadym]

I yesterday install civ 4. Today I start it. I click one, two , three times on different versions, but no one of them wanted to start!! I make a "Scannow" before installation, I have Windows 7 and a Intel Q35 Grafic Card.

A month ago I had it but it was borrow from a libary and I have to deinstall it and give the CD back. At this time Civ 4 and Warlords worked without bigger problems, but in BTS everything was very slow(moving on the map and moving units).

I need quickly help!!!

 

[s.bernbaum]

It is most likely that the problem that you are having is due to a security update that MSFT released last fall. Among other things it prevented the copy protection scheme used by many older games, including CIV, from working properly. The result is that when the game tries to access the copy protection program to verify the disc, it is unable to do so and the game won't start up. Since you are using WIndows 7, you can work around the problem, in order to get the game to start up. The work around is discussed in the thread "Please login with administrator privileges and try again" below in this forum.

Another option is to buy the "Beyond the Sword" (BTS) expansion disc for the game and install the game patch 3.19, which you can download for free from the "Patch & Update" section of these forums. BTS patched to 3.19 no longer uses any copy protection, so it works fine without the work around.

BTW, if you "upgrade" to Windows 10, the work around will no longer work because MSFT removed the copy protection software entirely, rather than turning it off, which is what the Windows 7 patch did. BTS will still work with Windows 10.

The final option, which probably won't do you much good, is to buy the download online version of CIV from one of the content providers. Those don't use the now deactivated copy protection scheme.