I just bought Civ IV from Direct2Drive. After installing it, I go to play it and when I'm selecting a civilization to play with, the game stops working. The screen goes black but the sound continues like normal. When I go to the task manager it says that Civ IV is not responding. I'm desperate to get this working but nothing I do helps at all. I am in no way a computer expert and I need serious help on this.
Civ IV freezes before starting a game
- Thread starter Greyce
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Welcome to CFC 
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Do i understand it right, that it crashes when you select a leader on the civilization list?
What does happen if you go with "random"?
Can you look at the civs/leaders in the civilopedia?
Also some information about your system would be helpful, what operationg system you have, what graphics card, etc.
.Do i understand it right, that it crashes when you select a leader on the civilization list?
What does happen if you go with "random"?
Can you look at the civs/leaders in the civilopedia?
Also some information about your system would be helpful, what operationg system you have, what graphics card, etc.
Furiey
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Click on the Windows button in the bottom left and type dxdiag in the search box. It should find dxdiag.exe, click on it to run it and use the button along the bottom (next to the exit button) to save all information. Add the resulting file as an attachment to a post here.
Furiey
No Longer Just Lurking
Furiey
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When you installed the game, how did you install it, eg: did you right click on the setup file and select run as administrator or did you just doubleclick on it to run?
Furiey
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Try uninstalling then re-installing using right-click and run as administrator.
Furiey
No Longer Just Lurking
Is your user account an administrator account?
Right click on the .exe file (not a shortcut to it). Run as administrator should be the option after open. If not, select Properties (bottom of the options) and choose the compatability tab. There is a setting towards the bottom for Privilege Level to allow the program to run as administrator, check that then apply and close the properties, you should be able to double click on the file and still run it as administrator then.
Right click on the .exe file (not a shortcut to it). Run as administrator should be the option after open. If not, select Properties (bottom of the options) and choose the compatability tab. There is a setting towards the bottom for Privilege Level to allow the program to run as administrator, check that then apply and close the properties, you should be able to double click on the file and still run it as administrator then.
