Civilization 4 has encountered an error

[qury]

Okay yesterday I installed Civ 4, everything works fine.
I run the game until sometime in the early AD twice.
Quit the game, go to work, go home, start the game, crash upon crash.
Deinstall, reinstall = same issue
delete saved games etc in My Documents, delete files from C:\Program Files\.... Deinstall, Reinstall = same issue

What the hell is going on?
I've turned on logging in the ini file according to the Civ 4 support page at 2kgames. Civ4 doesn't even seem to get that far...

Anybody got a clue... anyways some more info here.

Sid Meier's Civilization 4 has encountered a problem and has to quit.
If you where working with anything the information might have been lost.

More info
Errorsignature
AppName: civilization4.exe
Appver: 0.21.0.1674
ModName: ~df394b.tmp
ModVer: 0.0.0.0
Offset: 00084c9c
System Information
Windows NT 5.1 Build: 2600
CPU Vendor Code: 756E6547 - 49646E69 - 6C65746E
CPU AMD Feature Code: 00F6E824

Exception Information
Code: 0xc0000005 Flags: 0x00000000
Record 0x00000000000000000 Address: 0x00000000066784c9c

Module 1
Civilization4.exe
Image Base: 0x00400000 Image Size: 0x00000000
Checksum: 0x00000000 Time Stamp: 0x43555c31

 

[Bence]

I have the same error.
I installed the game, just tried it, it worked fine, then later I installed it again, and now i get that error, and I have nothing in my My Games\Civ4 folder....
Anybody has tips?

 

[Natronomonas]

I don't have any specific tips, but make sure to email Take2 tech support - they won't get back to you, or will give you a cut-and-paste reply, but at least they might do something to resolving all the issues.

I've had Civ4 crash with that kind of error occasionally (mostly just CTD without any explanation though) but it's always restarted OK afterwards.

Can you get it to start at all?
Can you install it, then install the 1.09 patch (can download from this site) before starting Civ4 up? I have no idea if the patch might help but you never know...