Crash on startup during Init Engine

boak

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Game has worked fine for a long time on this PC but all of a sudden it crashes on start up 100% of the time during the "Init Engine" phase. I'm using the Steam version of Civilization 4 Beyond the Sword with the latest patch.

I have attached a zip file containing full logs and the application crash dump file.

Here's a list of things I've tried to fix the problem:

- Restarting my PC
- Steam verify game
- Clear game cache from AppData
- Completely remove and reinstall from Steam
- Removing My Documents/My Games/Beyond The Sword/ and relaunching

Please help, this is driving me insane.
 

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Greetings,

I had a Windows XP with the problem you are describing (game crashes at startup). At any rate, if your OS is XP, try the following:

Open: My Games\Beyond the sword\civilizationIV.ini

Set the following item:
;Set to 1 for no intro movie
NoIntroMovie = 0

to

;Set to 1 for no intro movie
NoIntroMovie = 1

Make sure the changes are in the original file and not the backup; otherwise, the changes will revert back to original settings. If this does not work, you can always return to your original settings. I hope it helps.
 
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