Vanilla & Warlords both worked fine. Now, I get a crash to desktop with a nondescript error whenever I have any movies at all enabled, at the point the movie would play.
With Intro movies enabled, the CTD occurs at the beginning and I can't play. With Wonder movies enabled, the CTD occurs when I build a wonder.
I am on an hp dv9000, 1.9 GHz AMD Mobile Sempron, with an nVidia GeForce Go 6150 (I believe it is 1 GB RAM, 256 MB Video Memory, but I am just going from memory... I know it was at least the recommended amounts for Civ4).
There is a workaround, as follows:
1) Edit Civilization4.ini in My Documents\My Games\Beyond the Sword\
with your favorite text editor:
About 1/3 of the way, down, edit this line to say the following:
NoIntroMovie = 1
Now, you should be able to start Civ4... but it will crash if you build a wonder because it is trying to play the wonder movie.
2) In the Options, disable all in-game movies (Wonder, etc).
I sure hope Firaxis patches this, though -- I like the Wonder movies!!!
It appears other hp pavilion dv's have this problem also -- see thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=234894
Sam
With Intro movies enabled, the CTD occurs at the beginning and I can't play. With Wonder movies enabled, the CTD occurs when I build a wonder.
I am on an hp dv9000, 1.9 GHz AMD Mobile Sempron, with an nVidia GeForce Go 6150 (I believe it is 1 GB RAM, 256 MB Video Memory, but I am just going from memory... I know it was at least the recommended amounts for Civ4).
There is a workaround, as follows:
1) Edit Civilization4.ini in My Documents\My Games\Beyond the Sword\
with your favorite text editor:
About 1/3 of the way, down, edit this line to say the following:
NoIntroMovie = 1
Now, you should be able to start Civ4... but it will crash if you build a wonder because it is trying to play the wonder movie.
2) In the Options, disable all in-game movies (Wonder, etc).
I sure hope Firaxis patches this, though -- I like the Wonder movies!!!
It appears other hp pavilion dv's have this problem also -- see thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=234894
Sam
