Failed to Initialize Renderer error

[Brond]

Greetings,

I bought Civ4 a few hours ago and when trying to run it i get the following message :

" Failed to Initialize Renderer - Check DirectX Version and Graphic Settings "

My computer is ok with the recommanded support (P4 2.8Ghz - 1,5 Go ram - 55Go free on HDD and i use Windows XP pro)

My current DirectX version is the 9c and is up to date with the game package version either as the one from the microsoft website.

My graphic card is an ATI Excalibur 9550 and i downloaded and installed the last version of Catalyst (5.11) from the official website.

Then i uninstalled the game and reinstalled it, but still have this error when trying to launch the game.

Any help would be welcome, thank you (and sorry for my poor english )

 

[pdathert]

many solutions for this can be found here:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=133003

but first have you tried the patch?

 

[Brond]

This solution worked for me perfectly, did not even have to remove that art file.
Pentium 4, ATI Radeon 9600 256 Megs

Quote:
Originally Posted by toomylee


New fix for the renderer error

This fix has been tried for Inverse Icarus and Unimatrix, and got their games fully working, so everyone give it a try.

Requirements:

You have installed Civ4, along with the DirectX update on the CD. You have installed the 5.10 ATI drivers.

Instructions:

* 1. Download, unzip and run this application.
* http://boa.apolyton.net/civ4/files/PakBuild.zip
* 2. From the menu, select PAK->Unpack.
* 3. Go to your Civ 4 Folder, Assets subdirectory (CivilizationIV\Assets), select the Art0.FPK file, click Open.
* 4. You'll be prompted to select an extraction folder, select CivilizationIV\Assets - same folder as above.
* 5. Wait. The program may appear to hang with the progress bar at 100%, but it will be done with unpacking in 2-5 minutes.
* 6. Move the Art0.FPK file out of your Assets folder so that Civ4 can't find it.
* 7. Run Civ4.



Thx to SOLVED.

This is the only thing worked for me, im using RADEON 9800 PRO.

Hope this help someone out there.

Toomylee

Found this at page 19 of the thread, and worked nicely, thanks for your help.

I m off to try the game now, thanks again and good game to everyone

 

[Tyler #18]

I bought Civ 4 yesterday and this afternoon I installed it. Of course I eas relly upset when I found out that the game didn't start. I try to re-install it but unsuccesfully. The first thing i tought was that the half-priced second hand copy I bought was somehow corrupted or spolied and the second was: "Where the hell I put the cash voucher?" Anyway I started looking for any possible aolution on the net, first of all in the game site but their, let me say the truth, patetic advice were usless. A little bit annoyed a noticed the link to this great forum and I just said to myself: why not try? And here, after a ten minutes little serach among all the thrads I found this one with this perfetc working solution to my problems.

Again thanks to you all!
Now I'm gonna have some Civ!

PS: please, exuse my probably uncorrect English but I'm Italo-German and I've just studied it for few years.