I wrote this to another thread too, but I guess this is more appropriate here, so I just copy-pasted it.
At last it was another weekend for me to spend free-from everything else, relax, and play civ4.
I installed the game to my desktop computer, with ATI 9800 Pro (Sapphire build) AMD 3000, windows XP home (fully updated)
Now I've tried everything. EVERY-SINGLE-F*-THING to get this game working. But it still wouldn't work. Game chrashes in about 15 turns or so. All I get is a black screen - with no error messages or whatsoever, and I need to do a complete system restart everytime. It's definately not about anything special, videos, leaderheads,battles or such, because it just has a random probability to crash anywhere in the game, and everthing is just perfect until that point (Renderings, textures etc.) It once chrashed when I was going through civilopedia!
I am trying every bit of thing I read from any forum. I am in front of my computer for about last 15 hours or so to fix that problem. AAARGG!!!!
let me list;
-I minimized the all Audio, Video and Graphics settings to the lowest. wouldn't work.
-I upgraded to the newest drivers and latest patches. wouldn't work.
-I downgraded to Omega 4.12. wouldn't work.
-I re-upgraded to 5.x something. wouldn't work.
-I completely reinstalled the game. Tried the Art0 Pak fix. wouldn't work
-I tried the OldArt fix. wouldn't work
-I turned down the Smartgart off. wouldn't work.
-I retried everything I listed above here about three times. wouldn't work.
If I missed a featured solution there, it's probably I tried it and it didn't work. I just forgot to mentioned it.
My brothers computer would run it and it's a f* Pentium III!
Sid, has killed my inner child...
Somebody please help me. by providing me a knife or something.
At last it was another weekend for me to spend free-from everything else, relax, and play civ4.
I installed the game to my desktop computer, with ATI 9800 Pro (Sapphire build) AMD 3000, windows XP home (fully updated)
Now I've tried everything. EVERY-SINGLE-F*-THING to get this game working. But it still wouldn't work. Game chrashes in about 15 turns or so. All I get is a black screen - with no error messages or whatsoever, and I need to do a complete system restart everytime. It's definately not about anything special, videos, leaderheads,battles or such, because it just has a random probability to crash anywhere in the game, and everthing is just perfect until that point (Renderings, textures etc.) It once chrashed when I was going through civilopedia!
I am trying every bit of thing I read from any forum. I am in front of my computer for about last 15 hours or so to fix that problem. AAARGG!!!!
let me list;
-I minimized the all Audio, Video and Graphics settings to the lowest. wouldn't work.
-I upgraded to the newest drivers and latest patches. wouldn't work.
-I downgraded to Omega 4.12. wouldn't work.
-I re-upgraded to 5.x something. wouldn't work.
-I completely reinstalled the game. Tried the Art0 Pak fix. wouldn't work
-I tried the OldArt fix. wouldn't work
-I turned down the Smartgart off. wouldn't work.
-I retried everything I listed above here about three times. wouldn't work.
If I missed a featured solution there, it's probably I tried it and it didn't work. I just forgot to mentioned it.
My brothers computer would run it and it's a f* Pentium III!
Sid, has killed my inner child...
Somebody please help me. by providing me a knife or something.