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[HannibalBarca]

After buying CIV IV almost a month ago now, I still am unable to play the game. About a week after purchasing the game, I purchased an Nvidia GEForce 5200X, hoping this would fix 1. Black Screen Problem 2. Missing Leader Heads problem. It fixed it and worked great...until I built a wonder, which is when I got a blue screen of death.

So, I bought a FRIGGIN GIGABYTE of RAM, (bringing total RAM up to 1016...for some reason I lost 200mb in the process) hoping that THAT would fix the 1. Laggyness on any map above tiny and 2. Blue Screen of Death. Once again, it worked great. I built wonders and everything. Then I left. Then I came back, and started a new game...GUESS WHAT? MR. BLUE FRIGGIN SCREEN IS BACK WHEN I BUILD STONEHENGE. YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!

So I downloaded the patch. It wrought terrible havoc, bringing back the black terrain problem, mixed in with a sickening quilt of RGB pixels where trees should be...yay...Guess what Patchy? YOURE UNINSTALLED!

So, I created a High Needs program to squeeze all the memory I could into the game. It worked. Then I exited the game. A little while later, I tried to play again...AND GUESS WHAT??????????????? Well, you get the picture *cough* same problems *cough*

Can Anyone tell me why EVERY FIX I TRY works ONCE and then the game goes back to its OLD CRAPPY SELF????

Thanks for your help.

 

[atomant]

For me, before Hark's patch, I had to load an early previous saved game that worked, then load the current saved game and play again from that point.

Try loading an old saved game then load a current saved game and try again.
It mainly help getting pass wonder movies, and speeding up the late games for a few turns. It used to crash on me all the time.

With Hark's patch, I can play a whole game and it may only crash once or twice.

Don't give up.

After buying CIV IV almost a month ago now, I still am unable to play the game. About a week after purchasing the game, I purchased an Nvidia GEForce 5200X, hoping this would fix 1. Black Screen Problem 2. Missing Leader Heads problem. It fixed it and worked great...until I built a wonder, which is when I got a blue screen of death.

So, I bought a FRIGGIN GIGABYTE of RAM, (bringing total RAM up to 1016...for some reason I lost 200mb in the process) hoping that THAT would fix the 1. Laggyness on any map above tiny and 2. Blue Screen of Death. Once again, it worked great. I built wonders and everything. Then I left. Then I came back, and started a new game...GUESS WHAT? MR. BLUE FRIGGIN SCREEN IS BACK WHEN I BUILD STONEHENGE. YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!

So I downloaded the patch. It wrought terrible havoc, bringing back the black terrain problem, mixed in with a sickening quilt of RGB pixels where trees should be...yay...Guess what Patchy? YOURE UNINSTALLED!

So, I created a High Needs program to squeeze all the memory I could into the game. It worked. Then I exited the game. A little while later, I tried to play again...AND GUESS WHAT??????????????? Well, you get the picture *cough* same problems *cough*

Can Anyone tell me why EVERY FIX I TRY works ONCE and then the game goes back to its OLD CRAPPY SELF????

Thanks for your help.

 

[HannibalBarca]

Harks patch? Im not one to delve into technical stuff, so...just for clarification what is Harks patch?