Cannot get Civ IV to work and it's doing my head in!
Installed everything from the DVD rom no problems. Double click the shortcut, the little civ IV box comes up saying it's loading, then get a loading bar which gradually increases to show that the game is loading up - so far so good.
However as soon as hit reaches done, the screen seems to jump to a low res like 800x600 (maybe less). At this point music begins to play and the mouse pointer changes, which leads me to believe I should be able to see the main menu I've seen in screenshots, but all I can see is the loading box which says DONE, and my desktop behind it.
Using Alt+Tab gets me out of the program and reverts my screen size back to how it was (1440x900) no problem, but if I hit it again to go back into the game it just throws up a blank black screen, but with the mouse cursor still.
I'm using an Iridium laptop with a Mobility Radeon 9000 64mb video card. Not sure whether the video card is to blame or not. However it is a good machine which runs well and has never given me any gyp with games in 1½ years.
dxdiag here
Installed everything from the DVD rom no problems. Double click the shortcut, the little civ IV box comes up saying it's loading, then get a loading bar which gradually increases to show that the game is loading up - so far so good.
However as soon as hit reaches done, the screen seems to jump to a low res like 800x600 (maybe less). At this point music begins to play and the mouse pointer changes, which leads me to believe I should be able to see the main menu I've seen in screenshots, but all I can see is the loading box which says DONE, and my desktop behind it.
Using Alt+Tab gets me out of the program and reverts my screen size back to how it was (1440x900) no problem, but if I hit it again to go back into the game it just throws up a blank black screen, but with the mouse cursor still.
I'm using an Iridium laptop with a Mobility Radeon 9000 64mb video card. Not sure whether the video card is to blame or not. However it is a good machine which runs well and has never given me any gyp with games in 1½ years.
dxdiag here
