Game start up issues

[Maq2000]

I am having issues when attempting to start up Civ4. It appears to load fine, then the screen goes black for a sec, as though the game is about to start, then it just disappears for some reason. I have tried several times with the same result. I have latest patch for the game plus the latest driver for my vid card.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

 

[Maq2000]

Let me included a little more info.... I use to play the game prior to me upgrading my MB, CPU, Video card.. fresh windows install. Its been 5 months using the new comp and wanted to play Civ4.

Civ4 seemed to install correctly but there was 2 errors upon loading, like maps, but the rest of the install was fine. The game would start but crash and give an error. So I look up the problem I had when I was installing. Said I needed to d/l pakbuild -done-

Now when I start the game it loads like it has been but the window just disappears, not minimized, just disappears. No error message, nothing.

I have already tried to reinstall a couple of times and made sure I had updated drivers. I'm also using patch v1.61 (no expansions installed yet).

MY OS is WinXP Prof

 

[Maq2000]

Noticed using incorrect patch so upgraded to v1.74.

Now when I attempt to launch the game I get:
The application has failed to start because D3DX9_32.DLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

Checked on the web about this issue. Says you need to update to Directx 9.. which is crazy since I have like Directx 11 or something like that.

So I d/l this D3DX9_32.DLL file and placed it in the windows/system directory.

Upon start up I am now getting this error:
Error loading shader libraries.

If its not one thing its another.. I'll have to work on this later for this issue.

 

[Maq2000]

Couldn't wait... found similiar issue here
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=232116&page=3

After installing the directx 9 from MS website (installed it anyways) I attempted to load the game.

I just getting an error where Civ4 encounted a prob and needs to close. No specifics.

 

[ori]

Welcome to CFC

does it offer you to send an error report? if so please click on show report and post a screenshot of that

 

[Maq2000]

Actually when I clicked on "To view technical information about the error report." It listed quite a bit and cannot screen shot it on one screen but several. However, there was a temp file created which I attached to this post. I hope that is the info you were requesting... if not i'll try posting all the screen shots of the info (several).

 

[ori]

I'd just be interested in the top part of that screen - without scrolling - but I *think* the temp file solved it:

open my games\sid meier's civilization 4\civilizationIV.ini in any text editor and set
nointromovie = 0
to
nointromovie = 1
save and the game should start

 

[Maq2000]

Did that, nothing changed. Same crash. Here is the SS.

 

[ori]

too bad - the bink error referenced in the temp file would have been so easy to solve...

as for this:

0xc0000005 errors have all sorts of possible causes, some are discussed here: http://www.updatexp.com/0xC0000005.html