Help! Game has run fine for 6 weeks and TODAY I get a renderer error!

[rpoquinn]

Well, um, I'm flabbergasted. I bought this game on November 25. Game did not run out of the box but patching to 1.09 made it run flawlessly, and I have loved it ever since. Today I pop in the CD to play the new GOTM and I get the world famous renderer error that everyone else gets.

I have an idea of what might be the problem: I just ran dxdiag and I seem to have 9.0b instead of 9.0c, even though I installed the DirectX version on the game CD.

I tried the famed Art0.pak fix as well - dont think it will work because I do not have a file named Art0.pak in my Assets folder - just a file called Assets0.pak.

Any idea what happened here? And why is this happening now after 6 weeks of no trouble????

 

[robaughjr]

The 1.09 patch does the Art0.pak fix for you, The "assets" files are parts of the original "art" file. Have you installed 1.52 patch? If not, try uninstalling then delete all remaining civ4 files (use windows search to find). Then reinstall and use ingame "check for updates" to get latest patch. Also download the latest directx from here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx, 9.0c is required to run the game. If none of those work, come back and post your dxdiag (from dxdiag screen click save all settings, then post notepad file here).

 

[rpoquinn]

woohoo! all is well - the directx version is the problem.

why on earth did it somehow roll the version back? i haven't knowingly made any changes to anything, and havent installed any new programs since Civ4 in November.

oh well - computers! what can you do?

thanks for your help!

 

[robaughjr]

woohoo! all is well - the directx version is the problem.

why on earth did it somehow roll the version back? i haven't knowingly made any changes to anything, and havent installed any new programs since Civ4 in November.

oh well - computers! what can you do?

thanks for your help!

No problem, I've never heard of directx rolling back on its own (it's a b**** to do if you're trying to do it) so I doubt it was anything you did. I'd do a virusscan just in case.