Help!!!!

[Shandier]

I'm sorry to bore you with this history, but maybe it'll help. I'm NOT good with computers. I like to put the CD's in amd play. I bought CivIV and it wouldn't load. Had to have help to check my what my system was. The machine needed a new video card. Installed one, the game still wouldn't load. Needed to update my computer, so a friend helped me buy a new one knowing full well that I wanted to play this game.

Loaded it onto my new computer, it worked! It quit a lot, so I came here to see why. Found the patch, downloaded it, installed it and the game worked great. Go me for being able to do this much. LOL

I loaded another game onto the computer (Sims 2 and University) That game played all right, but I decided to play CIV IV since it's my favorite. The game clicks off before it fully loads. I can select the leader and even got two moves in before it quit once. When I turn the computer on, it says there is an error, Fat32. I let the computer scan and it checks the CD and goes to the desktop. I click the shortcut again, and repeat the process.

I uninstalled the other games, still get the same error. I uninstalled Civ IV, reinstalled and reinstalled the patch, still quits. The game worked before, what's going on? I have an ACER Genuine Intel(R)CPU T230@1.66GHz 1.67GHz 1.00GB of RAM. See I'm such an idiot, I don't know if any of that info is even helpful! LOL

Thank you in advance for your patience and help.
Shandier

 

[crunch]

Trying to paraphrase: when you run the game, the game crashes. sometimes you manage to play 1 or 2 turns before crashing. Did I get it right?

 

[dlordmagic]

When I turn the computer on, it says there is an error, Fat32.

Fat32 refers to the file setup on your harddrive. You will most likely need to reformat your harddrive to NTSF standard. FYI ther is also Fat8,Fat16, and Fat64 file formats. most harddrives over 8 gigs will need to use NTSF standard to operate correctly. If this helps I have a K7N2 Delta series mother board with 1.24Ghz Amd Athlon processor,1 Gig of onboard Ram, Ati raedon Graphics card with a 128 Megs of Ram and an 80Gig Maxtor(7200 Rpm) harddrive. From your specs it sounds like you should be able to play my guess is look at your harddrive and graphics card first to check for incompatability problems. Hope this points you in the right direction.

 

[auldian]

Make sure you've fully updated your new computer at Windows Update as well. Click on Start > Programs > Windows (or Microsoft) Update. This may need to happen several times with rebooting required. Some of the file sizes are large, so you are warned ahead of time.
Make sure when you installed Civ4 you installed it's DirectX 9.0c as well (normally done).
Do you get the FAT32 error when there's no CD in the CD-ROM at boot-up? I ask because you indicate it's scanning the CD.
Attach a dxdiag.txt to this thread if you continue to have issues (Start > Run... > dxdiag > Save, etc.).
Let us know how things go. Good luck.