Ingame Video Causes Crashing

[SaberMonk]

I've just started playing Civ 4 a few days ago, and I'm having a recurring problem with most of the videos that try to play in the game, such as those that play when you complete a wonder. Most of the time the window for the video appears, but it is empty and I have to open an Advisor window to make it go away. Sometimes, however, when the video starts to play it will crash Civ 4 back to the desktop. I didn't see anything in the game options about turning off these videos, so my question is, is there a way to do this?

My system specs are:
Alienware Area-51m Laptop
1 gb RAM
3 ghz P4 processor
128mb Nvidia Go5700 video card

 

[Zanmato]

The videos are likely too much for your video card to handle, so turn them off for the time being until the low-res movies are released whenever that will be. Open the CivilizationIV.ini file and look for the line:

; Set to 1 for no in-game movies
NoMovies = 0

Just change the '0' to '1' and hopefully it will stop crashing.