Need help with Windows7

[ChickenWyng]

I am not really tech savvy so I will tell you what I know and somebody can hopefully help me. I have an original Civ4 with no expansions, my laptop is a Toshiba which meets all the specs needed except I have no idea what graphics card I have and it's running Windows7 64 bit. The game installs fine but when I go to play it stops at check XML and says I have to close it. I found a solution a ways back before which got me to a black screen and would always get stuck there. I tried setup in XP mode with admin abilities and that hasn't worked. At my wits end and not sure what else to do. Any help would greatly be appreciated.

 

[Furiey]

Have you patched the game to 1.74?

 

[ChickenWyng]

I just downloaded the patch and I get an error about loading shader libraries.

EDIT-I downloaded an updated Direct X 9 and that seems to have worked so far. Thanks for the help Furley, I forgot about downloading the patch.