I have a 7800gt and let me say that Civ4 alone never had any problems for me. I did did not see an existing thread with this same problem. Most of them dealt with black terrain. When I installed Warlords and played for a few turns I started seeing these wierd lines and polygon like shapes all over the screen. The artifacts gradually increase until the game is frozen. I then Control-Alt-delete and terminate the application. When I try to start any game after this, I get the renderer problem and the direct3d test in dxdiag.exe does not work anymore. I have to do a system restore to bring everything back.
One guess is that my card is fried but I also played Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War and have all the settings at Max level. There are absolutely no artifacts. This game is much more graphics intensive than Warlords. I will try FEAR later to confirm that my card is not fried.
One guess is that my card is fried but I also played Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War and have all the settings at Max level. There are absolutely no artifacts. This game is much more graphics intensive than Warlords. I will try FEAR later to confirm that my card is not fried.
