Please help me!

[lglineman58]

Everything went fine with the installation of the game...but then as soon as I start the game up, i get the loading message, it says done, but then it just stops there. The weird thing is there is music playing, so it's not like it froze. I even downloaded the patch to try to fix it, but still nothing. Any help would be appreciated. i tried letting it sit, over an hour and there was still nothing. Frankly, if it's still loading stuff, I don't think it would be worth it to have to wait an hour each time I wanted to play it. So i'm hoping it's something else.

oh and when it just sits there I can hear music playing, and its not like the game froze cuz when I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete it still says the game is running.

thanks

 

[Charles 22]

I had the same problem a long time ago, so I'm not absolutely sure what I did to fix it; as it was my first problem. I'm pretty sure all I did back then was uninstall it (I might not have had any patches back then either) then see to my video card driver updating.

I think I tried updating the card on-the-fly, just an overlay you know, and it seems it didn't work. The next thing I did was to completely remove the old driver and then follow procedures for installing the newest driver altogether. I'm not sure where I got the procedures from but it seemed the website that had my driver had that. In any event I would imagine the procedures are the same for any video driver. Then I reinstalled the game and the darkness was a thing of the past.

 

[boneys26]

Everything went fine with the installation of the game...but then as soon as I start the game up, i get the loading message, it says done, but then it just stops there. The weird thing is there is music playing, so it's not like it froze. I even downloaded the patch to try to fix it, but still nothing. Any help would be appreciated. i tried letting it sit, over an hour and there was still nothing. Frankly, if it's still loading stuff, I don't think it would be worth it to have to wait an hour each time I wanted to play it. So i'm hoping it's something else.

oh and when it just sits there I can hear music playing, and its not like the game froze cuz when I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete it still says the game is running.

thanks

what's your system spec? and could you run DXDIAG do the tests for each tab then put it on here

 

[Dicko29]

I have the same problem here is the DxDiag

My system has the Mobility Radeon 9000, 3.07 Ghz Intel and 512 MB ram

Sorry for double posting. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[lglineman58]

yea here's my dxdiag

 

[senwiz]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=141029

I would try this fix. It worked for me, and several others as well.

I have noticed that the game really thrives on updated video drivers. It sounds to me like you both are suffering from video driver issues.

 

[lglineman58]

thanks it worked.

 

[boneys26]

see above "senwiz' post" (beat me too it)