Please Help Me!

madisonman

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OK here's the situation...my parents went away on a weeks vacation and they left the keys to the brand new Porsch...would they mind umm well of course not.

As you can see I have lost my mind trying to get civ iv to work. Not only am I quoting bad songs but Will Smith songs at that, so please help me.

I have a DELL INSPIRON 6000 with an ati x300 video card. The computer is only 6 months old. I have downloaded everything I can find to fix my problem but nothing seems to work.

The game loads fine, as does the patch 1.61 and the catalyst and 6-6-mobile and hydravision.

When I hit play or put in disk 1 the "loading screen" comes up, stays on for about 10 min. then tells me an error has occured.

I meet all the requirements to play but I am about to give up as I have called 2k games about 10 times and no one helps

Tally Hoo Hoo Zaba Do
Madison Man
 
Can it be that copy protection that is causing trouble? Possibly your CD/DVD drive is unable to cope with it. There was a firmware update for DELL drives that reportedly helped people (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=4128476&postcount=21)

Does your civ end with the first loading screen or can you also see a second similar screen where several things are initialized? If so, what is initialized last?

Try to enable logging, http://www.2kgames.com/civ4/support_logging.htm. Post the results.
 
WOW it worked I can not thank you enough! My stress level has dropped to defcon 3. Oh and remember the people at the zoo are very nice...he he

Madisonman
 
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