Problem loading saved games mid-game with vista

[Baligouxji]

Hello, I recently bought a new computer, Radeon 4850 graphics card, 6 gigs of ram, 2.6 (I believe) processor, and Vista.

The game's running exceptionally well, (I installed the original game + beyond the sword) however I see two problems coming up again and again.

1. I am never able to load a saved game while in the middle of a civilization IV "match" or... "game". I can load from the main screen of Civ.IV no problem, however, in cases where I cautiously save to test a battle plan out, only to have it fail, I am unable to load once things go sour.

So in other words, hitting "esc", hitting load on the small menu, and then selecting a saved game causes the game to stop, and forces a window to pop up with a "windows is attempting to fix this problem" line. It list the files related/describing the problem:

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Temp\WER396E.tmp.version.txt
C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Temp\WER59DA.tmp.appcompat.txt
C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Temp\WER59FA.tmp.mdmp

2. My second problem is annoying, but no where near as bad, ever time I start up civ.IV and it gets to the main screen, a window (from civ.IV) pops up and says that I've selected an unusuable voice capturing device that is not supported. I have to then click the window 3 to 4 times before it disappears completely (each click just makes it more transparent).

I'm still very new to this computer and Vista, so a detailed step by step method of how to fix this would be nice. Or just any help in general.

Thank you very much for your time.

 

[ori]

welcome to cfc

for 1) open the windows event manager (search for it in the windows search function) after the game crashes and try to see if there is any error message logged - post that here
for 2) open my games\<gamename>\civilizationIV.ini
each of the games (i.e. Civ4 and BtS) has their own.
look for the line that says:

; Enable voice over IP capture and playback
EnableVoice = 1

change that to

; Enable voice over IP capture and playback
EnableVoice = 0