Problems with new Video card and starting game!

[Homerboy]

I have Civ installed on my work machine which previously just had a Nvidia 5200 PCI (not express) installed. Yes... I said 5200 PCI. While playable it was slow and tedious at times.

So I got my hands on replacement card for free... 5700LE AGP. Figured it can't hurt any to toss it in there so I did. Now when I launch the game the opening movies and "adverts" play but I can't see them... just a blue screen. I can hear them though.

Once I get to where the menu should be I get the spinning globe backdrop and the "CIVILIZATION IV" banner/logo above but there is no menu displayed... yet it is there.. I can still click and hear it doing what it should be doing... just I have no idea what I'm clicking on.

I've uninstallled, reinstalled, updated to latest video drives but nothing at all works. Same result.

Any suggestions?

 

[lycan]

I'd try tweaked drivers, such as omega has for ATI. From there setting by setting turn options on / off and try to find out which one causes the issue

 

[Zanmato]

I've seen this problem before but I can't find a relevant thread, hopefully someone might be able to point you towards it.
It could be a problem with the AGP voltage as different AGP cards require different power requirements. If it is struggling for power you might well see a blue screen or graphic/texture corruption. See it there is any way of finding out what the card needs voltage wise and what your AGP is providing.

 

[CivIVFan]

There is a fix for your problem, because it happened to me when I put my new 256 MB video card in after I installed Civ IV. There is a cache directory under C:\Documents and Settings\"User Name"\Application Data\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\cache. I had to delete everything in this entire directory, and the problems were solved. Something in this directory stored information about my old video card. Let me know if this works for you.