Solutions for NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 - Please post here.

[1c0n]

i have a 440mx too, runs fine with omega drivers, set to performance. and many of the other tweaks stated on here.

p4 2.53
1024 ram
64mb 440mx

i still cant see more than bread, and the video's are a lil wacked but i play on huge and its playable in a window. i count myself as lucky, and will help anyone i can. still eagerly awaiting a patch tho

 

[Artagel]

440 MX P4 2.8 512 RAM

Tried most of the fixes listed above, still getting stuttering intro movie, some stuttering wonder movies, slow game play, and late game crashes (this occurs whether its a 2 hour session or a loaded saved game that is in late game mode).

 

[Renata]

MX 420 here, and I can only say what I did myself.

Before installing:

Switched video drivers twice, first to 81.85, then after seeing some reports of problems in the forums, to an earlier version (the one from April 14, 2005). Complete uninstall and reinstall both times.

Defragged the hard disk.

Downloaded the version of DirectX 9.0c that comes with the game.

Before playing:

Reboot the system.

Turn off all unnecessary peripherals and practically empty out the system tray.

Problems I still have after all of that:

The bread-only and related graphics bugs, which I suspect can't be fixed except possibly by a patch.

Stuttering of the opening movie. (But in-game wonder movies seem to be fine -- I haven't built any in the very late game, though.)

Weird graphical glitches and random slowdowns if I try to alt-tab out of the game to do anything else, or if I restart the game again after quitting but before rebooting. Also one CTD in such a situation.

Lately, a major hang at the beginning of each new session. Loading goes fine, but as soon as I hit end-turn, the game hangs for a while -- about five minutes is the longest so far. Play appears to be normal afterwards, though. This may be related to me being lazy and not shutting down my firewall and my internet connection prior to playing over the last day or so (because it's oh-so-difficult to disconnect the router ( at self)). I'll have to check again tonight to see if that is in fact the source of that problem.

Anyway, assuming I do all of the above, and acknowledging the graphical bugs, the game seems to run just fine indefinitely (I've played only up to about four hours at once). No crashes, no hangs, no problem zooming out (within reason; I've never gone beyond where you first see the clouds), wonder movies run ok, diplomacy is ok, and inter-turn speed is acceptable (only standard-size maps so far for me). I haven't tried turning on the grid, as I've heard that's very graphically intensive to switch on and off.

Hope some of this helps someone.

 

[Baron Rakkan]

I think it has also to do with the references. Because I have tried all this things-deinstalling, installing, and so on and so on, not really one helped, today my game crashed, which I play on a huge map with many civs and high graphics, after 7 minutes of loading the next round!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So the game runs and between the time I brush my teeth, make telephone calls, learn and so on..okay joke.
I think we should play it on a normal or small map, then we can enjoy the high graphics and the movies and it won't crash.
Secondly the term with the virtual memory, because I have read in some threads, that the changing of the virtual memory has no influence. Okay, it's not clear if it helps or not, or if this change has only a "placebo-effect" or not, but after I have put my virtual memory again at 512MB my game began to crash(on this big map with many civs). What I clearly say is it did crash, but it didn't work slower or faster as before with the virtual memory of 800MB.
I am really waiting for the patch, I am curious if it will help us with some problems!

See you!

 

[Baron Rakkan]

Stupid Question(Really Stupid): What means Anti-Aliasing exactly, should I change something with it?

 

[drmello]

Hi!
I too have a GeForce 4 MX and only see bread when I toggle the yield display; no production or commerce. I installed the newest NVIDIA drivers and the intro movie still stutters as well.
Did you find a solution to the bread problem??

Drmello

 

[jened]

Hi!
I too have a GeForce 4 MX and only see bread when I toggle the yield display; no production or commerce. I installed the newest NVIDIA drivers and the intro movie still stutters as well.
Did you find a solution to the bread problem??

Drmello

only firaxis can fix this problem for everyone.

 

[Sir_CharlesIII]

There's no reason Civ4 shouldn't run perfectly on a Geforce4. The graphics in this game are about average for 3 years ago. I can run Age of Empires III, which looks a hell of a lot better than this game, smoothly on my Geforce 4 but this game slows to a crawl. Ridiculous.

 

[jened]

come on firaxis! your silence is deafening!!!!!!!

 

[juniopp101]

IF you are having issues with the wonder movies and the intro screens you can turn them off by accessing the .ini file civ uses.

C:\Documents and Settings\"User name"\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\CivilizationIV.ini

 

[jened]

i was still getting crashes when displaying national wonders even tho turned off in the ini ?

 

[atomant]

Hi all,

If you would like to see if you can play the intro.bik file( without stuttering) try using the latest BINK player. Go to www.radgametools.com and download the player. I got the Intro.bik file to play fine, no problems at all using this method, however the game still plays it really jerky. There are just some things the latest video drivers or older ones are not going to fix.

Hang in there for the patch!