v1.09 CTD and game corruption

[annakouznetsova]

Nvidia GeForce Go5700:

Installed the entire game and then the v1.09 patch.

First time I tried to go to a foreign advisor, I had a CTD. On trying to restart afterwards, the game immediately would CTD every time with the message:
"Your movies are not installed correctly."

No longer even gets to the game menu! Everything is corrupted now and has to be reinstalled.

 

[Megalou]

You're not saying whether the game worked before you installed the patch. You should look for a driver upgrade on the NVIDIA homepage. Remember that if you search for an upgrade automatically, XP will sometimes say that there is not a better one available, but if there is a newer one than yours it probably is better!

 

[annakouznetsova]

1. Actually, using the automated install for the game did not work. This is because the automated install continually tried to install a new NVIDIA driver for the Go5700. What I mean by that is that as soon as the CD would run, it would try to install a new NVDIA driver and ask for the machine to be rebooted afterwards. After rebooting, I would run the CD again, and again it would try to install a new NVIDIA driver! This could cycle forever without any progress on the Civ4 install. So instead, I went and installed the very latest NVIDIA driver myself (Forceware 81.95) and then "opened" the CD, went into the directx 9 directory, manually installed it, and then after a reboot, when and manually ran the Civ4 setup file. This elaborate procedure resulted in a perfectly working Civ4 on the machine. Updated it to v1.09.

2. After updating to v1.09, it was working fine for about 10min until the CTD happened. Afterwards, it was as I described (the error message about movies not being installed correctly and a corrupted game that had to be deleted and reinstalled).

 

[mrgenie]

solution, install v 1.0 and don't update you people are all so funny, didnt noone of you ever played beta releases? in a beta, once you get a working version, you just leave it there and first try to find the minor bugs, others will find the bugs in this new version automatically..since civ4 is still a pre beta, i'd just say, if we all play this pre beta version, maybe the beta stage of the game will be somewhere near february 2006 then 2 or 3 months and we're outta beta to get the final release with only a couple minor bugs anyway, installing a upgraded version which causes CTD, it will disallow you to play, it's anoying, destroying your fun, and after a while you stop playing it..so just switch back to the version that worked then you can look for the other bugs

 

[oldStatesman]

solution, install v 1.0 and don't update you people are all so funny, didnt noone of you ever played beta releases? in a beta, once you get a working version, you just leave it there and first try to find the minor bugs, others will find the bugs in this new version automatically..since civ4 is still a pre beta, i'd just say, if we all play this pre beta version, maybe the beta stage of the game will be somewhere near february 2006 then 2 or 3 months and we're outta beta to get the final release with only a couple minor bugs anyway, installing a upgraded version which causes CTD, it will disallow you to play, it's anoying, destroying your fun, and after a while you stop playing it..so just switch back to the version that worked then you can look for the other bugs

Unfortunately, I think the Gamespy lobby forces those who play multiplayer to upgrade or not have access. No choice.