Warlords black screen crash

[Kaibilly]

I have been playing Civ 4 (v 1.61) for ages without a problem. I excitedly go out and purchase Warlords and now I only get about 10 or so turns done and the screen goes black, it occasionally minimises to the desk top, but usually just a black screen.
I sent an email to 2K last week, but am yet to hear a reply, so I was wondering if anyone here would have any advice.
I have a radeon 9200 and have updated the drivers.

 

[boneys26]

Same here i've been playing civ4 from nov05 now i have warlord i can play for some time then i get black cities and blacked out units but after moving round the map a few times or reloading a saved game it goes but sometimes i'm left with black ice caps (north and south)

 

[LunaticSlave]

Oddly i been experiencing that very same problem since yesterday...what makes it odd is i been playing warlords since it came out, and never had this problem. I as well have a Radeon 9200, and drivers are uptodate, as well everything else. Games just goes black and i cant do anything, even have to force restart windows, and sometimes just drops me to the desktop. Any ideas?

 

[Kaibilly]

This is the reply received from 2K. I haven't had time to try it out yet, but hopefully it will work. Will post a reply when I see how it goes, but thought some others might like to give it a try.
I have just tried this fix, and wouldn't reccomment it. I now can't get the game to load at all, now it tries to start up, but then crashes and causes my pc to re-start completely.


Please fully disable your antivirus software by using msconfig (please see
below)

Msconfig.

- Click on the start menu
- Click on run
- Type in the following MSCONFIG
- Click on the startup tab
- Deselect all the tick boxes
- Click on apply and then close
- Restart your computer
- When your computer starts up again, please ignore any messages from
msconfig (do not close these)
- Please uninstall the game and reinstall
- Run the game

To return to the original startup sequence follow below instructions

- Click start menu
- Click run
- Type in the following MSCONFIG
- Click on normal startup
- Click on apply and then close
- Restart your computer

 

[LunaticSlave]

I did reinstall both games ( vanilla & exp ), and problem persisted, then i went to check on ATI website, and they had a newer driver for the Radeon 9200, the 6.5 version (i had 6.3).

Now i been playing for a couple of hours and game runs smoothly. Since u have same vcard as me Kai, you should make sure you have latest driver, maybe thats all the trouble, as happened to me.

 

[boneys26]

I did reinstall both games ( vanilla & exp ), and problem persisted, then i went to check on ATI website, and they had a newer driver for the Radeon 9200, the 6.5 version (i had 6.3).

Now i been playing for a couple of hours and game runs smoothly. Since u have same vcard as me Kai, you should make sure you have latest driver, maybe thats all the trouble, as happened to me.

LOL i went to ATI site got the newest driver for my card only to find out thats got bugs too "microsoft and ATI are working together to fix the problem" so i've dropped back to my last driver. it just goes to show its not just fraxis that don't know how to test before release