Weird Problem

[SpiralDown]

Hello, I am new to the game as well as new to these forums. I have a weird issue that occurs while playing CIV IV. It tends to happen as the game file gets bigger. Anyway I will try to explain the problem if I can. The green bar at the top no longer displays what technology I am researching. The city names and what they are building also do not show up. Also when it comes time to research a new tech or build a new building there is no name or description of the tech or building just a picture. I included a screen shot to make things a little clearer. If you know what is causing this and what I can do to fix it please help. Thanks

View attachment CIV IV screen shot1.bmp

 

[Zydor]

Could you please post your Dxdiag dump ?

(Dxdiag - Start button - click - select run - type dxdiag - hit enter - wait a min - select save all information - post it using the 'advanced' button below)

Have you loaded V1.52 patch yet ? Also, any other symptoms such as slow game play, slow turn times etc ?

Regards
Zy

 

[SpiralDown]

I haven't been experiencing that slow of game play. It is sometimes quite slow to load, but it isn't that big of a problem I don't think anyway. The game runs fine with respect to turn speed. It's basically just this problem of not showing up the text in those respected boxes. I haven't downloaded the new patch, but the one that came out before it did not help. I was planning on downloading that patch and will post if that fixes the problem. Here is a copy of the Dxdiag dump. View attachment DxDiag.txt

Thanks for the quick response.

 

[Neon Deon]

I haven't been experiencing that slow of game play. It is sometimes quite slow to load, but it isn't that big of a problem I don't think anyway. The game runs fine with respect to turn speed. It's basically just this problem of not showing up the text in those respected boxes. I haven't downloaded the new patch, but the one that came out before it did not help. I was planning on downloading that patch and will post if that fixes the problem. Here is a copy of the Dxdiag dump. View attachment 109555

Thanks for the quick response.

On the surface it would appear you meet minimum spec for this game.
Set it to 1500/1500.

However, Your Onboared video steals its 64MB from your 512mb of system ram putting you below spec.

Also of note:

Your page file is set too small and you have a whole lot of services running in the back ground.

You might want to disable all programs running in the background and turn off NON-MS services too.