Hi All,
Apologies for yet another ATi whinge. I've followed all the instructions at the official support site, including installing the latest ATi drivers, doing an express install of the game and doing the unpacking Art0.FPK stuff. It still gives "Failed to initialize renderer".
The problem is with DirectX. Apparently there is a bug in the version of 9.0c that comes with SP2. When I go to install DX from the Civ4 CD, it immediately says "finished", without actually installing. The existing DX claims to be fully up-to-date, but it's not. (This is not helped by M$ having several versions all called 9.0c instead of 9.0d etc.)
I'm pretty sure that if I could get DirectX to install from the Civ4 CD it would work - does anyone know how to do this? I've seen a couple of threads on other forums about messing with dlls and/or install scripts, but none of them were very clear.
Sorry if this isn't very coherent, I don't know how else to explain it. Civ4 installs fine, but doesn't work. It doesn't matter which ATi drivers I use, or whether I do the Art0 unpack or not. I'm sure it's a DX problem, but I can't find a version of DirectX to install over the top. Windows update tells me that DirectX is up to date (which it is, if you just look at the version number ...).
Hope someone can help,
CC
P.S. Card is a PowerColor RadeOn 9600 Pro 256Mb, if that helps. System is Athlon XP3200+ in an Asus A7N8X Deluxe
Apologies for yet another ATi whinge. I've followed all the instructions at the official support site, including installing the latest ATi drivers, doing an express install of the game and doing the unpacking Art0.FPK stuff. It still gives "Failed to initialize renderer".
The problem is with DirectX. Apparently there is a bug in the version of 9.0c that comes with SP2. When I go to install DX from the Civ4 CD, it immediately says "finished", without actually installing. The existing DX claims to be fully up-to-date, but it's not. (This is not helped by M$ having several versions all called 9.0c instead of 9.0d etc.)
I'm pretty sure that if I could get DirectX to install from the Civ4 CD it would work - does anyone know how to do this? I've seen a couple of threads on other forums about messing with dlls and/or install scripts, but none of them were very clear.
Sorry if this isn't very coherent, I don't know how else to explain it. Civ4 installs fine, but doesn't work. It doesn't matter which ATi drivers I use, or whether I do the Art0 unpack or not. I'm sure it's a DX problem, but I can't find a version of DirectX to install over the top. Windows update tells me that DirectX is up to date (which it is, if you just look at the version number ...).
Hope someone can help,
CC
P.S. Card is a PowerColor RadeOn 9600 Pro 256Mb, if that helps. System is Athlon XP3200+ in an Asus A7N8X Deluxe
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