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[gogog]

Very annoyed.
Owned Civ, Civ2, Civ3, Civ 4 alpha centari and colonization which ,since I'm seventeen is saying something
I can't even get the game to work even trying the solutions Firaxis has on their site and I can't follow half of what you guys are saying so I don't think I ever will. Can't they just put out a patch that fixes all or most of the Ati issues?

 

[Derka James]

Civ II (PC and PSOne), Civ III (including the unofficial CIV IV, aka RAR Mod), Civ IV wanna if it will freaking work...

yeah it runs on the minimum specs... provided you strip the computer and run minimum game features... but whats the point of that?

 

[blargh]

From day one this game has been given me diarrhea but I think I finally got it working right.

Following some advice that was scattered here and there, I deinstalled Civ4 completely then deleted all files in the Firaxis folder as well as what's in MyDocuments although I did back up my saves. I reinstalled Civ4, which on my machine means having to remove the video drivers first to avoid the init renderer problem, reloaded the drivers, unpacked and moved the art0.fpk file, updated to version 1.52 then what I think is most important, cleared the cache because following these steps without clearing it means the inevitable runtime exit/crash so hard my PC actually beeped. It's also a good idea to defrag afterwards because all this installing/uninstalling makes one hell of a mess on the hardddrive.

Now that it seems to be working ok I will take back what I said about this game being a piece of garbage. It's the installation procedure on ATI systems which is utter crap.

My system is roughly as follows:
ATI Radeon 9550 256 MB video.
512 MB
Pentium 4 (HT) 3.1 GHz
Gigabyte MoBo.
Realtek AC'97 onbaord audio.

... so if your machine is similar, it may be worth it to reinstall as recommended.

 

[Neon Deon]

Darth Blargh and Darth EOE.

Welcome to the darkside.)

 

[Blazer6]

The only real problems are when the next turn starts and cities tell me to build something, it sometimes take more than ten seconds to display what was completed. I wish it would just show all the messages and play the video before the city pop-up.
Nukes also bring my fps to a near halt. It is the best looking animation outside the videos.
I look forward to the reduced quality video updates.

 

[iSkratch]

I won a domination victory for the first time.

The video froze and crashed civ IV to my desktop.

Great work, Sid.

 

[Neon Deon]

I won a domination victory for the first time.

The video froze and crashed civ IV to my desktop.

Great work, Sid.

Yes thank you sid for a most enjoyable error free game.

I love this game. It is great.

Oh wait a minute.

Iskratch: You are being sarcastic.

My bad!

Please continue with your venting.

BTW

Have you ever done anything else in the tech support forum but complain?

If so, could you point me to that post.

Thanks.

 

[chrismpd]

I've played every CIV game since the commodore amiga and none have been as buggy as this one. I want to love this game and it's great for the twenty minutes or so I can play it without crashing.

I have tried a fresh install, turned off AA and any other high end video features I can think of, I also updated my directx to the dec05 version. I even bought a new video card the day after I bought the game because my Radeon 9600 wouldn't work. That's loyalty if you ask me.

My game crashes at least twice everytime I start the game and pretty reliably CTD's every fifteen to twenty minutes thereafter. It also occasionally spontaneously reboots.

My system is:
AMD 2800
ASUS K7
Geforce 6600
1 GB 2700 RAM
latest drivers and updated WIN XP Pro with SP2

I can't post my dxdiag file here now because I'm at work. it is posted in the Random Crashes thread and I will post later here.

If anyone has any ideas I'm all ears, thanks for any input.

 

[PoLe_shiFt]

i played all civ series, but this is the first one i have freeze. firaxis didn´t do a good work with civ4

 

[iSkratch]

Have you ever done anything else in the tech support forum but complain?

If so, could you point me to that post.

Thanks.

Yeah you're right, I mean, I don't see anybody else complaining...

Have you ever done anything else in the tech support forum but put on blinders and doubt the endless posts about this rushed for christmas $$$$ pile of crap known as civ 4?

 

[Neon Deon]

Yeah you're right, I mean, I don't see anybody else complaining...

Have you ever done anything else in the tech support forum but put on blinders and doubt the endless posts about this rushed for christmas $$$$ pile of crap known as civ 4?

LOL

The general disccussion thread out numbers the tech support forum by 10 to 1 in number of posts!.

Guess they all cant get it to work either.

 

[gimhalos]

Posting this in the technical help section will just get a biased response....

Kthxbye ^^

 

[iSkratch]

Just leaked... the original cover design for civ 4

 

[Stone Cold]

Got the same problem as iSkratch. When I got a domination victory a box said movie not properly installed and then it cut to a desktop an error report. I was pissed because I was doin good. Got the 1.5 patch and the new nivida patch. I was just going to try it again later. Also I was wondering what is the score people usally get at the end of thier civ 4 games?

 

[Skrapshak]

I love Civ, but I can't even install Civ IV. Why Firaxis, Why?

 

[Mysticaria]

Hotseat game has lots of problems. Don't leave the civic screen open at the end of your turn.... or do... it is funny once!

 

[Titi]

Time: old civ2 and 3 player (PTW and Conquest too)

Problem: Pls insert the correct DVD and try again (with the legally owned DVD of course...)

Humor: sad, it's a shame I have to use sd4hide.exe to use my legally payed copy. Otherwise, except for this problem, the game works fine. Firaxis sucks, their technical support page doesn't work either.

No need to write anything else, it's exactly the same for me. Except sd4hide doesn't work!!!

 

[Brashagent]

This game has me SO PISSED i cant even play it! the game after a short random amount of turns crashes my screen goes all corrupted graphics and the it goes into sleep mode and my video card shuts down and i have to do a reboot by holding down the power switch.
I am 26 and have had a computer since i was 12 and I havnt seen a game do so much crap to a computer since when i had a tandy 286 and it had a 12mghtz chip in it!!!Its #^%*!^ up i mean i paid almost 60$ for a game i cant play and even after 2 patches so far i still CANT PLAY THE %^#@%@#^^@)^%#@(_^%)(@^#)&*( thing!!!

P.S. O yea i emailed the tech support and still havnt herd anything back and there website tech support just keep takijng u in a loop too this page wow let the customers be there own tech support Great idea asses!!! And yes i have tried everything suggested on the fourms so plz dont go there.

Sry about the complaining but ..........whta else am i to do cant take it back!

 

[matthewm]

Yes I have to agree the way this product has been presented is an absolute disgrace. I have never wasted so much time on any piece of software. But then I really hate a problem that i cant fix. After many hours of following instructions i cant even install this piece of crap
In future i will not PAY for any of the products made by this company and will tell anyone i know to do the same.

 

[Howitzer]

The game works fine for me

Except that i don't see wonder videos.

Civ 4 v 1.52

I have a P4 at 3.06 GHz
WIN XP SP2 HOME
1 Gb Ram
Nvidia Geforce 6200 at 256 MB