v1.00 BUG Reports

[Kinjiru]

Okay, from CivFanatics, this appears to be an issue with ATI cards. And it does not seem to be a driver issue, as many older sets also fail.

Sadly, my backup computer also has an ATI card.

Hmmm... my kids pc does have an old GeForce2Ultra. Wonder if it will run there?


For those interested...

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=133003

[Shadowlord]

Oh whoops, someone else had already said My Documents\My Games :P.

I wonder if the logs might show what the problem is.

For the person whose graphics adaptor doesn't support 640x480, look in CivilizationIV.ini, maybe it has the resolution in there (so you'd be able to change it). Or is it screwing up trying to play videos in 640x480, perhaps? Hmm. (Does the game itself really start at 640x480 by default?)

[CanuckSoldier]

The problem may be that the Mobility Radeon 9800 only supports "Smart Shaders 1.0" and not "Smart Shaders 2.1" which the Desktop Radeon 9800 does. This is ATI's name for Transform and lighting/programable shaders. I suggest that you adjust the ingame video setting lower and see if this problen goes away, I've written a article on borderline systems here:

http://civ4players.proboards44.com/index.cgi?board=tsf&action=display&thread=1128576764

Today sometime I'll post the same article here on ACS for easy access. I hope this helps, but don't worrry the devs are watching.

CS

[Venger]

Alright, I finally have this %$#^er running again. Had to nuke EVERYTHING, and I also bumped up to the latest NVidia drivers released last week.

I will note a bug that is affecting me - during gameplay, when I try to change resolution from 1024x768 to something higher, it pauses, changes and I can see the screen at the new resolution, but hte manu shows the old res, and it switches right back - nothing I am doing. Like it is changing, but then the menu is changing it right back. WIERD.

But, this time it did come up properly the whole way - no corrupted menus, no blank graphics. I wonder if the aliasing settings are to blame on this.

I plan on playing windowed, so we'll see if this is imparted by that...

CivFanatics says an issue on ATI cards? Can't believe it. Just can't - they SURELY tested this on tons of ATI cards. There is no way this gets out of QC and can't run on ATI.

Venger

[CanuckSoldier]

Originally posted by Kinjiru
Okay, from CivFanatics, this appears to be an issue with ATI cards. And it does not seem to be a driver issue, as many older sets also fail.

Sadly, my backup computer also has an ATI card.

Hmmm... my kids pc does have an old GeForce2Ultra. Wonder if it will run there?


For those interested...
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=133003

I don't think it's a ATI issue per se, as I know that Radeon(desktop) cards as low as a 9600 have run CIV well, and I have a Radeon 9800 pro and run it no problem. I think this is an issues with having true T&L support.

CS

[Jon Miller]

Disk 2 is called the play disk, but Disk1 is what you are required to have in your drive to play

other then that, everything is fine

JM

[Venger]

Still screwed up. Things works for a few turns before the renderer dies. Check the attached picture out. Game was running fine for 3 or 4 turns. Then, I clicked on the advisors, cycling through the buttons. Then I hit one... nothing, but it started to bog. Hit the close option on the advisor, think started bogging bad, like before, and you can see the results .

Color me extraordinarily disappointed in the finished product. Which sucks, because reading the manual, it seems the gameplay aims were just right (and many were ones I modded onto Civ3 myself). But there is something not right with this game engine.

Venger

[Traelin]

Originally posted by Ashjgasimox
Error Message:
Failed to Initialize Renderer - Check DirectX Version and Graphics Settings.

I get the same error.

[Solver]

Venger, that's very strange... I assure you, the betas ran fine on ATI cards and the engine itself is fine. Can't really imagine now what the problem is, though.

[Traelin]

Nah there's no way it's a problem with my drivers, this system is freaking 1.5 months old. See below:

OS: MS Windows XP Pro (5.1, Build 2600)
System Manufacturer: Dell
System Model: Dimension XPSGEN5
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A02
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20 GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Page file: 357MB used, 3580MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

No problems found with DX in dxdiag.

Video card: Radeon X850 XT PE

If these are the problems, then the game is going back cuz there's no excuse.

[Traelin]

Originally posted by Venger
Still screwed up. My pissed off meter is at 10.0.

Hangs every time - one time, it showed the load progress bar and it hung at Init Engine - but most of the time, it doesn't show the bar filling, it just freezes.

In order to make sure my system is running okay, I ran:

SP:WAW
R:TW
BFME
Quake (yeah, I'm old school)
UT
MOO3
Settlers:HoK
Pirates!
GalCiv
Civ3

No problems.

But Civ4 WILL NOT LOAD.

Venger

I hear ya bro. LOL I can run everything else with no problems. I just tried Pirates and Doom3, no prob. The INIT ENGINE keeps crapping out.

[Venger]

Solver - I don't have an ATI card, I was just remarking that I cannot believe there is a general ATI card issue...

I have an Nvidia 5900XT...

Venger

[nahmed]

If these are the problems, then the game is going back cuz there's no excuse.

Wait for the patch, it is kind of sad but the game was indeed rushed so it is possible that these bugs were not spotted by the QA team.

[alva]

Page file: 357MB used, 3580MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

Just as a sidenote, your virtual memory is way too big. With the amount of memory you have, either disabeling or setting it to 500MB is the better thing to do.

[Traelin]

Originally posted by CanuckSoldier


I don't think it's a ATI issue per se, as I know that Radeon(desktop) cards as low as a 9600 have run CIV well, and I have a Radeon 9800 pro and run it no problem. I think this is an issues with having true T&L support.

CS

Wait, I've never heard about the the Radeon X850 XT PE having T&L problems...