v1.00 BUG Reports

[Martinus]

Not sure if this has already been reported, but when I alt-tab from the game while in the diplomacy screen, the diplomatic choices (available in the bottom of the screen) become hidden under the normal interface, making it impossible to choose most of them (since you can only choose those which are on top as they stick out from under the UI bar in the bottom of the screen).

Normally you can close the window by pressing ESC, but if you get some offer from them, and at that time you alt-tab (e.g. someone is messaging you and it alt-tabs automatically) you are forced to choose the top option.

When I get home today I will try to get the screenshot of this bug.

[GeoModder]

Originally posted by Sosoaha
2. In the manual its written that resources become available for the city if you build the appropriate modernisation. Thats not true, you must hook them up with a road.

Negative here. Your city can use the yield of the plot/tile with the improvement built on it, but your civilization only receives the resource when a road is linked.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Googlie
Minor bug (or maybe a feature - see later)

Completed a city (call it XX) the same turn as a worker conpleted a road linking my capital city to a cornfield, and I got the "congratulations - you have connected 2 cities and can now share resources, etc"

(ie wrong message per the event)

Unless ..... I am playing as Spain (fishing comes as an inherent tech) and both cities were on the same coastline, so maybe they were getting connected by sea? --- but I didn't get that message when founding subseqent cities along the coast, which leads me to suspect a labeling bug.

It could be both things, actually.

Was the corn the first resource you got for your cities? My guess is you were connected by sea, but the game only chose to inform you about it when you got some resource to share.

[sabrewolf]

Originally posted by Orcrist
Here's an interesting one; look at the "Terrain Movement Cost" for the knight from a mouseover. Looks almost like a signed Int wrap-around. I didn't see whether it had any actual game-effect since I upgraded the knight and haven't moved it yet, but mayber it means he can't move ;-)

you have a REALLY strange city name.

"hi, i'm bob, i live in ArseFace"

[Skeeve]

Ah nuts... just paid 50 bucks for the game and it won't run.

I get this Failed to Initialize Rendererererer.... or something.

I've tried everything I can think of. Updated drivers, directx 9.0c or some such nonsense... still nothing.

Just great. Thanks for the aggravation, Firaxis.
Back to the store you go.

[padillah]

Originally posted by Skeeve
Ah nuts... just paid 50 bucks for the game and it won't run.

I get this Failed to Initialize Rendererererer.... or something.

I've tried everything I can think of. Updated drivers, directx 9.0c or some such nonsense... still nothing.

Just great. Thanks for the aggravation, Firaxis.
Back to the store you go.

Did you go to the Civ4 support site? They've got like three or four different things to try and solve this.

Don't just quit.
Tom P.

[RomanGod]

This thing has a major memory leak. Once when the game was lagging really bad, I went into taskman. the civ4 executable was at 300mb.. whjich is just fine; but my mem usage was 2gb!!! when I booted up civ4, I was sitting at around 280mb. Once I kill civ, then the mysterious 1.4gig disappears.

[padillah]

Re: Mislabeled CD fix

Originally posted by EvilDrummer
Here is how to get your install/play disks working right. but you have to follow these steps very carefully:

1. Remove install disk from your drive.
2. Get other disk out of special packaging.
3. Search desk drawer for sharpie.
4 Search kitchen for sharpie.
5. Take sharpie back to desk
6. Remove cap to sharpie.
7. Take install disk, strike out "Install" and write "Play."
8. Take Play disk, strike out "Play" and write "install"
9 Make sure you didn't strike out the same word as your wrote.
10. Kinda chuckle at this and move on like you never read it.

EVIL

I gotta wonder how sharp some of these guys are that, when given two disks, if one doesn't work - THEY GIVE UP IN WONDER!

If they had two keys and one didn't open the house they'd be locked out.

TomP .

[Googlie]

Originally posted by Mylon
The manual says that the owner of a holy symbol gets to see every city that has that religion in it. This is not true: The only cities revealed are ones of the state religion.

I have fouind that you do have minimal infiltration on those other civ's cities that have your founded religion in it. (that civ doesn't need to have adopted it as a state religion)

I say "minimal", 'cos it's only the units in the city that you see.

Clicking on the city reveals nothing, but roll the cursor over the city and in the screen bottom left you see the city, the troops within it. plus the usual info that you'd get without the religion (terrain defensive bonus, etc)

But very useful info indeed, which, in war, gives a decided advantage in choosing where to launch attacks

Also, if you have closed borders with that civ, all the cities they have with your religion in it are visible - again with their units listed - others are just designated territory on the map (ie you can't see the cities)

[Donegeal]

WAY too many post to read...

I just got my copy. I tried to install. Goes just fine until I have to put in disc 2. I cant get it to do ANYTHING with disc two!

Frustration level is going through the roof. Too back this up, I have a crying 8 week old in the background that I need to be taking care of.

I'm getting really pissed and either my computer or my baby is going to get thrown into a wall, and its NOT going to be my little girl!!!!!

[Donegeal]

Ok... I got it. Baby and computer are safe.... for now...

[Skeeve]

Originally posted by padillah


Did you go to the Civ4 support site? They've got like three or four different things to try and solve this.

Don't just quit.
Tom P.

Advice taken - I'm at work now, so I'll try their recommendations when I get home.

On the bright side - I got plenty of sleep last night since I couldn't get the game to work.

[Donegeal]

Bah! This damn computer is in danger again....

Running the tutorial, I can't see the land and the only thing I can see of "Sid" is his freaking mouth!!! What's going on?

[GeoModder]

Do you have integrated graphics or a dedicated graphics card?
How much RAM has it?
If a card, ATI or Nvidia?

Just some basics.

[Atahualpa]

Donegal, I suggest you open a thread in the Civ4-Help forum... when you are more certain if what you experience is a bug and what it caused, then post it here, best coupled with a screenshot