v1.00 BUG Reports

[Googlie]

What's worked for me (altho I still get the odd freeze when I run out of patience and try to give conflicting commands) is to disable anything that's not needed for the game - disconnecting from the 'net ('cos you'll be vulnerable if anti-spyware and virus protections are disabled)

Even to the extent of ceasing any processes that look like they may vie for system resources (eg I forgot that i had a scheduled virus scan this evening and it came in about turn 100 of a game - froze it completely and i had to power off)

I'm pretty much at the minimum specs:

p4-1.8
512 memory
nVidia GeForce 6800 at 128
MS Soundmax digital audio (maybe I need a new sound card to go with my spanking new video - but I really haven't been having sound problems at all)

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Xeovar
I have found a diplomacy modifiers bug:


Not the signed Open Borders treaty and then the mods: positive for open borders and then negative for open borders

The negative is not for open borders, but for your borders being close to each others.

[Atahualpa]

A city has finished an improvement, I got to chose a new one. Chose "Confucian Monastery" and then the game told me, that this very city is low on culture and should maybe produce a "Confucian Monastery"

[Antic]

Bug: Music not playing during early gameplay and during wrong eras later.

I hope this bug, were the music in the soundtrack is in the wrong folders and the game plays it not at all during ancient era and then during wrong eras later, is gonna get fixed in the first patch.

Music is one of the most important ingredients for me when it comes to the total game experience.

So im not gonna play anylonger untill its fixed Spoils the fun.

However i do not regret that i purchased the game. Waiting to purchase Civ4 just cus of the bugs, or returning it, wont do anyone any good because the CDs wont fix themselves on the shops shelve :P Everyone have to download the patches no matter when they bought the game. Only thing i regret is the huge overseas Shipping fee by air to get it before the stupid late euro release.

[Venger]

I have changed to medium graphic options across the board and it has performed better. However, I have a 5900XT 128MB, and shouldn't need to...

However, it hasn't dumped on me for two days...

Venger

[cyric100]

Hmm, investigating my instability problems further it seems that my PC may be overheating. Having the motherboard monitor dashboard running on the other screen shows the temperature keep spiralling up until failure while CivIV is running (even if I'm not really doing anything with it).

Odd that it hasn't happened for any other apps/games, but at least I have something to work on (and a glimmer of hope) now...

[Tuberski]

This is the opening movie , I don't seen to have any gameplay problems and about half the Wonders movies work, the other half look like this:

[Tuberski]

This is my video card:

Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family

ACK!

[AoA]

I was having the black terrain problem with my Toshiba 5205 lap, P4, XP2, 2.0 Ghz, 512 Meg, NVidia GeForce4 460 Go and I tried something unusual.

I created pangaea world with black terrain and loaded up the WorldBuilder. I put a scout in the center of the map. Close WorldBuilder and did NOT reomve fog of war. Told my scout to auto-explore. As he explored, the fog of war lifted appropriately. And get this....the black terrain was gone! There was a NORMAL fog of war appearance to all the tiles and not the black graphical problem. The clearing expanded appropriately as my scouts moved out and this worked for normally created units as well.

The buggy part (other than it fixing the other bug) is the the cleared fog of war followed my units around. For example, if I had a clearing 10 tiles long horizontally and one vertically, it would be that no matter what unit was selected.
So if a unit moved south, I would be able to see east and west into undiscovered land. And my origin city would disappear in to the fog of war. When I click on a unit in my capital, the clearing would be east-west there, but the other unit and cities would disappear into the fog of war. The area shown all depended on which unit I had selected.
Sorry, don't know how to post screenshots, so I hope my explanation suffices.

[AoA]

Also, not sure if this is a bug, but when I start a new game it offers as my name TOSHIBA_USER. I change it to my name and all is good. Next game I start, its TOSHIBA_USER again. Shouldn't it remember my name and make it the default? Even a blank would be better.
Unless I missed a feature to set my name somewhere, but most other games do learn my name.

[Peterk1]

Just played for 2 hours and noticed some of the stuff that others have....

1. First Wonder Movie didn't play and then crash to desktop.

2. Advisors are slow to come up....

This one's weird. First time I tried to call up an advisor, it took over 5 minutes - with a massive disk swap going on. About a half and hour later tried it again and it came up almost immediately. It's not the same advisor that's slow either. I've had this with 2 of them so far, but I've also had them all come up quickly as well. It's transient...I'll see if I can nail it down a bit better.

Not playing on a killer system but above the minimum at all elements and at recommended for some.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by AoA
Also, not sure if this is a bug, but when I start a new game it offers as my name TOSHIBA_USER. I change it to my name and all is good. Next game I start, its TOSHIBA_USER again. Shouldn't it remember my name and make it the default? Even a blank would be better.
Unless I missed a feature to set my name somewhere, but most other games do learn my name.

This is what I did:

My Documents", "My Games", "Sid Meier’s Civilization IV" and open the “CivilizationIV.ini” file

Go down to Account Name and change to desired name.

Go to In-Game Alias and change to the same name.

Don't know if you need to do both, but In-game Alias is a good bet.

ACK!

[Googlie]

I found (by accident) a solution to my somehwat erratic graphics. I have my winXP set up with my account and a guest account (the latter with minimal other items loaded - really just virus protection - for winter golfing buddies to use the internet when they stay with me)

Anyway, yesterday I wondered if C4 would load on my guest account, and it did, and performed brilliantly (except that I was playing at Emperor, got to 1500 AD with a lag in technology - but was 6th out of 9 on the score list) then that pesky Alexander launched a surprise attack and just overran me)

But I was delighted with the game's performance, so looked at the differences between my settings and the guest settings:

lower resolution
60 refresh versus 75
AOL not launching - or trying to launch (that seemed to be a biggie)

GGLIE

[nyquisj]

Game option issues

Ok, aside from the stuttering movies, stuttering sound, graphic corruption (none of which _really_ impact game play significantly)... I do have a couple of issues that are really nagging at me.

#1 .. Custom Game - Tried multiple games w/ only 5 players. Each time in the game, the players were at max and not limited. Has anyone else seen this???

#2 .. In the latest Custom Game, I was playing at noble level (as I have for other games), Lakes, Epic, tried to select 5 players, and turned off technology trading. I not only ended up w/ the max # of AI, but the Barbs were absolutely unreal... like no other game I've tried thus far. Are the options mislabeled? Or was it just a bad game? Literally, there were at least 4 Barb troops on the screen at any given time, and I only had two cities.. maybe around 2000BC. At first they seemed ok.. I scouted around for a bit with my only warrior but then all of a sudden once I was about 5 (our of 40) turns from alphabet, the barbs just inundated me.

I just ended up quitting as I was getting extremely far behind and all the AI's were encroaching on my space already and I only had two cities.

My config:

Athlon 3500+
BFG 6600GT
2gig RAM
1280x1024

Newt

[Atahualpa]

I found two bugs. The first one is shown in shot 1:

The archer's fortify button blinks blue when you want to move it over a tile with a city on it, even though you don't see the city. That way you could look for tiles with cities, when you don't know them.

The second is an infamous graphics distortion and crash bug:

Happend in about the middle of the game, I don't know why. All of a sudden the map dissapeared, the overlays were still there but as you can see it's very weird. At first it did still move around and such, but then it froze and nothing worked anymore.
My specs: Athlon 64 3000+, GeForce TI 4200 64MB (driver 61.77), 1GB RAM, XP Pro with SP2 (the 32bit version)