Possible Fixes for "Failed to Initialize Renderer" Startup Error

[JaguarUSF]

I am not missing that file, and I am still having the initialize renderer problems after following all the suggestions made in this post and others.

[RickJay]

Originally posted by Solver
Have you rebooted? If you have that file and reboot, the game should work.

Yes, I rebooted, and have the file. No, it does not work. Same problem.

[Gorbadica]

Just out of curiousity, what version of Windows are you running? XP? Home or Pro? And most importantly, Service Pack 1 or 2?

[GunnerHauklund]

This is how I fixed the problem:

Uninstalled my ATI Catalyst 5.10 Driver
Used Driver Cleaner 3
Unistalled my adapter from Device Manager
Reinstalled adapter
Reinstalled ATI Catalyst 5.10 (DRIVER ONLY, not the other crap, don't know if this makes a difference but it's what I did.)
Installed DirectX 9.0c from the disk.

AND IT WORKED, OH THANK GOD!

[GunnerHauklund]

Forgot my stats:

Windows XP sp1
Raedon AIW 9700 Pro
2.6 Ghz Pent IV
1 gig of Ram
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card.

[RickJay]

WinXP Home Sp1

[57%]

GunnerHauklund, What did you use to uninstall the ATI Catalyst 5.10 Driver in your first step? Did you use Add/Remove Programs or did you use ATI's utility? Also, what is Driver Cleaner 3?

[Traelin]

OK I got it to work...

If you have a Dell, and if you have a Radeon X850 XT PE, do this:

1. Go to:

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/devices.aspx?c=us&cs=&l=en&s=gen&osl=en&SystemID=DIM_PNT_P4_8400&os=WW1

2. Click "Video Drivers".
3. Click "ATI 256MB RADEON X850 XT Platinum Edition".
4. Download it and follow the instructions, and voila you should be good, assuming you installed Civ's DX9 updates correctly.
EDIT: 5. Oh, and remember to reboot please.

The new driver specs are:

Version: 6.14.10.6525
Release: 3/29/2005

Hope this helps anyone that was as miserable as me...

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Philotas
Radeon 9600 here. I've run the ATI's driver uninstall, installed the new Cat drivers, and still getting the same "Rendering" error. And, yes, I have the d3dx9_26.dll in my c:/windows/system32 folder.

Same.

[codechino]

hm! so no, i dont have d3dx9_26.dll

How do i go about getting this?

[alva]

Uninstall and reinstall, then let the install program install DirectX9.

Probably the easiest way to go

Else look for a file called dxsetup.exe on the CD/dvd and double click on it.

[GunnerHauklund]

Originally posted by 57%
GunnerHauklund, What did you use to uninstall the ATI Catalyst 5.10 Driver in your first step? Did you use Add/Remove Programs or did you use ATI's utility? Also, what is Driver Cleaner 3?

Add/Remove Programs.

Driver Cleaner 3 @ http://www.softpedia.com/progDownloa...load-6505.html

[jadelith]

I have a notebook, and dell isn't famous for updating its drivers regularly (catalyst doesn't work with notebooks).

maybe they should have attached a note on the game box saying "this game may not work on laptops" :P

I formatted my pc, installed every single drive + directx on the cd, installed civ again, didn't work, then returned the game. that was my civ 4 experience.. ah it was a lot of fun! :P

[JFJohnny5]

Tried all of this...still not working...

Uninstalled old drivers
Installed Catalyst 5.10
Updated DX from CD (did not get prompt on install, ran the dxsetup file seperately)

Still getting renderer error
I DO have the d3dx9_26.dll file. it is timestamped 5/26/05
In DXDiag though, my files do NOT have todays timestamp

[BleckLord]

I'm having the same problems:

ATI 9600XT VIO
Cat 5.10 w/ WDM & Controll center (did the uninstall-reinstall)

WinXP Pro SP 2 (automatic updates off, don't know when I last applied patches)

dxdiag shows 9 new files & d3dx9_26.dll is present