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System specs will follow. I've read the forums and tried lots of different things. I'm fresh out of ideas. I don't know if this is anything that's been found before. Hopefully someone will have some ideas.
The first time I played, I just installed it on my machine. Windows is 2 years old since last reinstall and the computer is anything but clean. Almost everything worked fine until I got to 2000 B.C. and then it died. The only glitch was with headline fonts, like at the tops of windows or on the main menu. Sometimes they would look like alien jibberish. Anyways, I restarted and tried and never got in the game since. Most of the time it dies when it tries to load the main menu. I've also had one on a resolution change attempt. I had them in a couple other nondescript places.
I upgraded the drivers, tried everything I could. So, I reformatted the computer and reinstalled Windows. I installed my network drivers off of CD (they aren't in the Windows driver registry), Firefox, all of the critical updates from windows, none of the optional ones, the latest nVidia drivers, and then had windows update install the latest sound card drivers (since they are more recent than the ones on asus's website). Then I installed Civ IV.
2K support had me disable all my startup tasks in msconfig. They also had me e-mail them my dxdiag results (and have still to reply to that). Basically, they haven't helped much at all, and I think they're quite useless. I still want to play this game, though! Any ideas?
Oh, I promised specs:
AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1900+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.6GHz
1536MB RAM
DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Award Modular BIOS v6.0
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2 (5.1, Build 2600)
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT, 128.0 MB RAM, nv4_disp.dll version 6.14.0010.8185 (10/10/2005 21:49:00)
Sound: C-Media Wave Device, cmaudio.sys version 5.12.0001.0643 (11/18/2002 15:51:40) [integrated]
ASUS Motherboard A7V333
Things I have tried:
- Reinstalling Windows
- Older versions of nVidia drivers
I'm thinking about reinstalling and not upgrading the sound card drivers, but that's gonna take a while so I'm putting it off. Maybe see if someone has an idea that doesn't involve reformatting the computer I just formatted.
The first time I played, I just installed it on my machine. Windows is 2 years old since last reinstall and the computer is anything but clean. Almost everything worked fine until I got to 2000 B.C. and then it died. The only glitch was with headline fonts, like at the tops of windows or on the main menu. Sometimes they would look like alien jibberish. Anyways, I restarted and tried and never got in the game since. Most of the time it dies when it tries to load the main menu. I've also had one on a resolution change attempt. I had them in a couple other nondescript places.
I upgraded the drivers, tried everything I could. So, I reformatted the computer and reinstalled Windows. I installed my network drivers off of CD (they aren't in the Windows driver registry), Firefox, all of the critical updates from windows, none of the optional ones, the latest nVidia drivers, and then had windows update install the latest sound card drivers (since they are more recent than the ones on asus's website). Then I installed Civ IV.
2K support had me disable all my startup tasks in msconfig. They also had me e-mail them my dxdiag results (and have still to reply to that). Basically, they haven't helped much at all, and I think they're quite useless. I still want to play this game, though! Any ideas?
Oh, I promised specs:
AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1900+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.6GHz
1536MB RAM
DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Award Modular BIOS v6.0
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2 (5.1, Build 2600)
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT, 128.0 MB RAM, nv4_disp.dll version 6.14.0010.8185 (10/10/2005 21:49:00)
Sound: C-Media Wave Device, cmaudio.sys version 5.12.0001.0643 (11/18/2002 15:51:40) [integrated]
ASUS Motherboard A7V333
Things I have tried:
- Reinstalling Windows
- Older versions of nVidia drivers
I'm thinking about reinstalling and not upgrading the sound card drivers, but that's gonna take a while so I'm putting it off. Maybe see if someone has an idea that doesn't involve reformatting the computer I just formatted.
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