Fixing Civ4 Problems: START HERE!

[Mattes]

I tried I think and that didn't work...
Now I uninstalled it and installed it again and start to load and the screen start and immediately send me to the windows starting screen / "Escritorio" (I don't know how is it in english the primary screen where is all the programms, etc.!)...
Haha, maybe it was my destiny not to play it!...

[truthsayer]

Hey Enough, I did the whole MSCONFIG thing, and it didn't do a thing (I have the same error as LordDiamond
Feature Transfer Error

Feature: Default Feature
Component: Civ4 Component
File: D;\data2.cab
Error: Data Error (cyclic redundancy check)

so i tried to open up data2.cab in Wordpad (data2.cab is to big for notepad), but i can't even see that...)
Do you know if there is a LEGAL way of getting data2.cab
also, I don't know if it matters or not but I have "Game of the Year Edition"
I thought that it might have been a scratch, so I cleaned (first with water, then Windex (both times I used a cotton cloth), and finally I went to a professional CD cleaner) the CD. I have also tried it on three different computers and it doesn't work on any of them...

I love the game, but would rather not have to buy a extra copy just to play

Thanks

[WarlikeBasil]

Taskbar, clicking on the Icon once will show the app, and clicking again will hide the app. But the Splash ID 'Detail View' window doesn't conform to this.

[jesse1996]

i have a problem with civilization 4 beyond the sword internet multiplayer...
i can't join games because when I try an error appears:
Version Mismatch

the version of our critical game files do not match our host's.
Cannot join game!


....
can someone plz help me?

[Martin Gühmann]

i have a problem with civilization 4 beyond the sword internet multiplayer...
i can't join games because when I try an error appears:
Version Mismatch

the version of our critical game files do not match our host's.
Cannot join game!


....
can someone plz help me?

I guess that is a simple one. Do you all have the latest version of civilization 4 beyond the sword installed. Just check your program versions. And do you use any mods?

-Martin

[jesse1996]

I don't know how to check my version, (I'm not very good with computers)
but you can check for updates in civ 4 bey and there it says he can't find any.
I only have the basic mods like afterworld...

[jesse1996]

oh in civ bey you can also click about this build.
is that what you mean?
civ version 301
save version 300

[Martin Gühmann]

oh in civ bey you can also click about this build.
is that what you mean?
civ version 301
save version 300

I guess that is it, unfortunately I don't have the game in front of me. But now I would ask the others, versions they have. If there is a missmatch then it's probably this.

-Martin

[jesse1996]

I ask a friend of me and he said he has:
civ version 319
save version 302

ok,
so I have an older version...
but does anyone know how to update it?
when I go to check for updates in civ 4 bey it says he can't find any.

[self biased]

Apolyton hosts the patches somewhere in the downloads section, as does the Firaxis website. [link, for the lazy]

[jesse1996]

I can finally join games in civ...!
thank you Martin and self biased for your help!

I forgot to tell you but I found a download by myself but it didn't work.
so for people who have the same problem it ONLY works from apolyton and firaxis!
thanks again,

Jesse

[seniyajw]

A leak of a member, you can fix with a patch, if only because there are several cities and movements on the card, they lied to their specifications for the system, and it can not be set by a patch that would make me sad.

[apolytss]

I too initially had the rendering problems and couldn't play the game at all.

I looked at my graphics card settings and played with the hardware
acceleration and then the game worked fine. That was on my P3-800 with
ATi graphics card.

I then tried it on my other computer, AMD-1200 with GeForce2 graphics card and haven't had a problem playing it.



But I do have a problem with one of the in game features that I haven't seen anyone else with.

When i select a settler as my active unit, its supposed to show what
resources each tile produces on the map. Unfortunately it shows that
almost every tile on the map produces 2 food, whether its a plain or
hill (except mountains and desert) although when i pass my cursor over
each tile, the tool tip will give me the correct resource ouput for the
tile. This also happens when I'm in the city view and/or when I toggle
yield dispaly. This is just a visual thing, my city still appears to be
using the resources correctly.



Anyone else with this problem?

[Berzerker]

is there a way to disable the global warming BS?

Its by far the worst part of the game