Bugs in the system: could these be what have been messing me up?

[Urban Ranger]

Today I decided to examine the system logs to see if I could find something that could indicate the cause of my problem. In a file called LSystem.log I found the following:

building:Art/Structures/Buildings/Obelisk/Obelisk.nif does not contain a node called SHADOW. Its shadow, if present, will be corrupt!

A total of 11 of these messages in the log.

Warning: Node Leaf_3x1 has no generic art matching constraint 0.000000
Warning: Node Leaf_3x1 has no generic art matching constraint 90.000000
Warning: Node Leaf_3x1 has no generic art matching constraint 180.000000

A whole bunch of these, in various combinations.


Could these bugs be causing my games to crash? If so, how can I fix them? Firaxis?

[Enigma_Nova]

Failure to render an Obelisk will either crash the game at the first obelisk you build, or simply have no effect.
Is there any specific pattern to your crashes?

[Urban Ranger]

Apparently not. Sometimes the game keeps going for hours (okay, a few hours) until I call it a night. Sometimes it lasts just a few turns before crashing.

[Urban Ranger]

Okay, now I am moving up to this.

building:Art/Structures/Buildings/Grocer/Grocer.nif does not contain a node called SHADOW. Its shadow, if present, will be corrupt!

What I am more interested is not why these objects are corrupt, but how to fix them. Could Firaxis post a set of them online for us to download?

[xxFlukexx]

Well I know you've probably already tried this like 50 times, but I dunno what else to start with:
Have you tried reinstalling the game Civ4 and your graphic drivers? What is your graphics card anyways?

Oh and if you can, look for the problematic file and post its size, someone here can at least do a simple check and see if it matches their working properly file. If a file is corrupt I believe a reinstall should fix it or just manually copy said file from the CD and overwrite the corrupt file.

I don't have the game loaded up at the moment, but is there a way to turn off shadows or animations in the graphics settings? Maybe try setting graphic detail to low? Just throwing stuff out there for you to try.

[Enigma_Nova]

You could try installing from an emulated virtual drive + iso downloaded with torrent, and then use your original DVD for copy-protection verification.

That way you can be sure it's not the files on your DVD that are messing you up.

[Urban Ranger]

Interestingly, I can't find the offending files.