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  • #1

    Graphics problems

    Finally got Warlords for my birthday, just installed it a little while ago. Everything seemed fine at first, but the game locked up with a weird grid pattern when I tried to open one of the adviser screens. Ok, I figured, it's an updated game and I haven't upgraded video drivers for a while, maybe that's all it needs.

    Well, no. I went from Forceware 91.something to 94.24. Now I get a screen like the one I attached below. Any thoughts? It ran vanilla Civ4 fine.

    GeForce 6600GT
    Realtek AC97
    Athlon64 3200+
    1GB RAM
    Attached Files
    "In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, Hyperion
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  • #2
    Bah. Driver issue. Does the same thing in Eve now.
    "In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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    • #3
      Correction. Rolled back the driver install and it's still happening, so DirectX must be borked.
      "In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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      • #4
        Now that I'm into the process of trying to fix it, I remember that this happened before as well (Civ4 crashed and nothing DX based would work afterward.) I reinstalled XP that time, but I'd prefer not to do that right now...anybody know why Civ4 would corrupt DirectX or how to stop it from doing so?

        *echo*

        *echo*

        *echo*
        "In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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        • #5
          The Direct3D test:
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          • #6
            Driver issue I'd guess, but no real idea. Does AA affect it (being enabled or disabled)?
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            • #7
              Is it an AGP or a PCI-E card? If it's an AGP card, there are some tricks with AGP that you can do.

              Also, what's your motherboard? Some chipsets, particularly Via, have had issues with nVidia.
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              • #8
                AA settings don't seem to matter.

                It's PCI-E.

                It's an nForce4 based board (GA-K8NF-9), so I'd hope it wouldn't have issues with an nVidia card...but who knows...
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