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Civ 4 runs fine on my computer, but i'm having an issue with Beyond the Sword. It installs fine, but when i try to run it it closes with a windows error right after the engine launches. I meet all the recommended system requirements and everything. I thought the CD was corrupted but i returned it for a different one and it's still happening. Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, were you able to fix it?
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May be driver problem. Try updating all your drivers (especially the graphics one), update DirectX (did it give error during installation), another guess would be to try and update the game to see if the newer version would run. Does it give a specific error it so what does it say? That is pretty much all my guesses. -
I remember a lot of people had trouble when BtS came out and updating DirectX fixed it for most of them.
WodanComment
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True, BtS requires a bit more of your system (also HW) than vanilla/ Warlords.Comment
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DirectX is the big thing to make sure and upgrade, indeed.
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Snoop, I thought the installer did that automatically. It did for me at least.
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but I know that what fixes a lot of the BTS install problems is upgrading directx
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Especially make sure that your graphics card really supports the needed DirectX version.
Older graphics don´t support it (which was the reason for me to buy a new one as BtS wouldn´t run with the old one)Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
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The graphics drivers should do it. I had a similar problem when I got a new computer recently. I assumed it came with the latest drivers, but I had the same problem when I tried running BTS or the latest version of vanilla, but not the vanilla from the CD.Originally posted by TriMiro
May be driver problem. Try updating all your drivers (especially the graphics one), update DirectX (did it give error during installation), another guess would be to try and update the game to see if the newer version would run. Does it give a specific error it so what does it say? That is pretty much all my guesses.Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi Wan's apprentice.Comment
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Fail.Originally posted by Garth Vader
I got a new computer recently. I assumed it came with the latest drivers....
New computers never come with the latest drivers, unless custom built.
WodanComment
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Hey, the last time I got a new computer I built it myself. The time before that was like 1999, I forget things
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All that binge drinking in your mis-spent youth, no doubt.Originally posted by Garth Vader
Hey, the last time I got a new computer I built it myself. The time before that was like 1999, I forget things
WodanComment
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Given his join date, I suspect he has something else to blame...
<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.Comment
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I updated DirectX and it's still not working, so I guess it's the driver then.Comment
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If my memory went this bad after I passed 30, just wait till I pass 40!Originally posted by snoopy369
Given his join date, I suspect he has something else to blame...
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