HUGE Prob!! Cant run Civ, Do I have to wait until PATCH????

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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
I have always thought it strange that a video card problem can cause programs not to run. That should be a problem at the operating system level, i.e., your operating system should present a virtual video system for the applications. The applications play with this virtual video system, and the OS translates the whole works to hardware.

That's Windoze for you

Urban Ranger, again you reek of ignorance even though you're quite an old guy with tech.

Your OS of choice doesn't even support graphics natively.

And what you're thinking of is called 'DirectX'. Unfortunately, S3 makes crap drivers so it doesn't display right on their parts.

Linux has the problem much, much worse. Far less cards are supported, and even then, support is minimal and most of the time completely dysfunctional.