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holdenfan18

11/18/2008 11:42 PM

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Hi there, I just recently brought the Civilization IV Gold Edition which includes the Warlord expansion. I have a problem with the game and I have ensured everything is updated, graphic driver, game patches, etc but the problem still persist. The problem is everytime I play the game it sometime passes through the introduction graphic, sometime it freezes. Everytime when I play a single game, once I completed a wonder the wonder graphic come up and eventually freezes and crashes. After a few minutes, a error box appears titled Windows - Display Driver Stopped Responding. The error box states that "the nv4_disp display driver has stopped working normally. Save your work and reboot the system to restore full display functionality. The next time you reboot the machine a dialog will be displayed giving you a chance to upload data about this failure to Microsoft." I checked to see if I meet the game requirements and I have met the requirements. My graphic driver is brand new: brand NVIDIA G-Force 6200 XFX AGPx8 128 MB Video Card. I have a pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz with 2GB RAM. Windows XP Home edition fully updated with Service pack 3. Latest DirectX 9.0 with 74.5 GB of space left.
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Bolan Longpants

11/19/2008 5:53 AM

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Hi there, I used to have issues during the wonder animations too. There's an option in the game to switch off the wonder animations. You may also turn down some other video settings. Not sure if this is any help for you.
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Aintmyprob

11/19/2008 8:52 AM

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I ran the game for over a year with a similar system, just a more powerful graphics card... I would start with looking for a graphics driver that was out shortly after Civ4, that was optimized for the game... and as the wonder movies aren't all that important, turning them off won't effect that much, and the opening movie can be avoided with space or esc. keys (can't remember which...) addit: Other thoughts: Might want to check into the temp of that card's gpu when it fails if possible... Is that 6200 a turbocache card or a dedicated memory version, if turbocache, it might be finding a northbridge or CPU flaw. Somewhere in the ini file for the game there were options for "low-end" graphical interfaces... might want to search for the way it alter your ini file.
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