Civ 4 - Warlords - Show Tiles Bug?

Wintermute scribed:

>On 4 Dec 2007 23:09:07 GMT, "Canopus" <JLNKOOECOCGY RemoveThis @spammotel.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Not long got this extension to Civ 4. When playing and click on the Show
>>Tiles icon or use Cntrl +T music and background sound continues, but,
>>screen goes black, no image, then get error that "Civ 4 has encountered an
>>error and must close". This happened once yesterday then recovered after
>>re-launching it, but, today every re-launch encounters the same error when
>>Reveal Tiles is clicked. Anyone know anything about this? Running on XP
>>Pro SP2.
>>
>
>Not sure, but that sounds like it could be a video driver issue.
>Make sure you're using the latest drivers for your video card.
>I had a similar issue with original Civ4 when it first came out,
>except it was enabling the grid that caused a crash. Updating the
>driver for my video card fixed it.
>
>>Also, when I first installed Warlords about a month ago I ran the updater
>>and installed the latest patch. The result was it was impossible to
>>launch as the installation seemed to have deleted a file (can't remember
>>what it was now, but, it wouldn't launch because of it and had to
>>reinstall it without the patch). Anyone had similar experiences?
>
>No problems here with the latest patch for Warlords (version 2.13),
>but then I haven't played Warlords alot since BTS.
>
>What version were you updating to? I seriously doubt it deleted a
>needed file, Firaxis is not Sierra!
>
>Could also be a video driver issue, if it just won't start. Or maybe
>something went wrong with the updater. Try to download the patch
>here:
>http://www.firaxis.com/support/support_detail.php?gameid=13&patch=1
>and apply it yourself.
>
>You may get more/better feedback asking questions like these at the
>bug report forum for Warlords (or one of the many other Civ4 forums)
>at CivFanatics:
>
>http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=170


Got it fixed thanks. It was Direct X, I thought I had the latest, but,
although the latest is 9.0c which I have evidently MS releases updates
with the same number which means when you run Windows Update it doesn't
detect it as an older version so doesn't offer a newer version...typical
of MS. Updating to the latest version allowed me to install 2.13, it was
a dll that was missing relating to Direct X. Also, now the grid is back
and doesn't crash the graphics when turned on and off, presumably the grid
is generated by Direct X too. Glad it was something as simple as that and
unnecessary to upgrade Graphics card or even roll back Graphics driver and
update it.

Two hours wasted due mainly to MS not putting proper numbers on their
updates. Still, hopefully the game will go smoother now.

--
Rob

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