Civilization 4: "Sid meier's civilization 4 has stopped working"

Posted: 06-26-2008, 09:50 PM

topps9898

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Hi all,
I am running Windows Vista and cannot get Civilization to load. I have
spent 4 hours installing and uninstalling with tech support (Downloaded
all recent updates) and still cant get it to work. Has anyone else had
this issue happen to them?
HELP!!!! thanks.

(This is the error message I recieve when trying to load the game)

Civilization 4: *"Sid meier's civilization 4 has stopped working"*
*"A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will
close the program and notify you if a solution is available"*

Vista doesnt give me an option to investigate the problem further.

Any help wpould be much appreciated.

Thanks.

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TheMuffinMan

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Re: Civilization 4: "Sid meier's civilization 4 has stopped working"

Posted: 06-26-2008, 10:57 PM

Did you try updating your vid/sound drivers? What about your dx9/10
drivers?

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topps9898

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Re: Civilization 4: "Sid meier's civilization 4 has stopped working"

Posted: 06-27-2008, 01:26 AM

I just recently built the system in May. I am using an EVGA 780i boar
and 2 evga 8800 GTS video cards. I believe the sound is built into th
board as I do not have a seperate sound card. I think all drivers ar
updated

any other thoughts? thanks for your help

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Stan Kay

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Re: Civilization 4: "Sid meier's civilization 4 has stopped working"

Posted: 06-27-2008, 10:43 AM

I had the same problem but discovered that the Civ 4 installation overwrites
Direct X 9.0c used by Vista. The DirectX 9.0c files with the game are old
and actually cause the problem. I downloaded the distributable version of
DirectX 9.0c from here:-

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Once installed my Civ 4 worked flawlessly.

Good luck.

"topps9898" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi all,
> I am running Windows Vista and cannot get Civilization to load. I have
> spent 4 hours installing and uninstalling with tech support (Downloaded
> all recent updates) and still cant get it to work. Has anyone else had
> this issue happen to them?
> HELP!!!! thanks.
>
> (This is the error message I recieve when trying to load the game)
>
> Civilization 4: *"Sid meier's civilization 4 has stopped working"*
> *"A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will
> close the program and notify you if a solution is available"*
>
> Vista doesnt give me an option to investigate the problem further.
>
> Any help wpould be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> topps9898

topps9898

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Re: Civilization 4: "Sid meier's civilization 4 has stopped working"

Posted: 06-28-2008, 03:21 AM

Actually went back and downloaded all the drivers for my MB, video cards
and vista. Not sure what driver did the trick but it works now.

Thanks for all your help.

Now if I can only figure out some good cub strategy tips for beginners
I'd be ok.

tha I'd again

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jcoltr451

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Re: Civilization 4: "Sid meier's civilization 4 has stopped working"

Posted: 01-15-2009, 08:25 PM

topps9898;761126 Wrote:

> Actually went back and downloaded all the drivers for my MB, video cards
> and vista. Not sure what driver did the trick but it works now.
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
> Now if I can only figure out some good cub strategy tips for beginners
> I'd be ok.
>
> tha I'd again

where did you find the downloads for the drivers? if that's a dumb
question, I'm switching from Mac so bear with me, haha sorry.

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Joe

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Re: Civilization 4: "Sid meier's civilization 4 has stopped working"

Posted: 01-15-2009, 09:02 PM

jcoltr451 <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in

> where did you find the downloads for the drivers? if that's a dumb
> question, I'm switching from Mac so bear with me, haha sorry.

You get drivers from your hardware manufacturer. For instance if you have a
Dell you can go to Dell.com. HP? HP.com, etc.

If you have a custom built system you have to figure out what kind of video
card you have and go get drivers from the video card maker.

Usually nVidia.com or ATi.com

Sound cards are either seperate cards (usually sound blasters
(creative.com)) or on the mobo, in which case you have to identify your
motherboard and get driver updates from the mobo maker.

Good luck.

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