bugger, I can't get Civ 4 to run on my laptop.

[thx1138]

Been looking forward to playing Civ 4 for yonks. Got it today in the post, from eBay. Loaded it up okay, plays fine except.....

I can't see any land. It appears just as a black void. In both tutorial and single player game. Yet if I use my mouse wheel to scroll out, I can see an ariel view of the map.

I thought I had the minimum requirments, my laptop, a Fujitsu Seimens as a 1.4ghz Pentium 4 processor, and 256mbRAM, but I don't know what video card.

It runs everything else okay, just this problem with the map, it runs Civ 3 without any problems.

any ideas what I can do to get the game to run on this laptop, or should I just give up?

[Lawnie]

Are you on Windows XP?

Go to Start > Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced > Adapter.

Tell me what chipset (and video memory) you have.

[thx1138]

Intel (R) 82852/82855 Graphics controller
64 MB

[Lawnie]

[NSR Mick]

[thx1138]

aww bollocks. I'll stick the game in a cupboard until I get a second hand computer in a couple of years time, that will run it. Thanks anyway.

[Lawnie]

Well when you do, plenty of the Radeon and nVidia cards support HW T&L

[EuropeanNC30R...]

Is the game actually any good? I was a big fan of Civ2 but Call to Power didn't seem as good and I was put off the series.

[Mal]

Have played pretty much of all of the Civ series, and must say that I still enjoying playing Civ 2 the most, probably followed by Civ 4. Civ 3 was a real let down, they cut out a load of the best bits of the second and thankfully put a lot of them back in for the 4th.