I am running a new Toshiba Satellite L450D laptop which came with Windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed. I have been using it for a couple of months now with no problems - except that some features in my Microsoft Office suite have stopped working. But I can find workarounds for those problems. Here's my biggie:
I am trying to run the game Civilization 4
Developer: Firaxis
Distributor: 2K Games
I installed the game using the Run as Administrator option.
I then dowloaded and installed the latest patch (ver 1.61) also using the Run as Administrator option. Apart from installing the patch Firaxis and 2K offer no advice. Civilization 4 was first published in 2005, so I guess it's out of warranty. That's great for them but I only bought my copy in 2008.
If I attempt to run the program normally it appears to start okay - with correct flash screen - but then the laptop switches to a blank (black) screen and locks up. There is a lot of HD activity but no sound and nothing on screen. I cannot get Task Manager to work and I cannot toggle program screens.
Next I tried the Troubleshoot Compatabilitty option. This time, with Win XP settings, I got past the flash screen, the credit screens, and the introductory video. Then lock-up as above.
I have now big-red-switched my laptop off and on about a dozen times and I'm fed up. Hard re-starts have caused havoc with my settings. I had a heart-stopping 10 minutes when, after one re-start, all my Administrator access appeared to have been deleted and I could only find one way to access File Explorer. Then System Restore refused to roll back!
Since then the laptop appears to have gone back to normal - although my (non-Microsoft) firewall appears to have lost its database of safe programs and is slowing everything down by asking me questions every 5 seconds. Also, I won't dare to try System Restore again until all my work is fully backed up.
Please help - while I still have hair to tear out.
Steve.
I am trying to run the game Civilization 4
Developer: Firaxis
Distributor: 2K Games
I installed the game using the Run as Administrator option.
I then dowloaded and installed the latest patch (ver 1.61) also using the Run as Administrator option. Apart from installing the patch Firaxis and 2K offer no advice. Civilization 4 was first published in 2005, so I guess it's out of warranty. That's great for them but I only bought my copy in 2008.
If I attempt to run the program normally it appears to start okay - with correct flash screen - but then the laptop switches to a blank (black) screen and locks up. There is a lot of HD activity but no sound and nothing on screen. I cannot get Task Manager to work and I cannot toggle program screens.
Next I tried the Troubleshoot Compatabilitty option. This time, with Win XP settings, I got past the flash screen, the credit screens, and the introductory video. Then lock-up as above.
I have now big-red-switched my laptop off and on about a dozen times and I'm fed up. Hard re-starts have caused havoc with my settings. I had a heart-stopping 10 minutes when, after one re-start, all my Administrator access appeared to have been deleted and I could only find one way to access File Explorer. Then System Restore refused to roll back!
Since then the laptop appears to have gone back to normal - although my (non-Microsoft) firewall appears to have lost its database of safe programs and is slowing everything down by asking me questions every 5 seconds. Also, I won't dare to try System Restore again until all my work is fully backed up.
Please help - while I still have hair to tear out.
Steve.
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Official english worldwide retail (CD/DVD versions) patch for Civilization IV base game.
What's New in Version 1.61
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- randomized processing order when multiple players try to move on the same turn slice
- only the host can set the admin password
- Horseback Riding now a classical tech
- Kremlin now gives -33% hurry production cost
- can't airlift from foreign cities
- expanded subject for PitBoss e-mail
- lightened the color of some civs' text
- mp retire fix
- less hammers from chops the farther away from a city
- reduced hammer yield from forest chops to 20…
- Mathematics increases forest chop yields by +50%
- SDI cannot be built before the Manhattan Project.
- increased SDI cost
- marines and SAM Infantry now upgrade to Mech Infantry
- better AI-to-human diplo in team games
- no more diplo penalty for helping to end wars
- city production popups stay on city when entering/exiting
- can now set units to Sleep and Intercept in wbs
- Continents map script now produces large continents
- game options and victory conditions now saved in ini file
- invalid buildings now removed from city queues
- Free Trade: Medium Upkeep
- State Property: Low Upkeep
- Representation: +2 happy in X biggest cities.
- Hereditary Rule: Low Upkeep.
- Representation: Medium Upkeep.
- Slaver: Low Upkeep
- Nationhood: No Upkeep
- firepower is now average of curr and max strength
- Gunships now move faster over rails
- No Cheating option renamed to Lock Modified Assets
- city management no longer uses 'forced' specialist states when not automated
- Expansive: +3 Health
- Financial: No longer give production bonus for Banks
- Prompt for admin password when loading a game containing one in LAN, Internet, or Pitboss play
- Don't allow players to play non-playable civs in Pitboss
- Do not display SP only mods in Pitboss
- Allow hotseat/PBEM scenario host to select which civ s/he will play
- Force non-playable civs to be AI in Hotseat/PBEM games
- Allowing for AI slots in player defined scenarios for Hot Seat, PBEM, and Pitboss games
- Do not display duplicate buddy request popups from the same guy
- Peer address handling improvements
- Number keys perform leaderhead actions on Civilopedia leader screen.
- Custom game SP screen remembers difficulty level last played
- Reduced rounding error for population and land victory condition test
- Loading a multiplayer game as a PBEM/hotseat converts it to non-simultaneous turns
- When the city names of your civ are all taken, choose a default name from a random civ
- Timelines more uniform across game speeds
- Military Advisor shows Barbarians
- Tech chooser screen now observes CvGameInterface.cannotResearch() and shows the tech in a red pane if the function returns true
- Fixed American Revolution scenario to work with Pitboss
- PBEM password reminder popup no longer disappears when the game starts
- Wonder description on Wonder Movie screen more legible
- Top Civs screen no longer appears in online multiplayer
- Civilopedia main page sorted in columns rather than in rows
- Pressing escape when selecting goto points now cancels the goto waypoints
- Military advisor now works like foreign advisor: clicking on leader buttons clears previous leader selections unless you hold down the shift key.
- Teams in multiplayer once again share all the players' starting techs, not just the last player's
- Great person point generation from Wonders continues after Wonder has become obsolete
- quicksave doesn't prompt for overwrite
- Fixes:
- exploit fix that allowed multiple players to extract the same gold/resources from the AI...
- Don't set localhost address as public addr for peers on same computer
- fixed gunships capturing cities bug
- game doesn't end on ties
- fixed mp UN voting bug
- Leaderheads on a radeon 9000 64mb - fix for strange skin shading
- Fixed crash that happened when a spy sabotaged an improvement outside cultural borders
- The full mod path is no longer stored in the save when the mod is installed under the user folder
- Double-clicking on a save of a mod now loads the proper DLL
- fixed Out-of-Sync from exiting to main menu
- fixed anarchy/specialist resetting bug
- fixed bug where environmentalism doesn't affect new cities
- fix for missing head mission crash
- fixed stack attack bug with groups of units with more than one move
- fixed premature end-turn unit cycle bug
- fixed State Porperty cumulative effect in team game
- fixed plot list button scrolling for multiple resolutions
- fixed some AI attitude issues for team games
- Strip chat messages of color tags before displaying in Pitboss
- Fixed logic bug that determines the number of open slots in a Pitboss game
- Improving how the host determines if the game is full - number of connections rather than number of players - before, the host wasn't considering joining players when determining if the game was full
- Set status to CLOSED when a computer player dies in the game
- The full mod path is no longer stored in the save when the mod is installed under the user folder
- Load proper DLL when a mod is specified in the ini file
- fix for tech chooser showing known techs as unknown
- Clear map data (like latitudes) when you exit to main menu
- Fixed error in combat calculations when a zero-strength unit was involved
- Fixed bug in Info screen 'rival worst' calculation
- End of game sequence plays correctly for hotseat/pbem
- Diplomacy screen no longer allows end-turn events to go through
- Diplomacy screen gold popups respond to ESCAPE and RETURN
- Right-click select-all no longer causes large stacks to slide off the screen
- No longer possible to attempt to take over unplayable civs in multiplayer scenarios
- Fixed PBEM infinite movement exploit
- Fixed rush production per population for game speeds other than normal
- GNP graph is now consistent with demographics table
- Fix Gunship being almost invisibile in Frozen mode
- fix mod name in progress bar
- New DX9 code takes screenshot without requiring lockable back buffer
- Fixed the vertically launching torpedo for the submarine unit
- Movie playback optimized
- Significant reduction in video and system memory usage
- Fixed some memory leaks
- Fixed crashes with modified SDK
- Fixed XML failures with non-default locale
- Many translation fixes
- Memory related crash fixes
- Fixed diplomacy crash fix (when expanding an empty tree control with space bar)
- Internet lobby -> LAN fix
- fixed pedia and menu buttons disappearing after leaving tech chooser
- PitBoss no longer crashes on victory
- can no longer see number of units in darkened tiles by moving the flag
- No more Archers holding all their weapons and Workers holding all their tools
- No more fog of war missing from the southern ice and from trees/jungle on the dateline
- Pushing 'go back' while joining a mp game, no longer causes background music to disappear
- Wonder movie effect and zoom no longer happens when you have disabled Wonder movies
- City billboards no longer choke on text formatting
- Many tutorial issues fixed…
- Fixed checksum folder order difference between NTFS and FAT32 filesystems
- Many worldbuilder issues fixed…
- Fix: Black eye shadows
- Fix: Some leaderheads appear to have white eyes when the low-res textures option is on
- fixing crack in huge globe view maps
- fixes the problem where animals were not animating in the fog
- Prevent Terrain crash when reloading EarthMap twice
- fixed crash on too quick quickload
- fixed city yields being revealed in FOW
- fixed ability to see cities in FOW via defense modifiers
- ICBM no longer flips upside-down when fortified/awaken
- Fix for combat bug across a map seam
- Additions;
- PitBossSleep ini setting
- unit cycling optimization
- Africa, Europe, East Asia, Eastern U.S., and South America maps
- Fantasy_Realm, Fractal, and Shuffle map scripts
- unit health bar for plot list buttons
- Require Complete Kills game option
- No Movies is now a graphical option (instead of an ini option)
- Warn all users when a player with a different version of files joins the game
- Display a popup warning the host when a joining player has different versions of XML/Python files so he can make sure this guy can be trusted
- Indicate which players have an active turn in the Pitboss admin screen
- Synch Logging now an .ini option
- Able to load mods from the Pitboss
- Hotseat and PBEM scenarios
- Display name of peer you are contacting in join screen if available
- Saving DirectIP join address
- Added culture rate popup help to culture bar in city screen
- Added Admin password field in PBEM/Hotseat staging screens
- Added HideMovieBackground ini option for further movie speedup
- Added HideOutOfVRamWarning ini option
- Exposed many more functions to Python
- Hooked up modern whaling boats
- support for movies in customAssets folder