it's an old pic, but when I played Rome TW I usually just let my throwers and skirmishers throw a few stones and spears and then tell them to stop because the enemy is too close. That formation is impossible to beat with mellee and horse men anyway, even if you have archers you need loads of them. And tons of katapults and trebuchets
your graphic card seems broken
What are you talking about?
I found a solution. In the same .ini where the videos can be disabled (CivilizationIV.ini in the MyGames/Beyond the Sword directory) there is a line that disables the "background" while the vids are playing so basically the map goes black. This seems to have fixed the crashes. Played a few hours since and I built a few wonders too and the game was rock-stable again.There is a problem with my Beyond the Sword though. The wonder movies tend to crash the game.[...]
God, how do you play with all that **** in the bottom of your screen????? Is that even necessary?