Could you post some screenshots of your civilizations?

I haven't had a chance to play it yet, but it says alot that Civ4 is the first game I've actually bought* in somewhere around five or six years. If I had to pee right now, I'd be peeing my pants in anticipation.


*That is, paid currency for.

Major issues with ATI cards and even screwing up the packaging make this game a lot less classy. It's probably fun if you're one of the lucky ones who can actually play it.

I've heard several people complain about problems with ATI cards, but it works just fine with my Radeon X800.

Yup, I especially love the opening music, though I don't understand the lyrics.

Hi
Had a good time reading your blog.
I installed CIVIV but what a problem eh with my ATI Radeon 9600 and what a hack to get it right. I tried 4 times already but always messed up on some step - the most beautiful one is : install in default directory (on C:!!!) because otherwise it won't work, important!
Important yeah right I thought, no way anything is going on my C: drive if I can stop it.
Well, it didn't work. Wonder if it will...

Pretty d*mn pathetic for all those millions spent in development and they screw up on ATI drivers, a real turnoff.
Good luck all!

I had the problem too, went through the whole rigmarole, installed it on my weensy main hard drive and everything, and it still didn't work. However, way at the veeeeeery end of the solution page at the manufacturer's website there's a part about 'unpacking the art pack file' as a last resort. I did that, and it worked like a charm. It's installed on my hefty hard drive, and it works very well indeed.

So my advice is, do the last resort first.

I have a problem with my graphics card too. It also looks like that it eats up a lot of space in the memory. The music is great. I'm thinking of ripping the music in the opening/main menu.

Game was sold out in the stores, so I bought it from Direct2Drive. No ATI driver issues ... but the in-game score doesn't play. I suspect the game normally plays it off the CD, and they failed to either include the score or failed to point the game to the proper location of it.

Normally I turn off the music after a dozen games, but I'd like to hear it once.

When I started Civ IV for the first time I was amazed about the opening menu and the background music played. The ambiance was so great. I couldn't wait to actually play the game to recommend my friends to go buy the game. I knew it would be another hit from Sid Meier. After a few hours of uninterrupted play my verdict is : terrific! Anyone please go buy this game, the team at Firaxis truly deserves it. And by the way is there anybody who know the name of the artists who perform the opening menu music ?

Yeah I wanna know the artist who perform the opening music too..!! Anyone have any ideas??

The music is from sanford's talisman...google and a result will come up for their webpage

Thank you kindly sir.....

Did a search and I can't seem to find anything on sanford's talisman, it comes up with all sorts of paranormal bol**cks, even tried a searh on amazon and play but they had nothing either??

Any one know who is the artist for the opening music of Civ 4?

Thanks

Talisman A Cappella

interesting music...

i came to this site trying to find out how to rip the music, lol

Well.. all the music is located where you installed the game.
Civilization 4\Assets\Sounds\Soundtrack

The group is indeed called Talisman A Capella at www.stanfordtalisman.com. They are comprised of students at Stanford University in California and are semi-pro. They are very good, different, relaxing. Great game score too. I have ATI 9800XT with lates Catalyst and no video problems. No problems with a custom install to another drive/directory. It is a HUGE memory hog though as it consumes 98% of my 1GB RAM after a short while and the disk is CONSTANTLY paging, sure seems like a memory leak to me. After a couple hours playtime (especially large maps) it slows to a crawl on my 3.8GHz P4. Then it is close down and restart the game time to fix it, for a while. But, it is a fantastic game and a couple more patches will make it even better!

Please tell me who plays the soundtrack of the game...the main soundtrack...from the menu...thanks..

Title says it all.

Thanks for the tip that the sounds are included in the install. I was actually looking to buy the civ IV soundtrack, lol. You'd think they'd include some id3 tags on those mp3 files though.

For those of you that hasn't found the artist yet.

http://www.stanfordtalisman.com

/Henrik

First of all I downloaded the Demo. Simple enough. Then I played the demo.... I got as far as the opening menu... I heard the song and was out the door running to buy myself a copy! I went hungry for a week but i dont care!!

Now I delved into the Civ4 folder and was happy to learn there is almost 9 hours! of music.. this music combined with the visualizer over at www.soundspectrum.com makes a great relaxer after a hard day at work.

I swear though The opening menu song is all I needed from the game I've listend to it at least 1000 times by now.

If its possible to wear an mp3 out i am well on the way. Thanks for the links, i feel a CD buying spree comming on...especially as watch me fly has Swing Low on it (being a huge rugger fan and all).

The opening song is this:

"Baba Yetu" by Stanford Talisman

Gotta agree with everyone else here. =)

The opening song is just breathtaking. Well, not really breathtaking. But I think most of you know what I mean. Just one reason to open the game and sit and listen in awe.

Anyways, happy playing guys and gals!

When i hear it i think of another song that i like. It´s the Macmillian River love song by Jerry Alfred and the medicine beat.

Just wanted to share this with you.

i agree, the very first thing that grab your attention is the beautiful menu and the opening theme. omg, after having to exit the game for the video setting to take effect; i cant help but trying to locate the soundtrack folder to add to my playlist. gosh!

Christopher Tin at http://www.christophertin.com/samples.html

He is an alumn from Talisman. Anyway, he's worked on a crap ton of compositions from various movies and you can download some high quality samples from his site.. Enjoy :)

I tried getting the music from Civilization 4\Assets\Sounds\Soundtrack but all the folders were empty. Am I missing something?

Yes, Talisman has been one of my favorites for a long time now. I was beyond tickled when they were chosen to do the music for Civ4. The opening title is called "Baba Yetu", and is a loose version of the Lord's Prayer, sung in Swahili, and, believe it or not, the lead male vocal, is a very talented young man named Christopher Tin, and he is of oriental descent, not African, as the music would suggest. Here is his website: http://www.christophertin.com/biography.html

Hope this was interesting for you all.

Can be found here. Search the page for the word "soundtrack" or "Baba Yetu"(the title of the song).

Yes the song is amazing and so are others by Chris. You can download it here and samples of his other stuff.

http://www.christophertin.com/samples.html

Good work Chris, keep up the good work son! :)

hey, thanks for the info on Christopher Tin.. i was just searching for the civIV song..

I'm a fanatic of the music, be sure to see the Wikipedia article on this:

Tells you all you need to know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_Civilization_IV

Thank you for sharing info on Talisman and Christopher, the creators of such a brilliant music theme as Baba Yetu.

I know. I checked there, all of the folders were empty.
Someone should be fired for this blunder.

I also checked in those folders and all of them were empty, what happened?

I just installed Civ 4 and the menus look like they are in some sort of chinese script. Checked the ini files and english is set as default. Any help??? Thanks

I love the song on the menu, but I don't know what its called or else I would buy it. Does anyone know what its called?

http://www.civfanatics.net/downloads/civ4/music/BabaYetu.mp3

Enjoy

I heard this song at Video Games Live and i loved it, Shok, you the man!!! Thanks so much for sharing this beautiful piece of work with the world!!!

Those with empthy soundtrack folders might wanna enable hidden files.