Civilization IV: Warlords
Jun 15th, 2008 by Steve
With Civ Rev reigniting my interest in all things Civilization related, I thought I’d fire this up on the PC again. Before I started the game I foolishly hit the check for updates button. There was an update for the main Civ IV game which took about ten minutes to download and install. It also found an update for the Warlords expansion, which also took a further ten minutes to download and install. Once I was done with updating I found that the game would no longer start, throwing up an error box saying that D3DX932.DLL could not be found and that I should reinstall the game. I was about to do just that when I decided to do a quick Google first, and I discovered that it’s a problem caused by the Warlords patch and that I just needed to reinstall DirectX instead. Another ten minutes of downloading and installing later the game was running fine, except by that point I simply couldn’t be bothered to play so I went out instead. Pfft.