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Tom's Hardware > Forum > Games General > PC Gaming > Civilization 4: "error loading shader libraries"

Civilization 4: "error loading shader libraries"

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While trying to load Civ 4 I get an error message: "error loading shader libraries"
I thought I just need to update my video card to the latest driver (8800 GTS) but that didn't seem to do anything.
I'm not sure what else to do, I've checked the Civ forums and I can't find much of anything relating to my problem.

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Have you patched the game to the latest version? I think it's 1.61.

Reply to septic

yup, I've got the latest patch and all that jazz, I don't know what else to do. I tried to the art pack patch, but that didn't seem to do anything either.

Reply to shadowtheweak
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Uninstall the game and clean your PC of any files that the uninstall might have left behind. Reboot and re-install.

That's helped me in a few cases.

Reply to Ananan
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If you are using Warlords, then the problem lies in the latest patch
and you now have to update your direct x
it is all explained here at this forum http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=232116

Go to page 3 and it will have a link to the file you need

Reply to kendogg
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Hi guys. Are you having problems with shader libraries not loading. It seems like you all are, so don't listen to everyone sending you to download some crappy file or exe. that will not even fix it. I've tried numerous times and those updates from other places don't work correctly. I went to this link (below) and downloaded this in 10 minutes and installed, then I played the game with no problems (Online and Single player). So, trash those other updates and use this 100% Cure. I can now enjoy the game that I've desperately tried to get working for a week now.

Go Here: http://rapidshare.com/files/395880 [...] redist.exe
(click the "free" button and wait 1.7 minutes to get your
download)

Reply to Cowmatrix
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HEY!!! that file giagantic file is an unregistered torrent and possibly malware. Sysops if you are reading this delete Cowmatrix's post. :non:

To solve this problem simply download dx3d9_31.dll and 32.dll and drop them in the civ4 root directory. done.

Reply to macvsog

where can you download dx3d9_31.dll ?

Reply to mycivisbroken

macvsog wrote :

HEY!!! that file giagantic file is an unregistered torrent and possibly malware. Sysops if you are reading this delete Cowmatrix's post. :non:

To solve this problem simply download dx3d9_31.dll and 32.dll and drop them in the civ4 root directory. done.



Solved it for me :) Thank you.

Reply to New_Player

"To solve this problem simply download dx3d9_31.dll and 32.dll and drop them in the civ4 root directory. done."

After trying all the other methods, this one worked and the game launched without the "shader libraries" error. Thank you much, macvsog.

Reply to Anonymous

macvsog,

Thank You from Brasil. Works!!! Finally I can play! Obrigado.

Jorge Lander

Reply to doublebeer

You would probably want to run the offical DirectX Updater from Microsoft, to update any missing DX files.

Reply to gamerk316

New_Player wrote :

Solved it for me :) Thank you.


The root file? help me out here please guys cos' this is the most irritating problem ever for me to be honest so please can you tell me?

Reply to Anonymous

Download and run the offical DXupdater form M$ to make sure DX9.0c is updated. (Mandatory for Vista users).

If that doesn't fix it, re-install, as the games files probably got deleted/corrupt somehow.

Reply to gamerk316
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It,s not Solved it for me

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