[wolverdick]

First off let me thank you all for this forum, it is excellent.

Short History: I recently had to replace my mobo, and since the old one was discontinued I had to upgrade. That process rendered my raid drives incompatible so I am basically starting from scratch with a whole new system. And so I also took the opportunity to upgrade from Win XP 64 to Windows 7 Ultimate 64.

Now I am going through the agonizing process of reinstalling all of my games and apps.

I have re-downloaded Civ 4 from my Direct-2-Drive account and ran the installer, no problems there. I then encountered problems with it not locating the msvcr71.dll and msvcp71.dll files.
I downloaded and purchased the registry booster 2010 software recommended by this site and it corrected those problems. (I dont mess with the registry myself, ever)

now when I try to launch the game i get the "application failed to start error: 0xc000007b" message.

I realize this indicates a hardware or driver conflict but I am not sure what, if anything, I can do about it.

After installing the new version of Win7 I made sure I updated my NVidia drivers, and my audio drivers before doing anything else. So I am sure that all my drivers are up to date, and my system is new and free of errors. I also downloaded and installed DirectX from the microsoft website, so I am certain that is up to date as well.

My question is: Is there any way to fix this problem? Civ 4 is one of my favorite games and I am saddened that it refuses to open.

I have successfully downloaded and installed a couple other games from D2D and they worked fine.

I looked through all the other 7b error posts and Civ 4 posts without finding any solutions, so Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you.

My system specs: AMD 64 FX62 proc, 4Gb ram, Nvidia 8800 GTX video, and using the onboard audio of my M3N-HT deluxe mobo.

[wolverdick]

I thought I should also mention that I have already turned off the account security crap in windows 7, and I have tried to run the application in compatibility mode under several different setups, all to no avail.

I know Civ 4 is a hugely popular game so I hope I can find the answer here.

[wolverdick]

couldnt find any help at several Civ 4 forums...

anyone have any ideas???

[Couriant]

Is this the only game that has the problem? Do you have any other games from Direct2Drive that installed sucessfully?

[Couriant]

http://www.firaxis.com/support/suppo...gameid=6&cat=2

Talks about a cache... not sure if it will help. There is a link to 2K games if you dont have any luck.

[wolverdick]

I have successfully installed about 25 other games from D2D with no problems at all. I've been so busy with that, I havent taken the time to research my Civ4 problems much...

I will probably be sending some support requests to the folks at 2k/firaxis. I will definitely update this thread if I find any answers.

but if anyone else still has any ideas...I am open to try them.

[wolverdick]

never found an answer, but I believe that the problem was ingrained in the activation software and not in the game itself.

I decided to just get a new copy of Civ 4 complete through Steam, downloaded, installed, and executed without any problems.

[Couriant]

interesting.... so you can mark this thread solved on the top left if you are finished here.