Regarding the game being bugged stupid...I guess I must have been lucky. I
installed the game, installed the latest patch and have been playing the
game w/o any problems.

FelicityCat...your problem definitely sounds like a bad CD (or the drive).
Hopefully the steps outlined by Jimmy isolate the problem for you. How do
other disks work in the drive presently? If other disks are good and
copying the files from the Civ disk(s) to the hard drive to run doesn't work
then I'm sure exchanging the damaged disk(s) will allow you to get up and
running!

I know this post didn't really help solve your problem, but I just wanted to
let you know that the game can and will run! :-)

"chronos" <chronos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> "FelicityCat" wrote:
>
> > I have been trying to get the game to run without crashing. I installed
the
> > patch and updated my drivers. But it still crashes to the blue screen
every
> > time I run it. There have been various messages.
> >
> > Here are my errors:
> >
> > Error log -- "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\cdRom1"
> >
> > Dr. Watson -- "application exception ... exception number c000001d
(illegal
> > instruction)"
> > Dr. Watson -- "... exception number c000005 (access violation)."
> >
> > Urgh, I've been trying for days to get this to work. Please help!
>
>
> if you read any forums associated with civ 4 then you'll see that it is
> bugged stupid the whole civ 4 game is more or less unplayable! I got my
copy
> to work to a point but it still crashes eacha nd every time a wonder movie
> trys to play best bet is to take it back and get something else! that's
what
> I'm going to do it's just not worth the hassle of trying to run something
> that won't run!
>