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I'm still playing AoE III and loving it. Is Civ4 better though? I've always been an AoE fan and have always been told to try Civ. Is it one of those things that most people like one or the other? (I'm just about to finish with AoE and I want something else to draw my attention ).

I cannot thank you enough for this, Fernando. I spent over 12 hours yesterday trying to get my system up, and then I found this thread. It still took many more hours, but it finally works! Although, I have a quandry. Under the Device Manager, my RAID Controller is still listed generically and still has a yellow question mark beside it. I downloaded and loaded the lastest drivers (6.69) and that didn't seem to do anything. Anyone know if this is something I should worry about? And just for others, that may need to do this. This is my config: OS: Windows XP Pro x64-Edition CPU: AMD 64 FX-57 @ 2.8GHz Mobo: DFI Lan Party nF4 SLi-DR (nForce 4) HDD: WD Raptor 74GB 10krpm x2 (RAID 0) Ram: 4GB DDR PC3200 GPU: GeForce 7800 GTX x2 (SLi) It was a bit more difficult for me, because I could not get the GeForce card drivers to stick so even after fixing the infinite reboot problem, I was left at a screen that was indecipherable (garbage pixels). I was finally able to boot up in DOS and load generic driver and then reboot into Windows and load the newest nVidia drivers. I did have to update my BIOS first, but I could not find 4.84, so I just went to 5.83 and it worked just fine (however, after flashing it, I had to go back into the BIOS Setup and re-enable RAID before I could continue). Then, just as detailed so wonderfully by Fernando, I used nLite (although I used RC2, which worked just fine) and integrated 6.67 SATARAID drivers into my xp 64 files.