I've been hearing good things about Civ 4, so I bought it at Best Buy last night. On top of the server problem I had last night, this purchase made for a huge headache. Installation went smoothly enough. Then I tried to start the game.

Time passed. And passed. And passed some more. Finally, a screen with a globe arrived. Keyboard and mouse input was completely ignored for a long while, but finally I got a spinning cursor - and the program just poofed. No error messages, nothing - just poof.

Joy. I hunted around, and found this page - which tells me that I need to uninstall my display drivers and then update them before I can play the game. Now, call me crazy, but that seems a little extreme just to play a game. Do I really need to jump through those hoops?