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Infinityman
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[0.86][bug] UI disappears!

March 13, 2012 12:03:29 PM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

Anybody else have this? I've played a lot of games... last night, for the first time, I started to get serious slowdowns. These were in conjunction with an intermittent disappearance of most of the border UI: armies, cities, unit details, resources. The only part that stuck around was the minimap and turn/spellbook buttons in the bottom right. I tried lots of things to make the UI reappear. End turn sometimes worked, and after a while, didn't any more.

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Taten3n
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Reply #1 March 13, 2012 6:18:21 PM
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I had the same problem, but only on my windows xp desktop.

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Lord Reliant
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Reply #2 March 14, 2012 8:02:13 AM
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Are you running XP, too, Infinityman? What are your system specs?

I haven't experienced the issue you mention, but most of my games haven't been very far into each one.

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Reply #3 March 14, 2012 10:18:36 AM
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I have Windows 7 Premium 32-bit. Running an C2Q 6600, ATI Radeon HD 2400. 4-year-old machine, but reliable. 

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Reply #4 March 14, 2012 11:30:17 AM
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How much RAM?

Specs are certainly reasonable.

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Reply #5 March 14, 2012 8:11:27 PM
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New to this Beta but the first thing I have noticed is also this UI disappearance bug. It happens fairly often for me and totally random as far as I can tell. My only workaround so far is to save/reload every time it happens and that is frustrating lol. Hope this helps isolate and fix the problem

Stats:

Windows XP SP3
Intel Core 2 CPU 2.13GHz
2 GB ram
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
1680x1050 32 bit

 

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Reply #6 March 15, 2012 5:48:51 PM
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4 gb ram, but since it is 32-bit, only 2 gb is available I believe.

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Natjur
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Reply #7 March 25, 2012 5:32:30 PM
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I noticed the UI disappears when the ram usage of the game gets to 1.7gigs

It appears if you reload a game, the memory footprint gets biigger, so I don't think its correctly recycling the memory usage with will cause it to reach the cap and fail.

 

Its easy to recreate, just keep reloading any save game until the memory usage gets to 1.7gigs and then it will crash or fail to load the UI.

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