I get the white trees, too, but worse. Many of the other structures such as the buildings in the cities all go white as well. Zooming in and out doesn't help. Going back to the main menu and reloading the game doesn't help. I can exit the game completely and restart, then it's fine for just a little while. Turning anti-aliasing on/off doesn't make a difference. Downloading and installing the very latest video drivers didn't help.
I see other graphical glitches, too. Strange "phantom" lines that run across the map. Once during a battle, all the plants and trees started flickering little black and white pixels. Once the screen got into this habit of flashing as my army moved across the map. Sometimes without warning, the screen will suddenly go white, with a blue gradient on the left and right side, for a few seconds, then go black for a few seconds. Sometimes when this happens, it will actually return to the game and everything will seem fine. Other times, the game crashes with a DX error.
It's annoying enough it makes me not want to play the game, just because of the numerous graphical issues.
Some details on my setup:
Win 7 SP1 x64
2x Nvidia 570GTX SLI
i7 CPU 3.2GHz
6GB RAM
Any advise is welcome. Thanks in advance for any help. I suspect, though, another patch will be in order for this.