Main Graphics Screen White

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Hello,

 

I have been having poblem with Elemental. The main game play screen is just pure white. All the menus look fine As I scroll around the screen, I see popups that describe resources under the mouse and the mouse works, it is just the main screen that is white. I have had this problem with every new version of the game as well.

 

Thanks for responding!

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Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Is this happening all the time or only after starting a second game in the same session, alt-tabbing, etc? Please provide your debug.err, we cannot diagnose the problem without context and system information.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I have this problem.  Turning off anti-aliasing fixes it.  Unit portraits, however, are also white (although sometimes I can see some moving lines like the edge of a polygon in blown-out colors - see link) and this seems unaffected by anti-aliasing.  Will play with settings some more and update if I get more results.

Screenshot

System Specs:

AMD Athlon 64 3400+

GeForce 7950 GT 256mb (which has been problematic in other recent betas) - driver version 6.14.0011.9562

2 gigs ram

Win XP Pro SP3

Debug.err, dxdiag, etc

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Update: Turning off Advanced Lighting, as someone suggested in another thread, resulted in being able to see animated characters such as in the sovereign or unit creation screens, however the round static portraits in the main game screen were still whited out.

I then disabled "Transform and..." and that fixed the round static portraits.  This also seemed to make the game much more stable as I was able to play for 50+ turns before CTD, whereas before I rarely got to turn 10.

I also tried starting a new game from within a running game and many of the issues came back.  Animated portraits I could see but there was some kind of white overlay and artifacts (screenshot), and the main game was again all white.