[Beta 2][Bug] Couple of graphical glitches

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Here's a few minor graphics bugs I encountered during my playthrough:

First of all here's my dxdiag: http://pastebin.com/TrCisSUf 

This was by far the most annoying one. It happened after I had gone to the kingdom menu and came back to the game, had to restart to get back to normal. After that one time it didn't happen again so far, at least not as bad as this. I think it has something to do with clouds.

 

Another one was this. My buildings disappeared after zooming in. That whole city area was full of buildings, all of which disappeared except for the one that was under construction. The workshop in the lower screen was next to the building being constructed. This wasn't a major issue since some zooming in/out brought the buildings back eventually, but I thought I'd report it anyway.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

In the future, please report only one bug per thread. Multi-bug posts make it unnecessarily difficult to summarize and categorize reports for the devs to review.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Haven't seen the first problem before, but I've had the second one (buildings temporarily vanish) several times.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Sorry, I'll try to remember only one bug per thread :( Just wanted to add that the first one is very much repeatable for me, happens in every game at some point.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

SuperTimo - are you using an ATI graphics card with 10.5 drivers?

I see the same things:

1. Happens after coming back from the research screen after a research area is completed.

2. Happens sometimes

3. I also  get invisible creatures (this really sucks when you get killed by them!)

When it happens, I save the game then exit and restart.

 

 

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm actually still on 10.3 drivers (lazy me). I was about to update, but I guess that won't necessarily help either :( This sounds very similar to what you describe, yeah. For me every time it happens it's when going to the research screen, unit designer, dynasty screen, kingdom report, etc. Then I have to keep restarting the game until it doesn't happen.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm having the same graphical glitch when coming back from the empire menu and returning to fog, except for me it happens EVERY TIME I go into the menu and return. The fog I encounter looks a little different then the posted screen shot, I tend to get vertical rainbow lines across the whole screen.

I've turned off Advance Lighting and shadows, but still happens.

http://pastebin.com/yTpbA2tC    

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

You have an ATI gfx card too? I tried disabling all the graphical settings I could, didn't help. Now it's started to look like this also:

Going to the kingdom info screen is the crucial thing here, it's always the trigger for me. I can still play fine from the cloth map, it's "just" the 3D engine that's affected.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

I also get these "fog" glitches every time I play, after a while. The fog also appears on the 3D unit images, like on the unit design screen. Exactly the same fog sprite actually, but smaller.

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

I got an Nvidia and this bug happens to me a lot after after I build my first study and come back from the research screen. I have also noticed that the problem is especially prominent when I play in the South-East portion of the map.

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting SuperTimo, reply 7
You have an ATI gfx card too? I tried disabling all the graphical settings I could, didn't help.
End of SuperTimo's quote

No, I have a Nvidia Geforce 7900 GTO card. I noticed now that the fog changes for game to game, sometimes its the rainbow effect and sometimes its just a heavy fog.

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

I get disappearing buildings, monsters, NPCs and someimes my units too. They are there. If I mouse over it will say what they are. When I save and reload, they all appear again. Windows 7 64bit, 2 gig ram, Nidia 9800GT with 1 gig

Reply #12 from Elemental Forums Top

I can report this happens in the new version (0.803) too, I guess I should make a new thread for it? Started a game, clicked kingdom info and there it is. Funnily enough it disappeared when I opened the info screen for one of the sentinels you now get at the start, so it's not so annoying anymore.

Reply #13 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah, I still have this bug too with version 803.

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

Looks like at least for me opening any unit's info page makes the problem go away once it has happened. Has worked 100% so far for me.

Reply #15 from Elemental Forums Top

The problem went away for me in the last update (804). I didn't see it listed as being fixed in the change log, but its working :)

Reply #16 from Elemental Forums Top

I've had disappearing units & buildings, plus weird whole map sorta-similar to the original post.  The latter usually fixes itself after a while, not sure why.

Only noticed the missing units & buildings in .804 & ATI 10.6 drivers.  Saw the messed-up map in both .803 & .804, both 10.4 & 10.6 drivers.

XP sp3 32-bit, 3mb ram.  512 mb ati 5600.