Cloth Map and Sovereign images are empty

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I just installed Elemental and made my first attempt at running the game.

When I am at the screen to choose my sovereign the box on the right that I assume shows the avatar has yellow lines but no discernible image. I can click through and begin the game but the map experiences the same issue where no graphics are visible but I can occassionnally see some yellow pixelation.

I'm running this on an AMD Turion ML 40 with a Nvidia GEforce GO 7900 GS video card

Windows 7

Driver version is 7.15.11.7967 from 3/6/2009

I did not see any posts close to this issue. I tried changing resolution and 3d properties but nothing made the images visible.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Try turning off anti-aliasing. And advanced lighting.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

thanks for the tip, worked great

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Gorstagg, reply 1
Try turning off anti-aliasing. And advanced lighting.
End of Gorstagg's quote

This has been a constant thorn in our sides, and almost always replicated in every BETA released?

When will it be fixed?

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

It's not a universal problem.  I play with both AA and advanced lighting without problems.  

I would imagine it is tied to a driver issue, and Stardock can't change the drivers, they must be waiting to see if NVidia and ATI will respond to their questions, if not they will have to change the internal game engine to do things a different way (which maybe a lot of work).   

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Anomander, reply 3



Quoting Gorstagg,
reply 1
Try turning off anti-aliasing. And advanced lighting.


This has been a constant thorn in our sides, and almost always replicated in every BETA released?

When will it be fixed?
End of Anomander's quote

From Frogboy's 3C thread:

- We are close to fixing the problem with certain nVidia cards where the graphics are blurry or goofed up (affects a small number of ATI cards as well). Zee drivers, they lie!

End of quote

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

It doesn't suprise me that it could be a driver issue. I'm running an NVIDIA 7900go GS in an Alienware Aurora system. The system came with Vista but I upgraded to Win 7 recently and there are no drivers from Nvidia for this card on Win7.

I had to go through a number of their different Vista drivers and do some tweaking to get NWN2 and CIV4 to run successfully but I finally got both of those stable. Now elemental is here and I forgot everything I'd learned about tweaking the 3d card to work.