[1.05 Bug] White screen in overland map when loading a Campaign save

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I'm playing on the newest patch, and I'm getting the white screen bug that a lot of other people seem to be getting, except I'm getting it during the Campaign and only when I load a game. It seemed to happen nearly every time, until I turned full screen off and played in a window; now it only happens every other time or so.

I'm playing on a dell e1705, with a go 7900gs video card. I thought if I updated my graphics drivers it would fix it, so I updated to the 179.44 version or so (the highest that still supports the 7900 series). Now, I'm not really getting the same problem, but it's still there. Instead of a white screen, the main overland map screen does eventually show up, (a white screen is there but quickly changes to the regular overland screen) but the performance grinds to a halt: maybe 2 or 3 frames a second, where it would normally play perfect. And the cloth map seems to have disappeared. If I zoom out all the way, I see my sovereign as a little figure, but the cloth map doesn't show up at all.

http://img825.imageshack.us/i/88053585.jpg/

(this is zoomed out all the way to the cloth map, after loading a previous Campaign quick save, and getting the white screen, which fades in the regular overland map)

 

I don't know what other information you need for this, because it's not a crash, so if there's something else you need let me know. But it's a Core 2 duo laptop with a strong video card, and it runs the game fine except for this.

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Please open your debug.err file in notepad, and link the contents into a post here via pastebin. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem.

The file can be found in My Documents\My Games\Elemental

Be sure to copy the debug immediately after the error occurs; if you start the game again, the debug log will be erased and recreated for the new session.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Your video drivers are from January 2009--try grabbing the latest ones that support the Go 7900GS from laptopvideo2go.com if Dell and nVidia don't have anything dated at least this year.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

I didn't think anything supported the 7900gs in the higher revisions, but I did find this:

Nvidia 257.21. I installed it, and I'm still getting the error. I switched it back to full screen, and it's there too. It's a bit different this time though. It didn't happen twice, then on the 3rd reload, the game looked normal, but it was super slow (2 - 3 fps). Then if I zoomed out, there was no cloth map, no figures of units, nothing except the white screen like before. If I reloaded the game again FROM THAT, without restarting the game, then the entire game is a white screen; no cloth map, no nothing, only the cards if I highlight them on the bottom of the screen show up.

http://www.mediafire.com/?uhx0l15qd4513fq

 

Let me know if there's something else I should try.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Same issue here.  I have nvidia graphics; getting a white screen after loading or continuing the campaign.  Right now, the game is unplayable, frogboy said in his last journal entry that there might be a fix for this.  Can you please respond if you are working on a patch for this and w/ an ETA please?