[BUG] No graffics

from Elemental Forums

Hey there and merry christmas

I bought the game from Steam. When i load a game from new game i get no grafics at all. I get the Action bars, mini map and all that but where the world should be i only get a white screen.

 

My drivers are updated, have tried to reinstall the game and the problem is still there. So sadly i have not tried the game yet due to this problem.

 

So i hope that you might have a solution for my "small" problem.

 

Thanks

3,355 views 9 replies
Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

This sort of issue is typically seen with ATI cards using certain antialiasing settings. If that's your case, check some of the AA settings in the Catalyst panel (sorry, don't have any machines with ATI cards on hand to confirm myself).

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Sadly i have tried every possible option for the grafic setting there is.

I use AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series

 

And off all the games that i own this is the only game that i have a problem with.

ObjectDock - Access shortcuts and frequently used applications from an animated dock.
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

thyphuss, I am using a ati 7850 with the 12.11 driver and spanned screens giving me a 1920 X 2160 desktop/game screen on win7 64 bit with 32GB ram and have had NO issues,(even the ram crashes have not happened even with the xxl maps and 18 ai on a map with several stacked mods).

could you please give a bit more info about your computer?

harpo

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Hey kryo-

 

I have the same problem. Where is the catalyst panel, in a driver control panel, or in game?

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

the catalyst control panel is in the all programs/catalyst control centre/catalyst control centre and allows you to alter the default settings for the display

harpo

 

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

I had this ATI problem - Here is how  I  fixed it.

On the task bar or from the start menu , start the "Catalyst Control Center"

On the menu on the right hand side, select "Gaming" and "3d Application Settings"

On the right hand settings panel - these are your default settings:

For:

Anti-Aliasing - set mode = "User application settings"

Morphological filtering "unchecked"

Filter = "standard"

 

Anisotropic Filtering:  set "Use application settings" = checked

 

Tessellation - set "Use application settings" = checked

Catalyst A.I. - Texture = "high quality"

                     "Enable Surface Format Optimization" = unchecked

Vertical refresh:  Anti aliasing = performance 

Opengl - doesn't matter

 

Click "apply"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

It doesn't matter if you have your Anti-Aliasing mode to User application settings.  If your Anti-Aliasing mode is set to Adaptive Multi sample, you will lose graphics and suffer black screens.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

I took a few minutes to monkey around with the ATI Catalyst "3d Application settings" to get it tp a state where the graphics disappear.  By disappear is when you load a game and go to the map screen. The menus show but the map is a solid blurry shade of beige. The culprit setting is in the "Anti-Aliasing Mode" setting.  Use any setting but the one in the middlie called "Adaptive Multi-sample AA" - That is the setting that breaks it. All of the other settings are OK to change. I have an ATI 7800 series card. With the latest drivers installed. Windows 7 64 bit OS

 


 

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top


It's the Adaptive MSAA that does it.  Switch to regular MSAA... Super Sampling kind of works, but there are a lot of flashing textures during combat.