Recent content by allism

I've noticed this a few times, but this is the first time it's happened consistently enough that I felt I could upload a save and have it reproduce. In the save I'm uploading, I'm attacking Gao. When I have a unit attack Gao, instead of the zoom focusing on the battle, it will focus in on an...

Although I like the little Sipahi dude falling off his horse...gives me a chuckle every time.

Well, I'd rather they got the patch right than release too soon...but I'd sure like to know if they're fixing the black terrain issue.

As of Tuesday morning, I still haven't received a response to the email I sent Tech Support on 28 October.

I have not received a reply to my email, but I would be surprised if I heard anything before Monday since I didn't hear anything on Friday. Just to make sure this passes bug reporting muster, here are the steps to duplicate: 1. Install Civilization IV, run the application. 2. Proceed to...

You're making the assumption that the lack of T&L is what's causing this. I hope they figure out what is causing this before they write it off as a hardware problem.

I sent an email to Take2 this morning, I have not heard back anything, even a "we got your email" reply. There's nothing on the Firaxis support site that indicates that this issue is being addressed. One guy in another thread said that he spoke to Firaxis tech support and that they were...

Having attempted to play with it for a couple of hours yesterday, I can say that yes, it is as unpleasant as I have EXPERIENCED.

I think that depends on how you define playable. I don't consider the existing bug to render it playable as a Civ-type game, any more than I'd consider a car with first gear stripped as drivable - it might get me where I need to go in a pinch, but it would be a hell of an unpleasant experience.

When you say you don't care about graphics at all, you need to clarify - some of us are having graphics problems that mean we can't see the game, which renders the game fairly unplayable, but it still RUNS... I think you're going to have more issues with whether you will be able to play or...

There's a list at Intel of Intel products that don't support T&L. The statement at the beginning of the page may be misleading - the first sentence is "Intel® graphics products do not have hardware support for T&L". I don't know if this is true for all Intel graphics products, since it seems...

I tried flipping the bit on bMapVisible, with poor results. There's discussion of this in this thread in Bug Reports: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=133056 I am on a Dell Inspiron 1150, less than a year old, with integrated 64-meg memory (no T&L)

OK, this is REALLY odd - I flipped the bit back to 0, and I'm getting the same display issues. I'm not certain that flipping it to 1 actually did anything now. I did notice this time that when my capital expanded due to culture, the area that was visible also expanded. Still stuck in the...

I tried the XML edit, without much luck - a corner of my playing area was visible, and the part that was visible remained in the same corner as I scrolled - so I could see what I wanted to as long as I didn't directly look at it. It reminded me of a problem I had several years ago when the flu...

It picks up your computer name. If you're not on a network, and you're running XP, you can right-click on My Computer, go to Properties, click Computer Name, and rename your computer (in the computer description field) to whatever you want your default name to be. If you are on a network, ask...