1.52: Tooltips still disappear

although reported as fixed in the readme this is still happening.

After a short while the tooltips are not shown anymore.
I have to ALT-TAB to the desktop and back to the game and there tey are again - for another short time. Then they disappear again ...

Similar problem here.
Prior to 1.52, the solution was to enter the capital, check for tooltips, if not present, leave and re-enter. Then it worked.

Now, after having installed 1.52, I have to repeat this for up to 6 times. As Taronas is German as well, could this be a problem of the German/European/DVD version of the game?

An easier way to get them back is to mouse-over your flag.

If someone would have a sure-fire way of generating this problem (ie - "do this and tooltips disappear"), then please post here - firaxis would be very keen to know!

This is an ongoing problem. I've had it from day one....

It always starts at the what to build next in a city popup. In previous versions, 1.00 & 1.09, it would happen, I would ALT-TAB out, then back in and it would be OK, after resetting my graphics by changing the AA setting to zero and back again. ( The mini map was always screwed up... )

Now, with 1.52, Once the turn is completed, they come back again 75% of the time.
It happens roughly every 10-15 turns, getting worse as the game progresses. Once past 1800 or so, when the world map is known and religions have spread, the game seems to conflict with itself. This is most noticeable when there's a message on the left of the screen and a menu for the build que on the right both trying to happen at the same time. It seems to drop the messages and the info popups instead of alternating ??? The messages are not always dropped, but there does seem to be a correlation.

As to hovering over the flag, it has no effect. Niether does entering the city window. All popups are dead there too. If I go in and change a graphic setting and back a again, it will restore the popups. If I ALT-TAB, it will restore the popups.

Once I've played for an hour or so, I have to shut the game down and restart it. It gets so jittery I can't look at it anymore.

I have a P4 2.8d, 1 gig ram, X600 256meg ati card, and still have a hard time on any map larger than standard once the whole world map is known.

Happy to answer any questions....

I can usually get pop-ups to return by selecting a different unit. This doesnt help when in a modal dialog like research or new city production, but does get thru most of the other problems when I can see the pop-up.

What tooltips are disappearing? The blue ones that should appear close to your mouse, or the transparent box at the bottom-left of the main interface?

A sure-fire way to get tooltips to disappear (at least it is for me) is to use the right click menus. When you have an unit selected and right click to get the menu appear and at the same time left click on the screen map so that both buttons are clicked, which will drag the map around. Releasing right click before left and exiting the right click menu without using any of the choices there will have now made the tooltips unable to pop up.
Also to get them back you just have to pop the right click menu again without touching the left click and exiting it normally.

I haven't noticed any different ways to make the tooltips go away, but at least the above method does it for me everytime.
I'm not very good at explaining that in english, so I can clarify it further if there's parts you don't understand.

Is this the same as the mouse 'rollover' problem? If so then the cure is to de-select "enable right-click menu" in game options if you have it enabled - this bug was in the original game and I believe it has not been fixed yet (haven't tested it since original release myself). It's listed on the bugs thread.

Sorry if this is not the same problem, just trying to offer some assistance.

Velvet-Glove said:

Is this the same as the mouse 'rollover' problem? If so then the cure is to de-select "enable right-click menu" in game options if you have it enabled - this bug was in the original game and I believe it has not been fixed yet (haven't tested it since original release myself). It's listed on the bugs thread.

Sorry if this is not the same problem, just trying to offer some assistance.

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Thanks for pointing this out, as I am indeed using the RMB-menues. Have to check, when I am at home again.