Pea soup terrain or crash...

I am running Civ V on two different machines. One is a Dell laptop, the other is a Samsung tablet PC.
Dell runs Win 7
Tablet runs Win 8

The upgrade to Win 8 on the tablet turned all my terrain (grassland) to a pea soup texture which is almost impossible to look at. Resources look like pictures dropped on top of a pea soup. Before the Win 8 upgrade it worked no problem.

To solve this, I was running in DX9 mode. That worked great, no pea soup.

Then the latest update came through on steam. DX9 mode now crashes on the "click to continue your journey" screen when I try to load my game. On both machines.

On the laptop, I can run in DX10/11 mode and it works OK, but slowly (with the jumping gray boxes... annoying, but it runs).

On the tablet, it runs in DX10/11 or Win 8 mode but with pea soup textures.

On both, DX9 mode crashes.

Now I am left with either crappy graphics (jumping gray boxes/pea soup) or nothing (crash).

The tablet is running an Intel chipset. All up to date as of today.

The Dell is running an ATI graphics adapter (which, I can't remember right now).

Neither had an issue in DX9 before the update.

Please advise.

Update: Started a new game. No problems so far... Could the problem be with the save file and if so, is there a way to resurrect it?

Could you post a DXDIAG file for each? Also, when you're in DX11 mode, what are your graphics settings for the terrain?

Here's the DXdiag for the tablet. Laptop is not nearby. Perhaps I can get that one later.

Oh... I have played with the graphics extensively re: the pea soup thing. Right now (tablet) terrain settings are all low. Texture detail is high.

Here is the other DXdiag...

The second one is actually...I think it's a bit below the minimum requirements.
But what is worse: 3 years old graphics drivers. Please install the latest ATI legacy drivers (this one) and try again.
No idea though where the problem with the first is.

I'll try it.

The bottom line is, it's been working just fine until last night when steam pushed out the update. And it works in DX10/11 mode, just with the jumping gray boxes. DX9 mode had been working great. In fact, the jumping gray boxes weren't an issue until the update either...

So, I'm a bit dubious of ducking behind the inadequate hardware claim... I may have to back the graphics way, way down, but it does run.

OK. The driver seems to have made the gray box problem tolerable (only happens once briefly and then is gone) on the laptop in DX10/11 mode.

Pea soup on the tablet, however, is persistent.

And it doesn't explain why it's crashing in DX9 mode.

Thanks for the help so far. Never trust Dell to maintain an accurate driver database.

OK. I take back the tolerable thing. I checked the gray box thing at the last post and that does seem to be a bit better, but now the system doesn't seem to be able to switch between units anymore... at least the current unit part at the bottom left. It seems to be controlling the unit I asked for (or next one in the chain) but the action buttons and unit description never change...

So, I'm back to not being able to play the game after the patch.

OK. I rescind my taking back of the tolerable thing. After some more futzing, I found that the recently updated graphics driver (laptop) had reset the adapter to "battery saving" mode even when plugged in. After putting the stupid thing back in performance mode, I can now play (on the laptop) in DX10/11 mode with no problems (after an initial turn of brief jumping gray boxes).

So. I'll consider that a "limp home" kind of thing until someone can figure out why Civ5 doesn't like my tablet. So hopefully they either fix the DX9 mode so it works again, or tell me why I get pea soup in DX10/11 and Win 8 mode.

Sigh.

Maybe these will help. This is from the tablet. No textures on normal terrain, just a base color.