1.52 Watermills not displayed properly

Salarakas

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(Apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere, I searched a bit and couldn't find anything)

I decided to give the game a new try now that the 1.52 patch seemed to have made it somewhat playable. I started the earth scenario as Rome on noble and noticed how easily the praetorians whoop everybody's bum in the early game.

Anyway, now I get to build watermills which I found handy the first time I tested the game. The problem is, it seems that sometimes they are not diplayed properly. That is, there doesn't seem to be any watermill in the squares where they are built. Most of the watermills in my current game are there but at least a couple aren't. In my previous game I had similar problems too but instead of not showing at all they were placed on tiles that were not even next to any river or on hill tiles and so on. Some tiles seemed to have both a watermill and a farm on them. Kind of confusing...

Here are two screenshots and a savegame if it helps (if I managed to attach the files here!). In the first shot there is a watermill right of the city. In the second one there are two watermills north of the city but only one is shown.

Edit: added a screenshot from the next turn (watermillbug3.JPG). The tile on which the worker stands has no improvements. The watermill is one tile south.
 

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I have seen this too. Build a watermill and the building for it shows up in the tile on the other side of the river. That happened under 1.09. So it is not something new to the 1.52 patch. I am working on my first 1.52 game and have not built any watermills (and probably won't this game)
 
Having played some more and taking a closer look at this bug I don't understand it at all. Sometimes a tile that has a watermill but no road has the bug but when you build a (rail)road the bug disappears. Then when you check the same tile later the watermill is gone again. E.g. the watermills on the second pic were fine when I checked a while after posting the pic but now they have both(!) disappeared again. One hill tile north of some watermill had the watermill inside it, surrounded by a mine. Makes tweaking the cities a real PITA.

I have Ati Radeon 9600xt with 4.12 drivers. Yes I know the drivers are a year old but when I got the game in November (I think) and had 5.11 drivers I experienced an extremely annoying problem in which my computer did a hard reboot after I loaded a save and clicked on a unit. People recommended the 4.12 drivers so I installed them and haven't had the reboot problem anymore.
 
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