1.52 "white eyes" in diplomacy screen

[illram]

This is a minor graphics error I began encountering with 1.09 and 1.52. (Not in the original.) The eyes and sometimes the eyelids of the leaders in the diplomacy screens appear white. Off the top of my head, Asoka's eyes are completely white, and the eyelids of Caesar, Elizabeth, Hauyna Capac, Mansa Musa, and some others appear white, giving them a very wierd creepy look. Kind of wierd, not really a big deal and surprisingly on my machine (toshiba laptop with intel 915G shared 128MB graphics) the only problem I have encounterd other than sluggish performance unless the map is zoomed in real far. Not so sure how much this occurs, obviously not very much if this wasn't fixed from 1.09. The wonder movies and beginning movies all finally work for me in 1.52.

 

[Bob1475]

I want to confirm that I have the same experience. Very creepy look and it did start with 1.09.

 

[jkp1187]

I was getting the same problem with 1.09. Washington had it, too, as did one (and only one) of Ghengis Khan's eyes. It seems to have stopped (knock on wood!) with 1.52.

 

[Pounder]

I was getting the same problem with 1.09. Washington had it, too, as did one (and only one) of Ghengis Khan's eyes. It seems to have stopped (knock on wood!) with 1.52.

I had exactly that on 1.09 as well, but is gone with 1.52.

Now I get eyes and teeth in front of the face for about a second when the the leaderhead first comes up, but is fine and is animated great after that first second. I have only seen this happen with a few of the leaders: Tokugawa, Elizabeth, Montezuma and Kublai Khan. The rest of the leaders seem to be fine.

 

[MetHimPikeHoses]

I had that in both patches with low settings (what I usually use), though not on the higher graphics settings. Leaderheads are very slow on hi-gfx, so I do not use...

 

[eric_]

Hrm. Intro and wonder videos got better for me (especially wonder videos) with 1.09, but then got worse with 1.52. Weird. I also upgraded my video card...so maybe that's somehow causing decreased video performance? Wouldn't make much sense, but you never know.

I upgraded from an nVidia GeForce2 MX to an nVidia GeForce MX 4000

 

[Danielos]

Maybe your computers are infected with some kind of ghost?

 

[MxxPwr]

This is a minor graphics error I began encountering with 1.09 and 1.52. (Not in the original.) The eyes and sometimes the eyelids of the leaders in the diplomacy screens appear white. Off the top of my head, Asoka's eyes are completely white, and the eyelids of Caesar, Elizabeth, Hauyna Capac, Mansa Musa, and some others appear white, giving them a very wierd creepy look. Kind of wierd, not really a big deal and surprisingly on my machine (toshiba laptop with intel 915G shared 128MB graphics) the only problem I have encounterd other than sluggish performance unless the map is zoomed in real far. Not so sure how much this occurs, obviously not very much if this wasn't fixed from 1.09. The wonder movies and beginning movies all finally work for me in 1.52.

The 'white eyelids' might have something to do with a graphics option called 'use low-res textures' that seems to have been checked since 1.09 came out. When I unchecked this box (graphics settings in the main menu), the white eyelids disappeared and some blurry icons did as well. I had to uncheck it again when 1.52 was installed. It seems to be checked automatically whenever you set the global graphics settings to low.

frank

 

[Pounder]

My settings have always been set to high.

 

[playshogi]

Unlike others, I experienced the problem first in 1.52, but not in 1.09! I have a MX 420 Nvidia card, which can still see floodplain in the fog as of 1.52.

 

[BeefontheBone]

I saw this effect (there's already at least one thread about it, btw) and the floodplain thing (much more of a problem, since it's a potential exploit...) on my Dad's PC, which is not far over minimum specs and was on low gfx settings.