Black Terrain

[Alphawolf]

If there is already a thread that addresses this I apologize I was unable to find it with search.

I put the game on my laptop and it starts fine and you can continue to the next turn with out problem how ever you can't see any terrain. Everything on the map is black. I know I started near an ocean since I can see the waves 'crashing' however I can't see either the beach or the ocean. The units are perfectly visible over the blackness. Also you can't see leaders. I started as FDR and could only see his glasses float over the background.

I know very little about computers so I ask for your patients when explaining anything.
-the Wolf

 

[bio_hazard]

Sounds like a graphics card issue. Either your graphics card does not support T&L, or it does but the driver is in conflict. Look around the forum for lists of cards that work and ones that don't.

MANY people are having this problem.

 

[crazypooljunkie]

The best thing to try is going into the world builder, you can access that in the menu, and select the reveal entire map option. If that works then there is an XML file that you can modify but I don't remember which one it is somebody else might be able to help you with that though. Also I've heard rumor of a patch on the way, its possible that issue might be addressed in the patch but I doubt it, still it may be worth doing the fix manually each game before you try and modify the XML final until that patch comes out.

 

[Alphawolf]

As I said I know little about computer, how do I find out what graphics card it has.
-the Wolf

 

[Hamlyn]

Hi Alphawolf

According to this thread, there is a solution out there that might work.

I have exactly the same problem so I'm going to give this a go. I am no expert but it appears I meet the minimum requirements (as do others with this problem) - I'll report back and any other input or advice from forum members would be greatly appreciated.

 

[bio_hazard]

I don't have a pc in front of me and I'm a mac guy, so this advice is probably too vague to be helpful, but I think you need to:

go to "My Computer",

and somwhere on the left there should be a link that says "system information" or "system configuration" or something like that.

Once you click on that there should be a tab thingy that says Hardware, and once that tab is active, there will be a button for Device Manager or something similar.

The video card is called "Display adaptor" I think. if you click on that it will tell you what kind of card you have.

Note- this is on Windows XP Home, so I don't know how it would be diifferent on another operating system. Hope this is somewhat helpful.

Also, in one or more of the help threads there is a command-line method that will tell you ALL of your computers specifications- useful if you might have CPU or RAM memory limitations as well...