Blurry Icons and Crashes

[brainpan]

My 023 game doesn't work right anymore. Some of the city build and promotion icons appear blurry, and the game tends to crash if I go into f3 to change civics.

I have rebooted and tried starting new games, but that doesn't seem to improve the situation. Does anyone have a suggestion for a quick fix? What did I do to my poor game?

 

[SwordofStriker]

Was your 0.23c version working properly to begin with? Did you try modding anything yourself that may have caused this?

 

[Pandemonis]

Also, have you tried the most popular puter-solution, reinstalling the whole mod ?

 

[brainpan]

I have played about a brazillion successful 0.23c games, and haven't modded it myself. I also haven't tried to reinstall the whole mess again. I guess I'll start there. Thanks.

 

[brainpan]

I just tried loading up .022 and even .021 first, getting blurry icons again.

 

[seZereth]

sounds like a graphics card issue?
if reinstalling civ and ffh doesnt help, try to explain what you did before it went wrong

 

[Kael]

I just tried loading up .022 and even .021 first, getting blurry icons again.

See if it only occurs at certain resolutions.

 

[blueparrot1966]

from the dates on this thread, looks like this blurry icon thing hasn't been a problem for a long time, but I'm getting it again, now.

I'm playing what I think is the latest and greatest FFH. This seems to be a specific, intentional thing, not a bug. Some of the city build icons have a "frosted glass" look, and others do not. It's consistent from city to city, turn to turn, and reload to reload. I'm playing as Khazad, and using civics I've used before, frequently, such as Consumption and Arete.

This has no effect (that I can tell) on functionality, and it's only a minor annoyance, but it makes me very curious. What's going on? This doesn't seem like a bug, but like something intentional. I just can't figure out what, or why.

Thanks in advance for any clarification or advice.

 

[Vehem]

from the dates on this thread, looks like this blurry icon thing hasn't been a problem for a long time, but I'm getting it again, now.

I'm playing what I think is the latest and greatest FFH. This seems to be a specific, intentional thing, not a bug. Some of the city build icons have a "frosted glass" look, and others do not. It's consistent from city to city, turn to turn, and reload to reload. I'm playing as Khazad, and using civics I've used before, frequently, such as Consumption and Arete.

This has no effect (that I can tell) on functionality, and it's only a minor annoyance, but it makes me very curious. What's going on? This doesn't seem like a bug, but like something intentional. I just can't figure out what, or why.

Thanks in advance for any clarification or advice.

Can you post a screenshot? "Frosted Glass" sounds vaguely like it's on buttons that are currently disabled ("Greyed out") - but seeing them might be helpful...

 

[Kael]

Blurry icons usually comes from buttons that are saved with mipmaps on. Mipmaps regenerate graphics at different resolutions so that you arent trying to veiw the whole texture when it really shrunk down. Thats really cool for unit models (so that when your zoomed out the game doesnt have to draw the full texture) but really bad for buttons (because you arent getting the real pic, you are getting the mipmap engines lower resolution version, which looks blurry).

A long time ago i went through and removed mipmaps from the buttons so we should have this problem anymore. But if you still see it send a screenshot as Vehem suggested and we will see if this is your problem or if something else is going on.

 

[hegemonkhan]

i have no idea if this is the case or any help, but could it be because of the new patch that is out for civ4 and u upgraded to it, but the ffh2 .23 isn't compatible with it ?

(i just tried to play my civ4 and was shocked-surprised to find a new patch for it, but for some reason it wouldn't download the patch again from the game menu update option. i had this happen before. some kinda setting is blocking it. but i don't know what to do or whatever. the first time i had it taken in to a comp place and they fixed-changed the setting. fortunately, there's no new patch for bts yet. if i could find the patch as a file on the internet. i can down load that fine. it's just for some reason the auto-download from the game menu option of updating or going on the internet-gamespy mp connection method is blocked from downloading)