BTS and mods showing lots of...Pink..?

[Klaerth]

Whenever I load up BTS or any mods for it, the screen will flash fully pink for a second after getting past intro videos. Once I load up or start a game, the entirely /world/ is pink except for units/cities/etc. If I zoom out all the way to viewing the world, everything is fine...but if I try and zoom in at all, the world goes fully pink once more.

I'm not sure why this is occurring...this is from a recent reinstall of the game. My computer is more than equipped to handle it - I'm using a Geforce 8800 GTS G92, have the latest drivers, and so on. About half a year ago, on a previous install, I ran BTS quite fine. What might be causing all this pink that makes the game unplayable? ;;

I happen to be running Vista 32, as well. =>

Edit: I just checked, and I can run vanilla Civ4 fine. It seems as if the problem is specific to BtS.

 

[ori]

is BtS patched to date?
could you post your dxdiag results file please?

 

[Klaerth]

It is patched to 3.19, yes. => And here is the file!

 

[ori]

just a general observation: your graphics card is eating up a lot of your 3GB of RAM - 1.2GM of shared memory means that that is not available for other programs - or - more likely a lot of the memory eating processes on your graphics engine are not done on the RAM memory but on the much slower swap (i.e. hard drive) memory. This might account for some problems if you have any other programs running in the background.

now: if you reduce the graphics settings in the game does this help at all?
did you try older drivers yet?

 

[Klaerth]

I have not rolled back drivers, no - rather, I experienced the problem with some 4 month old drivers, updated to these, and still experience the problem. I hadn't noticed the memory usage with the GPU before, and that /does/ seem odd...I can try reducing settings, though I imagine that shan't account for much.

...Settings reduced, and indeed it makes no difference. =>

 

[ori]

could you post a screenshot?
also: open the civilizationIV.ini in my games\beyond the sword
and set all items with log in their name from 0 to 1 - then start the game - recreate the problem (start at least a play now or custom game, i.e. go through one map creation) - close the game and post all items in my games\beyond the sword\logs as a zip file attachment please.

 

[Klaerth]

Here's the .zip, with the logs and two screenshots included within it. One screenshot is of when zoomed in closely, another is when zoomed out (and when the game seems alright).

 

[ori]

ok the good news: it has nothing to do with your graphics card.
the bad news: it tries to load the art files for the background stuff and fails with every single one of them
did you change anything recently?
is the game running with administrator rights?

 

[Klaerth]

It is running with administrator rights, yes. Could it potentially be an issue with the installation?

 

[Klaerth]

I'm considering just trying to reinstall...it shouldn't take too long.

 

[Klaerth]

Reinstalling appeared to work! Things run just fine now. => Thankee for your assistance in tracking down the problem, as odd as it ended up being.

 

[GVBN]

just a general observation: your graphics card is eating up a lot of your 3GB of RAM - 1.2GM of shared memory means that that is not available for other programs

No it isn't. In Vista/Win7 "shared memory" means memory available to both the video card and the rest of the system