Civ colors flicker (to blue?)

[Krayzeenbk]

When at the normal map view, I sometimes see my units flicker from their civ-specific color to some other color (blue I believe, but I cannot tell for sure - this happens for very brief periods of time). This seems to happen particularly often when closing the city screen, and also when closing various advisors.

I am running Windows XP service pack 1 on 2.6 GHz processor with hyperthreading. I meet the DirectX requirement and run relatively recent OpenGL libraries (though I don't think that the problem is in any of that).

Has anyone else had a similar problem?



An unrelated problem is the absence of civ-specific color on the Domestic Advisor screen on the turn a game has been loaded (the units there are usually red).

 

[explodin dog]

something to this effect has happened to me before, except it was regarding cultural borders and in an earlier version of ptw.. actually, i think it was in 1.29 of original civ 3. i thought perhaps it might have to do with either too many civs (nah) or too many civs with the same culutral border colors.. i dunno really.. i have also had this happen in the same version with units, if i recall correctly. no clue, honestly.

 

[Chieftess]

What video card are you using?

 

[Quasar1011]

I had a "blue flash" recently, but thought nothing of it til I saw your thread.

 

[CKS]

I often have a problem with units turning blue or red instead of their civ-specific colors. I think they turn red or blue depending on whether they are offensive or defensive units, and the color shift lasts a _long_ time. Restarting or rebooting didn't necessarily fix it, but it would eventually go away. When I set up to play the GOTM, I got these nice colored circles around units, and these colored circles don't change color to red or blue, so I no longer care about the problem.

I'm running ME and PTW 1.27, and I have no clue what my video card is (and that computer isn't here, so I can't check).