Graphics bug

[Tuvok694]

My system: Vista Home Premium 64bit, Nvidia Geforce 9600GT with the latest Nvidia driver.
Some icons in the game appear somehow "scrambled". The attachment shows an example (city screen upper right corner where you can set the focus for production, food etc; sorry it's the german version).
I've had this problem before and after the patch 62, and it appears not in every game but once it is there I cannot get rid of it until I restart the whole program.
Now I wonder: Do other users have this problem too or is my system causing the effect?

 

[Tuvok694]

Hmm, no answers since October. Am I really the only one who experiences these problems?

I was hoping for improvements in the latest patch, but the problems that I described above are still there.

And there are more problems: Sometimes when I reload a game, the region around my capital is a total "graphics chaos" (see attached screenshot from yesterday's game). Even after restarting steam and Civ5 three times, I cannot continue playing because the graphics are a mess.

Is there anything I can do to stop this (change some graphics options maybe)?

 

[Petek]

Sorry that no one replied to your original post. Since you don't see this problem every game, perhaps your graphics card is having a problem. Try reseating it in its slot. If it has its own fan, make sure the fan is spinning and it isn't clogged with dust. If that doesn't help, change all your video options to the lowest settings. If that fixes the problem, then gradually increase the settings until you find the optimal point. Please post again if none of these suggestions work.

 

[The_J]

Oh, had not seen that thread previously.
Grey world + garbled text is always an issue with the graphics card, which might not be able to handle the workload.
According to this list your card is below the minimum requirements, which is probably the cause for this.
Try updating your drivers, setting everything to low and start in windowed mode and pray , nothing else can be done besides buying a new graphics card.

 

[Zyxpsilon]

I also have such a "Lower-End" card NV-9600GT and i don't get any of these similar artifacts.
Texturing options are all at Medium settings and the OS is Win7HP.
The only strange stuff i've been experiencing with it is some dragged off (but partial items only) layers from previously rendered regions of a map when i move the cursor around "too fast". Terrain tiles are somehow slow to render too upon starting a game, but that's understandable since it's a two step layering routine.

-- It could be a slowly failing GPU from overheat - possibly fan clug indeed.
-- Or any other system related issues such as driver mismatch with Vista - don't be fooled by the recommended latest driver installation trick from NVidia (or anybody else, btw)... sometimes it's just the opposite reaction.
-- Also, 512MBs memory on the card is an almost minimal figure... check if yours has 256 only. In which case, right there might be another processing conflict probability.

 

[gruven]

I see this occasionally. I have a 9800GT. Usually it seems to happen when I play several days in a row without rebooting. A reboot always fixes it for me.