Dr. Funkshadow
Chieftain
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- Jun 18, 2007
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I tried looking around to see if anyone else had his problem, but I didn't find anything.
Today I was playing as the Dutch on a regular custom game, hemispheres, varied continents, random islands, 6 continents, and about 12 civs. However, I noticed all throughout the game, that every time a pop-up of some sort came up, my graphics settings were changed. I have the game set to max graphics (and in case you're wondering, yes, my computer can handle it just fine, and yes, the game does run well... my computer isn't... or shouldn't be the cause of the problem), and my anti-aliasing is set to 4. But every time something pops up, like a diplomacy window, random event, etc., my anti-aliasing is turned off. All the edges go jagged as if I didn't have anti-aliasing on. So every time something pops up, I gotta go to the graphics menu, and reset my anti-aliasing settings. It's annoying. I know, I can just deal with the jagged edges and stuff, but I shouldn't have to, if my computer can run it on max settings.
Another, even more serious problem stemming from this, is that after say, 15 - 20 times of this happening (diplomacy/random event window popping up, anti-aliasing reset, going into the graphics menu and resetting it), if a window pops up, then the game freezes for about 20 seconds, only the music playing, then the screen goes black and an error comes up saying the graphics device stopped responding or something along those lines (I can't remember exactly what it said). Basically then my entire computer is screwed up, the colors are totally messed, the screen is all stretched out of proportion, and I'm basically forced to restart to get my computer working again.
Windows says this problem is a "stop error". Now it's obviously BTS that's causing it, because I play tons of PC games daily on really high graphics settings and I haven't had a single problem. But with BTS, it seems every time I tried to play this particular round, the pop-up windows would mess with the graphics settings, and after enough messing with it, totally screw the entire computer up. It happened about 3 times today.
Quite an annoying problem. Maybe someone could shed some light on this? This never happened with vanilla or Warlords; I could run them perfectly on max settings and never once had my graphics simply reset from a diplomacy window or what have you. Now I have no idea how you could recreate this, since this isn't really a simple gameplay glitch that can be saved. It just happens. So I doubt anyone can really tell me what's wrong specifically. But I figured I might as well mention it... maybe someone'll be able to pinpoint the problem.
I should also mention I played a game of BTS the day I got it, as the Byzantines. I'm trying to remember whether this happened then as well... as far as I know, I don't think it did. Or if it did, I didn't really notice it. Maybe this problem is specific only to that particular game I was playing as the Dutch? I don't really see why, but it could possibly be. The Byzantine game was played on continents, and the Dutch game was played on hemispheres. Might be because of the hemisphere map script. I'll have to experiment with it a bit, I suppose. But I guess this means I'll either have to live with the crappy graphics to finish my Dutch game, or just give it up all together (ah well... I wasn't doing that great anyway
)
Today I was playing as the Dutch on a regular custom game, hemispheres, varied continents, random islands, 6 continents, and about 12 civs. However, I noticed all throughout the game, that every time a pop-up of some sort came up, my graphics settings were changed. I have the game set to max graphics (and in case you're wondering, yes, my computer can handle it just fine, and yes, the game does run well... my computer isn't... or shouldn't be the cause of the problem), and my anti-aliasing is set to 4. But every time something pops up, like a diplomacy window, random event, etc., my anti-aliasing is turned off. All the edges go jagged as if I didn't have anti-aliasing on. So every time something pops up, I gotta go to the graphics menu, and reset my anti-aliasing settings. It's annoying. I know, I can just deal with the jagged edges and stuff, but I shouldn't have to, if my computer can run it on max settings.
Another, even more serious problem stemming from this, is that after say, 15 - 20 times of this happening (diplomacy/random event window popping up, anti-aliasing reset, going into the graphics menu and resetting it), if a window pops up, then the game freezes for about 20 seconds, only the music playing, then the screen goes black and an error comes up saying the graphics device stopped responding or something along those lines (I can't remember exactly what it said). Basically then my entire computer is screwed up, the colors are totally messed, the screen is all stretched out of proportion, and I'm basically forced to restart to get my computer working again.
Windows says this problem is a "stop error". Now it's obviously BTS that's causing it, because I play tons of PC games daily on really high graphics settings and I haven't had a single problem. But with BTS, it seems every time I tried to play this particular round, the pop-up windows would mess with the graphics settings, and after enough messing with it, totally screw the entire computer up. It happened about 3 times today.
Quite an annoying problem. Maybe someone could shed some light on this? This never happened with vanilla or Warlords; I could run them perfectly on max settings and never once had my graphics simply reset from a diplomacy window or what have you. Now I have no idea how you could recreate this, since this isn't really a simple gameplay glitch that can be saved. It just happens. So I doubt anyone can really tell me what's wrong specifically. But I figured I might as well mention it... maybe someone'll be able to pinpoint the problem.
I should also mention I played a game of BTS the day I got it, as the Byzantines. I'm trying to remember whether this happened then as well... as far as I know, I don't think it did. Or if it did, I didn't really notice it. Maybe this problem is specific only to that particular game I was playing as the Dutch? I don't really see why, but it could possibly be. The Byzantine game was played on continents, and the Dutch game was played on hemispheres. Might be because of the hemisphere map script. I'll have to experiment with it a bit, I suppose. But I guess this means I'll either have to live with the crappy graphics to finish my Dutch game, or just give it up all together (ah well... I wasn't doing that great anyway
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