Help! Having problems with my corrupt graphic file

[Gregnapril]

Ok here the problem, all the grass in the game and the oceans are showing up as black. I can see trees, jungles, rivers, people but it appears that my grass and oceans file has been corrupted or something. Does anyone know what file that is located in? Also if someone could post this file thats not corrupt that I could just upload the file to my system to correct. I just downloaded the new patch and it did not fix it. Also the bars over the cities showing how many people in that city is got lines through its kinda goof up. I be happy if I could just see grass its kinda funny trying to play with a solid black screen. Looks like all my cities are floating I turn on the bar showing how much food and such is on each titles and I scroll out to find places I've not explored. Kinda amusing to play this way but it makes the game very hard

So I need
1.So come tell me which file is and how to located it.
2.And send me a new file to replace it. GregnAprilPruett@hotmail.com
Thanks guys

 

[Velvet-Glove]

If you believe a corrupt file is to blame, why don't you try re-installing the game from the CD/DVD? To be honest, I don't know if anyone has identified all the game files or would know which one (if any) is directly responsible for the display of grass and/or ocean.

It's eqally possible you have a technical problem with your graphics card and it's capabilities. If it's old it may not be up to the job. If it's new-ish then it could be a driver issue. There are several threads in this forum about blackened terrain - a quick search might lead you to a possible solution.

What graphics card do you have and have you tried an updated, or different, driver?

 

[Gregnapril]

Yeah I read some of the stuff on the black terrian probablems and I did reinstalled and I tried all 3 patches and my computer is only a year old and I never had problems with its drivers. I was hoping that I was just the bitmap and I could ajust it. Which is usally easy with games but I could not find this one.

 

[Velvet-Glove]

Another thought - have you installed any mods e.g. the Blue Marble terrain? It could be some incompaitibility or corrupt file at work. If you do have any mods then don't forget that a simple re-install is not enough to clear up these third party files - you need to manually remove all folders in both the game directory and under My Documents in order to do a really clean re-install.

 

[crunch]

Right. After a clean reinstall, patch the game to 1.61 (the patch is cumulative, no need to install previous ones). If this won't help, in a game, enter worldbuilder and reveal entire map. This will ruin the fun of exploration, but you can play. If even the reveal map trick won't work, sounds like you're in trouble. Post your system specs, CPU, RAM, graphics.

Also, general solution is to update your graphics drivers and reinstall directX.

 

[Gregnapril]

I atcually found the file giving me problems but is a pcx file If I was goning to find something to open it. my thoughts where even if it is my grahpic card I would just change the file to something less detail and customize one I find something that allow me to edit pcx files all the ones I've found so far you got to pay to use. might try a torrent for one

 

[Gregnapril]

it don't make sense though that I can see everything in the game other then the grass

 

[Velvet-Glove]

I'm puzzled, I can't find any .pcx files in my game folders. What's the name of it - I'll have a look at mine here if I can and see if it looks OK.

Do you have any mods installed at all?

At a pinch you could maybe just create a plain geen .pcx file yourself for free (or be creative and add some darker green speckling to remove the monotony, lol!). It would have to be the same dimensions as the original of course but with luck it might just work.

 

[Zanmato]

All the terrain files are DDS (grassdetail.dds) files. You can edit PCX files in Paint or Gimp, both are free. Gimp can also modify the DDS file, http://modiki.apolyton.net/index.php?title=How_To_Modify_DDS_Files. Why you have a PCX file in there in the first place is strange as I don't have any PCX files in any of the Civ4 directories at all. PCX is now a fairly old file format for images, commonly used in fax machines these days.