Major Graphics Problem in Warlords

[jsonitsac]

Today I was playing Warlords version 2.13 and all things were going well until the screen started doing something funky. All of a sudden my map looked as if I had just taken an acid trip with psychedelic colors randomly appearing all over the map. If I zoomed out they would go away, but when I zoomed back in they came back and were much worse than before.

I am using an iMac 2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo running OS X.4.11. I don't know if this is significant but I was playing on a huge map on marathon game speed. Also, today I just got an update from Apple for things like QuickTime and security.

This is really strange and I have no idea why it happens it is seemingly random. Sorry if this question has been posted before.

 

[AlanH]

Yes, it's an old problem. Players report that save, quit and relaunch often solves it for a while, but if you are in a late game on a huge map with lots going on then you may simply be over-stretching the graphics. I don't know whether Leopard would make any difference, but you should certainly ensure that you have the latest updates for your OS.

 

[dutchking]

I'd had the same problem when playing on an iMac, it never happened to me on my macbook though. I think its an ATI Graphics card issue, don't think Leopard will help with much. Its easier just to save and restart the game.

 

[Sovetskysoyuz]

On my iMac, at least, exit-to-main-menu and reload also gets rid of it, which I imagine takes less time that quit-and-relaunch. It is a very amusing bug, though; once I had "Ragnar" written on the ocean, stretched to fill the whole screen.