Missing lots of terrain

[benjyweller1991]

I installed the game without trouble, then opened my first game. Here is what came up: in the top right corner is the advisors toolbar. Underneath there are some trees, a nice little river and the sea. Pleasant. At the bootom are all the toolbars and buttons that should be there. Top left is the gold. But the rest of the main game screen is black. I switched on the resources and it came up, but still no terrain. My unit is standing in the middle of it, so it is explored. Others have spoken of a similar problem, and the soliution has been a better graphics card. But since mine shows some terrain, this can't be the problem, can it?

 

[benjyweller1991]

if you want to see a screenshot, i could email it to you.

 

[MrCynical]

But since mine shows some terrain, this can't be the problem, can it?

This can be, and indeed is, the same problem. This is the standard black terrain bug, where the 'overlays' i.e. trees rivers, resources etc work OK, but the tiles they're on don't display. This is usually due to the graphics card not being able to cope.

If you haven't patched the game to 1.52 then do it. This fixes black terrain in some cases (mostly the weaker graphics cards) since it includes a set of lower res textures. If that doesn't work there isn't a fix beyond a new graphics card (what is your graphics card by the way?).

 

[benjyweller1991]

Thanks for the help, the patch fixed it. My graphics card is a rubbishy Intel 82845G/GL