Missing Unit Icons

[Carazycool]

Often, units are missing their icons. I can't determine any rhyme or reason for why certain units are missing their icons. It can be my own units or opponents' units. This is problematic because it makes it easy to not notice a single unit that doesn't have an icon. This can make me leave my units in a place that I shouldn't. It also makes me unable to determine which civ a unit belongs to and what the unit's health is.

Has anyone else had this problem?

 

[Brimstone]

I just posted this in another thread. I'm so happy you have the same issue, I was afraid it was just me. For me, when the unit takes damage, it disappears.

Yikes, 21 pages. No, I didn't read them all, just skipped around, but I didn't see anyone post my issue. I did this in another thread but its dead.

I have slow initial loading. The movie used to end when the old guys eyes shift to the door as his son walks in. I don't know where it would be now, cause if I hit escape, I get the new pictures. But wow, like a solid minute or more longer loading time. I thought the whole point of the pics was to speed up loading. Anyway, lots of performance issues listed here, so I'll move on.

Here is the important part. When a unit takes damage, the icon (big round icon of the unit as well as damage indicator) above that unit disappears. The icon doesn't come back until the unit is fully healed, and THEN moves.

It makes finding units hard, and it is really easy to miss damage enemy units, unless you play all zoomed up. What worse is it not easy to tell which units are yours and which are his in a big melee.

I didn't see anyone else mention this, but I also didn't plow through 21 pages. I fear its just me

 

[Carazycool]

Hey Brimstone,

This has happened to me to a small degree for quite a while but it seems much more pronounced in the game I am playing now. I hadn't played in a few months. Maybe a recent patch made it worse?

Glad to hear I am not the only one having this problem. Anyone else?

 

[Necrotaur]

I think I had a similar, possibly related problem. An enemy civ had embarked a land unit next to one of their cities, but it didn't have an icon and could still be bombed, but not die.

 

[Largio]

Yeah I have exactly the same problem that Brimstone described. Extremely frustrating!
I have to move my mouse cursor above every unit/tile to check whether there is an unit, what type of an unit and how much health it has left. Never had this problem before the recent patch.

Tried some simple steam/game option changes but didn't help. Any idea for a solution or do we have to wait for a hotfix/patch?

 

[Camikaze]

AFAIK this is a known issue, but it would helpful if you could attach a save and screenshot.

 

[Largio]

Ok, here's a screenshot and the save. Actually when i loaded this game all the icons were showing but after bombarding units with my frigates both the AI units and my frigates lost their icons.

 

[Camikaze]

Oh wow...haven't seen it that bad before.

 

[Carazycool]

yeah, it's quite bad. Not sure if posting another screen shot or save would help any, but i basically am trying to just get used to playing without relying on icons.

 

[kcd_swede]

I do not have G&K yet, but I get this same issue (icons disappear for damaged units) in Vanilla 5, ever since the patch that came with the release of G&K.

Worst of all, I cannot see how damaged my own units are, so it is impossible to know whether to use an instant-heal or take a promotion.

 

[Largio]

I think my issue was only with the particular game from which I posted the screenshot/save. At least after installing G&K and playing it about 10 hours (new games) I haven't encountered a single missing icon.

Should probably be noted that the game where I had this problem was a GOTM. Also other people seemed to have similar problems with this game (TSG38).

 

[IonTichy]

It is really annoying, as it robs me of crucial overview:
unit icons vanish all the times, along with the health bars

Seems to be an early-Civ-5 bug which has resurfaced.
(prolly some queue somewhere in the code that doesn't get reinitialized or cleared)

 

[The_J]

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[Brimstone]

This is really becoming annoying. I have all DLC. I've used the steam tools to check everything, and all it does is reset my game settings (graphics etc...). I've attached a screen shot from this morning. It's all games I play, this one just happens to have a lot of ships, but it's ALL units that take or give damage (the MG is missing it's icon). By moving the unit, the icon comes back, but that's often not possible.

Guess how many of those units are enemies....

 

[The_J]

DxDiag anyone?

 

[Brimstone]

Dxdiag. I didn't see anything unusual.

 

[The_J]

Right, but it seems there are in general some problems with the latest round of graphics cards .
Well, I guess the devs are already working on a solution (since Cam said it was known), and this might help too .

 

[bcaiko]

In my games, this seems to happen most often when a civilian unit is stacked under another unit.

 

[Brimstone]

I also forgot to add that Civ 5 had been running fine up until the patch that came out right before G&K. That patch introduced the missing icon bug to me. I was hoping G&K would fix it but it did not.

So, whatever was in the patch before G&K did it to me.

 

[Ribannah]

I have a similar problem, where the icon of an enemy unit appears on the next tile instead of where it stands.