Anyone else having intermittent problems with mouseover windows not appearing? The secondary mouseover popups that describe Wonders, Units, and Buildings when the "build completed" menu pops up; the description of Techs when the "Reasearch Complete" menu pops up; and in the diplomacy screen, the attitude summary popup when hovering over the leader's face-- all of these will suddenly quit working for several minutes. Then, again without any indication why, they will start working again. Additionally, this popup failure coincides with the mouse wheel no longer scrolling. I have a basic ten dollar MS optical scroll mouse-- nothing special there. AMD64 3300+, 1GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce FX5700 video, WinXp-- nothing odd there either. I'm going to try a different mouse and driver just for the heck of it. Anyone else run into this?
Mouse-over popups intermittently work
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Colonel Kraken
Deity
Yes, many people have this problem, including me. 
I've also come across mouseover's disappearing while your still reading the text.
As an example, when setting up a new game. If you put the mouse over the settler radio button and leave it there, the mouseover window appears and while your reading it, it disappears. Nice! You have to roll off and roll back onto the button.
As an example, when setting up a new game. If you put the mouse over the settler radio button and leave it there, the mouseover window appears and while your reading it, it disappears. Nice! You have to roll off and roll back onto the button.
LoneWolf5050
Warlord
bohica said:
Yeah, I've seen that in different places. When hovering on techs in diplomacy, I think that happens there too. Very annoying since you can't read the whole details in time! But I have not had all popups just stop working.
I have had it so that I have to move the mouse out and back again a few times to trigger a popup, but that's probably just a case of bad timing; it can be hard to trigger popups once in a while in any app.
--Julian
meowsqueak
Chieftain
There also seem to be some missing tooltips in the tech tree (science advisor) screen - some of the icons don't pop up anything.
ZombieEater
Chieftain
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When I'm trying to look at a pop-up of something located near the bottom of the screen, I often get the desired pop-up at first, but after half a second it switches to the pop-up about the terrain tile underneath of what I'm trying to look at.
This even happens if I'm inside a menu box at the bottom center.
Moving the mouse off and on the icon fixes it. Still, quite annoying!
This even happens if I'm inside a menu box at the bottom center.
Moving the mouse off and on the icon fixes it. Still, quite annoying!
rd_syringe
Chieftain
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The disappearing tooltip thing is quite annoying, and I have yet to have them come back (maybe I didn't wait long enough, but I waited several turns). Going to the options and disable/reenabling tooltips doesn't work. If anyone finds a temp solution to bring them back while we wait for a patch, please post it!
Moff Jerjerrod
Deity
Another annoying thing about the rollover help displays is that whenever you try to rollover an item in the bottom banner window you get popup help for the terrain tiles that are underneath the window.
It's a shame so much thought went into the game yet still there are many interface issues with this game that are so obvious that they shouldn't have been there in the first place.
It's a shame so much thought went into the game yet still there are many interface issues with this game that are so obvious that they shouldn't have been there in the first place.
