amirsan
King of all Kings
Also, which interface is your motherboard? Does it have a AGP, PCI or PCI Express slot?
Terrain is Dark
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amirsan
King of all Kings
scloopy said:
hmm, both, ok, have any idea what speed exactly?
amirsan
King of all Kings
Anyways, here is a search I did:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...0&MaxPrice=250&SubCategory=48&Submit=Property
Those are all the results for cards that have Direct X 9 support and are between your pricerange. You can narrow down the search ALOT if you specify which interface your motherboard has and you will use. Then after that its all a matter of chosing either ATI/Nvidia and a manufacturer. Wittle down your choices. Now you have 80 cards to chose from, wittle it down by interface, then continue to do so, and when you have like 5 cards you are interested in, do research, check if they have all the necessary requirements, research about the manufacturer.
Good luck, and be sure to tell us which card you chose!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...0&MaxPrice=250&SubCategory=48&Submit=Property
Those are all the results for cards that have Direct X 9 support and are between your pricerange. You can narrow down the search ALOT if you specify which interface your motherboard has and you will use. Then after that its all a matter of chosing either ATI/Nvidia and a manufacturer. Wittle down your choices. Now you have 80 cards to chose from, wittle it down by interface, then continue to do so, and when you have like 5 cards you are interested in, do research, check if they have all the necessary requirements, research about the manufacturer.
Good luck, and be sure to tell us which card you chose!
amirsan
King of all Kings
scloopy said:
Nope. Hey, if you can find out the model number and all that stuff for your MOTHERBOARD maybe we can search it on the net and find its specifications.
seamus75
Warlord
Okay...
- had the black terrain
- had the cheshire cat leaderheads
- upgraded the graphics card to one suggested on this site by comraddict
- very excited to find that that solved my aforementioned problems
Now, however, I am very disappointed to see a whole new list of problems - some of which I can honestly say did not exist before the upgrade.
- very slow camera scroll & since the game autocenters on everything it becomes quite irratating after awhile
- jerky cursor movement (wasn't happening before)
- cannot pan right (have to use the right arrow key or click on the mini-map to maove eastward)
- floating units
- intro song & movie still choppy
I checked the new upgrade against the srtest.com recs and now I pass each individual criteria, but I still fail overall (however this time it doesn't tell me why). If I wasn't guaranteed that my husband would kill me for wasting over $120.00 (game & upgrades) I'd throw this much anticipated DISAPPOINTMENT in the trash!
CONGRATULATIONS FIRAXIS! - you have produced a very beautiful disaster!
- had the black terrain
- had the cheshire cat leaderheads
- upgraded the graphics card to one suggested on this site by comraddict
- very excited to find that that solved my aforementioned problems
Now, however, I am very disappointed to see a whole new list of problems - some of which I can honestly say did not exist before the upgrade.
- very slow camera scroll & since the game autocenters on everything it becomes quite irratating after awhile
- jerky cursor movement (wasn't happening before)
- cannot pan right (have to use the right arrow key or click on the mini-map to maove eastward)
- floating units
- intro song & movie still choppy
I checked the new upgrade against the srtest.com recs and now I pass each individual criteria, but I still fail overall (however this time it doesn't tell me why). If I wasn't guaranteed that my husband would kill me for wasting over $120.00 (game & upgrades) I'd throw this much anticipated DISAPPOINTMENT in the trash!
CONGRATULATIONS FIRAXIS! - you have produced a very beautiful disaster!
richie46894
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you are right , but hey if ur a true civ fan u will wait untill they come out with that patch and calm down and support them instead of trashing them its not there fault really , and its part of the process of making a pc game , so keep working hard crew and please release it a.s.a.p cuz i really wanna play it
Omnicronwarrior
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I have figured out why the reveal all map workaround doesn't work for some people. When you change file, you are only giving the tech "mysticism" the ability to reveal the whole map, which gets rid of the buggy FOW. To make it work you have 4 choices:
1. Be a civ that starts with Mysticism.
2. Be pataint until you research mysticism.
3. Cheat and just give yourself the tech on the world editor
4. Mod the files so all the starting techs, not just mysticism reveal the map.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, reread this thread.
1. Be a civ that starts with Mysticism.
2. Be pataint until you research mysticism.
3. Cheat and just give yourself the tech on the world editor
4. Mod the files so all the starting techs, not just mysticism reveal the map.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, reread this thread.
defrag1971
Chieftain
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defrag1971
Chieftain
My Spec:
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AMD 1800
nVidia TNT2 Ultra/32 Mb
512 Mb Ram
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* I can't see terrain and sea (black)
* I can see units, items and cities, but the flags and city names are transparent.
* Chesire faces
None of your suggested fixes worked...
This is the first game it hasn't worked in my PC, and oddly is a strategy game!
Very disappointed, I wasted 39.00, can't believe a patch solves the problem. Couldn't Fireaxis make a 16 bit graphic mode as an option to reduce system requirements ??!
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AMD 1800
nVidia TNT2 Ultra/32 Mb
512 Mb Ram
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* I can't see terrain and sea (black)
* I can see units, items and cities, but the flags and city names are transparent.
* Chesire faces
None of your suggested fixes worked...
This is the first game it hasn't worked in my PC, and oddly is a strategy game!
Very disappointed, I wasted 39.00, can't believe a patch solves the problem. Couldn't Fireaxis make a 16 bit graphic mode as an option to reduce system requirements ??!
I have one of those cards that people say the game should just flat out not work on, Intel 8xx on my laptop which is now just over a year old. I had black terrain and cheshire faces as well. The game runs fine however and you do not need to get a new graphics card. Simply go into the world editor at the beginning of each game and reveal all tiles. I think this is a pretty reasonable work around and to me it's not worth getting a new graphics card or computer to fix. I really don't care about cheshire faces or even what is surely below average graphics quality; the game is about strategy, not graphics. All that having been said, I hope Firaxis fixes this. I e-mailed them and got no response. They seem eerily silent about this which seems to be a MAJOR bug in their program. The one thing that I wonder about is multiplayer. Will it even be possible for me who relies on the world editor to play properly in single player?
amirsan
King of all Kings
Seems Soren Johnson is answering some questions in this thread:
http://www.quartertothree.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22334
I haven't read the whole thing, if someone finds some revealing information, cite it here.
http://www.quartertothree.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22334
I haven't read the whole thing, if someone finds some revealing information, cite it here.
GenericKen
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Throwing my hat into the ring. Put my stats in my sig.
Haven't really worked at fixing it much, other than playing around with drivers. A couple of drivers I messed with would keep the game from initializing at all, so I'd prefer to stop messing with them for now.
The worldbuilder workaround works okay, but it's hardly ideal. One thing I noticed, however, is that the water draws very strangely. I can't really describe it, except that it's sort of clipping like the Rome TW demo did for my comp.
Can't say if I have any of the performance bugs yet, as I haven't really played with the game yet.
*was going to get a new computer anyway*
Haven't really worked at fixing it much, other than playing around with drivers. A couple of drivers I messed with would keep the game from initializing at all, so I'd prefer to stop messing with them for now.
The worldbuilder workaround works okay, but it's hardly ideal. One thing I noticed, however, is that the water draws very strangely. I can't really describe it, except that it's sort of clipping like the Rome TW demo did for my comp.
Can't say if I have any of the performance bugs yet, as I haven't really played with the game yet.
*was going to get a new computer anyway*
X sheehan C
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how much should i spend on a video card?
amirsan
King of all Kings
X sheehan C said:
How much do you want to spend on a video card? I haven't read too much on the benchmarks lately, along with the reports of good cards having problems aswell, but I would assume that you should not spend less then $100-150. Dont take my word for it 100%, do your research, learn about your motherboard and its requirements and go from there.
