Ludicrous
Chieftain
Hi,
I've loaded up Beyond the Sword for the first time today after playing Vanilla seamlessly for the last two years!
On a sidenote, firstly I'd like to thank people for all of the feedback and support they've been giving others that I've been going over and getting all of the answers I've needed to get the game up and running; the information about issues regarding downloading patches really, really helped!
Okay.
I've loaded up the old Civilization IV (patch 1.74) and this problem does not exist there, it's only with BTS (before and after I patched it to 3.19).
I think the best way to describe this is through uploading screenshots, so forgive the bad description. I changed the skin on BTS to the 'vanilla' Civ IV main menus so that I could compare the two very easily.
When you load up the game, the main menu that has the options for 'Single Player, Multiplayer' etc. are inside a blue box. In my error that I'm describing, this blue box is missing or transparent, and the text stands alone.
Then when you move into, for example, custom games the problem gets a lot worse as any box is now transparent, leaving only text on the whole screen, which makes it almost impossible to click boxes to change game options or anything as the boxes are transparent/missing
When you launch the game, the problem then esculates as all the boxes are again transparent, but the toggle options above the mini-map are again not visible, but are still there as when you hover the mouse icon across them the options appear and you can click the buttons.
I'm *hoping* I don't get embarrassed and I'm being exposed to having an underspecced system, but I'm very confident that this isn't the issue.
So far I've only tried to reinstall the game once and re-patch and search these forums vigourously for a solution!
Hoping someone can help me a little, despite my poor description!
Thanks in advance!
I've loaded up Beyond the Sword for the first time today after playing Vanilla seamlessly for the last two years!
On a sidenote, firstly I'd like to thank people for all of the feedback and support they've been giving others that I've been going over and getting all of the answers I've needed to get the game up and running; the information about issues regarding downloading patches really, really helped!
Okay.
I've loaded up the old Civilization IV (patch 1.74) and this problem does not exist there, it's only with BTS (before and after I patched it to 3.19).
I think the best way to describe this is through uploading screenshots, so forgive the bad description. I changed the skin on BTS to the 'vanilla' Civ IV main menus so that I could compare the two very easily.
When you load up the game, the main menu that has the options for 'Single Player, Multiplayer' etc. are inside a blue box. In my error that I'm describing, this blue box is missing or transparent, and the text stands alone.
Then when you move into, for example, custom games the problem gets a lot worse as any box is now transparent, leaving only text on the whole screen, which makes it almost impossible to click boxes to change game options or anything as the boxes are transparent/missing
When you launch the game, the problem then esculates as all the boxes are again transparent, but the toggle options above the mini-map are again not visible, but are still there as when you hover the mouse icon across them the options appear and you can click the buttons.
I'm *hoping* I don't get embarrassed and I'm being exposed to having an underspecced system, but I'm very confident that this isn't the issue.
So far I've only tried to reinstall the game once and re-patch and search these forums vigourously for a solution!
Hoping someone can help me a little, despite my poor description!
Thanks in advance!
!
