I've searched all the forums and have seen only one other person post about this.
On my galaxy map planets have been replaced by rings of white. Starbases, ships, resources and anomolies all show up as tiny white icons instead of being displayed using pretty graphics.
I have a 7800GT with the newest drivers with 2GB system RAM. I've been using the newest 1.0X patch ever since I bought the game.
The funny thing is, everything USED to show up fine until one day it just decided to stop working. I didn't install anything new, change any settings or do anything differently, just one day, I loaded up the game and poof, all my pretty graphics were gone. Someone suggested in a reply to the other person's post to switch his Region setting in Windows XP Control Panel to english (US). Mine is already set to that. I have even tried setting it to another language and back to US. I have also tried completely uninstalling the game and reinstalling it. I don't have any of the "disable" checkboxes checked in the Video options screen. This is getting pretty frustrating.
Can someone help?