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[Bug/Graphics] Various glitches

September 18, 2009 5:04:21 PM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

I am having a bunch of graphical glitches in windowed and full display mode:

  • cloth map artifacts (striping, tiling, obscuring, etc.)
  • Missing figure pedestal
  • Missing city graphics in world view and city editing mode

My laptop's specs are:
Windows XP SP3
MacBook Pro: 2GB RAM
Mobility Radeon X1600: DirectX 9.0c, ATI Catalyst 09.3

 

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lobosan
lobosan
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Reply #1 September 18, 2009 5:53:00 PM
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The following glitches also happen on my desktop machine (Vista 64bit, I7, GeForce GTX 275) when reloading a saved game. Restarting Elemental and starting a new game makes all glitches go away.

  • Missing figure pedestal
  • Missing city graphics in world view and city editing mode
  • Missing goodies graphics

I guess only the cloth map artifacts (striping, tiling, obscuring, etc.) may be due to a driver/graphics card related bug.

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scottrycroft
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Reply #2 September 18, 2009 7:25:35 PM
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This is exactly my issue here. 

The work around is to reduce the mipmap levels to 1. Also, post your debug.err file to pastebin.com and link to it, as per the sticky on guidelines.

The missing graphics look an awful lot like the loading game issues (see this). Are you loading a saved game at all?

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Reply #3 September 19, 2009 6:45:05 AM
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Thanks scottrycroft - setting the mipmap levels to 1 removed the cloth-map artifacts!

One tile did flip to an 'undiscovered' look on my town for one round but otherwise it's all pretty. Off course, the game loading issues remain but that could be just a missing feature.

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Reply #4 September 25, 2009 12:41:26 PM
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Yay! The first Elemental beta patch appears to have fixed the cloth map glitches.

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