RTW Alexander: missing graphics

[Draigh]

Hello all,

A while ago I decided to reinstall RTW and its expansions again for nostalgia purposes. As I'd never really given much attention to the Alexander campaign I decided to give it a shot. Unfortunately some graphical issues are preventing me from enjoying the game very much.

Meet the headless horsemen:

https://img337.imageshack.us/img337/4937/rometwalx20100904125822.png

That's right, Alexander is leading a ghost army, can't be too hard to conquer the world with that. And it's not just his bodyguard either, check out these Hypaspists:

https://a.imageshack.us/img844/7373/rometwalx20100904125839.png

At first I guessed I had made a corrupt install so I uninstalled and reinstalled, to no avail. Playing around with the graphical options I found out that turning off the unit shaders removed most of the problem, although the units now look horrible and the problem still isn't completely fixed, simple soldiers are rendered correctly but special units, like flagbearers and generals are still invisible.

https://a.imageshack.us/img265/1488/rometwalx20100904125919.png


Now I have to admit that I have a pretty sucky integrated video card, an ATI Radeon Xpress 1150, but what is quite startling is that I have no problem running vanilla RTW and BI without any problem. I do remember that the first time I installed Rome Total Realism I had a similar problem, but if I recall correctly that was due to installing it over the wrong version of RTW. This time I did the following:

- Install RTW

- Patch to 1.3

- Install BI

- Patch to 1.6

- Install Alexander

Which I believe to be the correct order.



Would anyone have another idea on how to fix this?

[Motep]

I am having similar issues with rome gold.

[Rarity]

This problem happends when your Graphics are low. Try to make the "Unit Detail" at "Medium" or "high", and see how it's work.

[Motep]

......

come to think of it, I think my graphics are on low....

[Draigh]

This problem happends when your Graphics are low. Try to make the "Unit Detail" at "Medium" or "high", and see how it's work.

Those screenshots were taking with "high" in the first two and "medium" (with disabled shaders) in the second one.

[Motep]

I decided to check mine. graphics were on medium, and the units only collapse when the detail is not on lowest.

[Ratwar]

This would appear to be a graphics driver issue. I'd see if updating the driver helps (or if you have the latest driver, try rolling back to an older one).