Shogun back-banner conundrum

[Stevie D]

Hello

During battles, the little individual 'back-banners' each soldier has randomly change colour so that they often - no, usually - switch to display the colour of the opposing team. This problem does not effect the unit flag or the honour banners, per se, which are better behaved.

This means Uesugi soldiers fighting Shimazu can sometimes have green banners and vice versa with blue for the Shim. Argh.

I played a battle involving an AI ally as well as an AI opponent just now, and the back-banners couldn't make their minds up which colour to be

I find this extremely irritating. It goes beyond the mere aesthetic and can screw up how the battle seems to be panning out.

I imagine this bug is covered in a patch somewhere, but have not seen it mentioned before. I've got STW: MI, which is patched up to 1.02 version.

Please help, honourable Shogun wise-types

Utz *gong crash* http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/shogunshame.gif

[TosaInu]

Hello Stevie D,

Frustrating. I guess that the problem is with your videocard hardware-software.

A newer driver can improve one game and make the other worse. I've experienced that a lot myself. My most recent experience was with a NVidia driver which split my screen in two when playing STW. Just installing a different one solved it.

The problem can be directX, the videodriver or a setting.
I'm afraid you have to try some drivers yourself. But we can give some pointers if you tell which hardware and software you use.

[Stevie D]

Quote[/b] (TosaInu @ July 11 2004,06:20)]Hello Stevie D,

Frustrating. I guess that the problem is with your videocard hardware-software.

A newer driver can improve one game and make the other worse. I've experienced that a lot myself. My most recent experience was with a NVidia driver which split my screen in two when playing STW. Just installing a different one solved it.

The problem can be directX, the videodriver or a setting.
I'm afraid you have to try some drivers yourself. But we can give some pointers if you tell which hardware and software you use.
Thanks for taking the time to reply, TosaInu.

I don't think it can be the video card. I changed it only a few days ago when the old one died. I experienced the exact same problems (and lack of others) running STW under that older one, too.

A few pointers about my set up:

Windows 98 second edition (don't trust later versions)
AMD-K6 3D Processor (500 MHz)
128 RAM
GLoria Synergy video card

Err... how do I find out which version of Direct X I'm using?... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-oops.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Like I say - thanks for your help. I always appreciate it when someone on the web takes the time. :)

[Stevie D]

Just downloaded the latest version of DirectX (9.0b)

Unfortunately, that hasn't solved the problem... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif

[barocca]

the GLoria Synergy
is that the 8MB one?

you need a video card with 32MB ram

i had exact same trauma with S3 8MB, and SIS 8MB,
as soon as i got a 16MB vid card my flashing back-banner trauma's went away, but occaisionally the wrong banners would still be displayed in the "battle cards" down the bottom of screeen,

but when i got a 32MB card that went away too.

B.

[Stevie D]

Quote[/b] ][...] you need a video card with 32MB ram [...]
I think you may have hit on it, Barocca. Thanks.

Incidentally, there's a tick-box option in the video settings that allows you to switch off some 8-bit graphical something or other. Once I do that, I don't have the back-banner problem, although the soldiers' graphics don't look so well defined.