RTW Graphics Help!!!

[Darkvicer98]

In RTW, i've changed my graphics to after clicking the 'auto-detect best graphics button' then i changd the graphics to speed and did a few custom bits in that. But my graphics have gone like your watching a video of RTW on youtube. The Detail has gone,the roads,grass,walls,buildings etc. I could show you what i mean but i don't know how to take a picture of the game whilst in gameplay,I understand you use the print screen button then go into paint but what from there? Can anyone help?

Edit:If i uninstall RTW and reinstall it will it delete my saved games?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Might I suggest that, if you haven't tried it already, that you attempt to up the graphics settings to their original levels. This may revert it to how it was previously.

To take a screenshot you have, as you have stated, to press the "Print Screen" key. This creates a file containing the shot image.

The screenshot is then stored in "[path to your R:TW directory]/tgas". Typically this is either "C:/Program Files/Activision/Rome - Total War/tgas" if you have standard R:TW (not Gold) and in "C:/Program Files/The Creative Assembly/Rome - Total War/tgas" if you do have Gold.

The files are stored in here are in .tga format. This file format is sadly incompatible with the standard imaging tools which come with Windows. To open them/upload them you need to convert them to a format usable by Windows (.bmp, .jpg, .pgn, .gif e.c.t) using a program such as Irfanview.

After that, you can then upload the screenshot to Photobucket or ImageShack with ease.

If you wish to attempt a re-install, you can rescue your saved games manually.

Saved games are stored in "[path to your R:TW directory]/saves". Typically this is either "C:/Program Files/Activision/Rome - Total War/saves" if you have standard R:TW (not Gold) and in "C:/Program Files/The Creative Assembly/Rome - Total War/saves" if you do have Gold.

Once you have access into this directory, select all of the files in the area, right click and select to "cut" or "copy" them.

After that, navigate to an area out with the R:TW directory to paste them into (usually your "Documents" folder is a good choice). You can do this by right clicking and then selecting to "paste" in the selected area.

After that, you can re-install R:TW.

After the process is complete, just drop the files back in the directory where you found them.

Hope this is useful

[Darkvicer98]

Thanks,Omanes Alexandrapolites. May Zeus rain glory upon you.

[Darkvicer98]

Where is the saves file exactly?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

All of the saves files are contained in there with file names the same as what you saved them as - it's not one file, it's an assortment of several.

[Darkvicer98]

But where is the file?

[Raz]

Let's start from the beginning. OK?
So, what exactly do you mean that the detail has "gone"? When you play a custom battle for example, you see very bad looking troops, right? And blurry trees and rocks, right?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Might I suggest updating your graphics card drives. If your card is a Nvidia card, you can find such drivers here. If it's an ATi card, you can find the relevant drivers here.

Hope this works, good luck

[Darkvicer98]

Let's start from the beginning. OK?
So, what exactly do you mean that the detail has "gone"? When you play a custom battle for example, you see very bad looking troops, right? And blurry trees and rocks, right?

If i put my mouse over my enemy's troops the info bar in blurred,buildings aren't good,trees are bad,troops are slightly blurred etc

[Raz]

That sounds more like a graphics card problem, OR it could be your screen resolution. Try updating your driver as stated by Omanes, or if that doesn't work, set the screen resolution (in RTW's video options) to a higher setting and to a 32 bit depth. E.g. 1280x1024 for a 17" standard (not widescreen) monitor, or 1024x768 for a 15" etc. Set it to it's highest resolution possible.

[Darkvicer98]

I've heard from someone that its the graphic file on the disc that seems to be the problem,not the computer or graphics card. Because when i uninstalled it and reinstalled it RTW still had the same graphics. The graphics before i clicked the auto-detect best graphics for my computer button which is when the battle graphics went weird. I've played RTW for months and this only happened last week.

[Raz]

I doubt that, the game doesn't read graphics from the disc, rather, it reads it straight from your harddrive... I am not saying that it isn't possible but I still strongly recommend that you update your driver.

Really, other than that, I don't have much of an idea.