Talk about Black Sea...

**Dooz** · 01-21-2005, 10:18

This ever happened to anyone? In the campaign map, everything starts off innocent enough... I play one battle, then when I'm back to the campaign map, all the water is black and there's no water textures. Anyone know how to cure this black plague of the sea?

**Dooz** · 01-22-2005, 22:17

Anyone...? Please?...

**Mikeus Caesar** · 01-22-2005, 22:22

Hmm....have you tried changing your specs? That might help. If not, then i don't have a clue what to do. On a side to all these bugs, i've noticed that there are more and more posts about bugs and problems, instead of fun things about the game.

**Dooz** · 01-22-2005, 22:29

Well I'd change specs but everytime I start up the game, everything's normal. After I have a battle on the battle map, then return to campaign map, is when it changes to black.

**Hortensius** · 01-23-2005, 01:15

Take your stevie wonder glasses off!!!

**MoROmeTe** · 01-23-2005, 02:28

I've had an issue where after a battle the entire strat map went black, only showing setlements, armies and agents. Pretty unplayable. At first I used to do a save/load to fix it, then my little brother (yo, BOgdan!) discovered that simple alt-TAB would bring the strat map back to normal. Try it... I still don't know if it is the hardware or the modified map from RTR 4.1

**MulusMariae** · 01-24-2005, 20:36

Greetings, All --
I wanted to point out a couple of things about this sort of problem in case it might help others: I have seen the problem occasionally, but with LAND, not sea. In any case, the map background has gone to black with various of the other objects showing in front after returning from the battle map.

In *MY* case, I had attempted to upgrade my video card driver to the latest and greatest from Nvidia. Bad idea, as it turned out. The latest version showed the strategic map as kind of a bright "overexposed" washed-out unreadable display. I never did find a way to make it work. I stepped backwards (about a year?) and grabbed an older Nvidia driver which eliminated the "overexposed" version, but seems to have introduced the occasional "black background" problem. I can't recall the version numbers and I'm not currently in front of that computer, so I can't inform/warn of specific versions. [Note: this is with a machine that just barely runs the game: Compaq 1GHz Athlon with cheap 32MB Nvidia MMX 400] Bottom line in case others are wrestling with either "overexposed" or "black background":

You may want to experiment with video card driver versions. But be warned... the Latest may not be the Greatest.

Cheers!