blackened campaign map

[lanky_yankee]

hi guys new member here,fist post

i have been playing rome tw for some time now and my campaign map is really dark.my units look fine but the terrain is all shadowed and its really annoying. i have just installed the patch V 1.2 and this has made the problem even worse now i can hardly even see my cities.my system req are fine so i don't understand whats going on???? if anyone has any advice it would be great cheers

Lanky_yankee

[PseRamesses]

It could be a number of things but first try and uninstall RTW and manually deleting all remainding files. It could also be a bad DL of the patch so you might wanna re-dl it. Since the game obiously worked well in vanilla and the prob occured after installing the patch this is the most obvious solution I can think of. Good luck!

[phillydilly]

Hey, i had the same problem on my laptop, just turn off the fog of war and you should be fine.

I think you can do it in game, but if you go into the preferences file you can change fog of war to false and that should fix it.

[vale]

same thing, but that only happen when i press ctrl+A to be able to come back to my desktop screen and then click on the icon to get back.

[mayor_haggar]

A suggestion:

www.omegadrivers.net. I cured my black campaign map by replacing my stock Radeon IGP 345m driver with the Omega Radeon driver.

A word of warning:

The Omega drivers are not (I don't think) supported by any of the graphics card manufacturers... so before even thinking of installing a third-party graphics driver make sure you know what you're doing, back up everything of any value, create a restore point and dig out your (soon to expire) warranty. Oh, and follow any instructions to the letter!

I wasn't going to post this for fear of reprisals should it knacker your machine, but I know how annoying the black campaign map is!

Just don't blame me if it destroys your PC, OK? I did warn you! ;-)

Good luck finding a solution - phillydilly's workaround should certainly work if you don't mind being able to see the AI's moves.