0.8 Purple & Yellow Loading Screen Problem (preferences.txt)

[Hyborian]

Hello guys...I just downloaded the 0.8 EB and I am so sad to inform u that I met some serious problems and I was wondering if u could help me...After installing it I run it.From the start menu the low third of the screen was distorted and purple .Actually in the disotorted area there were multiple visions of the start menu in a purple hazy background...Unfortunately my English are not the best so I hope u understand what I try to say..Ok I thought that this would be the problem only in the menu so I continued making my choices..To my bitter disapointment the same problem continued in the game too...The lower third was distorted with little copies of what there was going on the screen....

Do u have any idea of what may be wrong??Is it possible that the problem is that I have the RTW GOld edition???Or that I didnt restart my pc after installing EB?(I will try that now:)...
Thanx in advance



10 minutes later...Nothing to do with the restart and unfortunately the problem spread to the vanilla RTW....

[Foot]

I would recommend deleting RTW and reinstalling from the beginning. Once you have RTW with the 1.5 patch. Play a game in vanilla and see if the same problem occurs there. If it works, then I would download EB 0.8 again (just in case it was a problem with the download) and install it again.

We have never had this problem before, which suggests something wrong with your setup. This way we can discover at which point it lies.

Foot

[Djurre]

same problem. Menu is prettymuch all covered up in weird yellow bars and stuff,

upon startup the screen is half-covered in purple static.

edit: Ok, decided to uninstall everything and try to preset the graphical options to a high resolution and such. maybe that will help.
However, not now, as i am agitated and the 0.8 uninstall is slower than the pentium 2 that runs on XP ive got gathering dust somehwere in this house.

[Foot]

couple of other ideas.

Go to the directory you installed EB into and go to eb/data/ and delete the folder called "loading_screen".

Or right-click on the shortcut to EB and open the properties window. On the target line, you should see the following: "-nm -show_err -mod:eb" at the end of the line. Try deleting the -nm part of that and start up the game.

Or right-click on the shortcut to EB and open the properties window. On the target line add the following to the end: -ne

This will open EB in a window (if your desktop is bigger than the resolution size you play the game at and might solve the problem.

Try these options only after you have tried uninstalling and reinstalling everything, and seeing if vanilla works properly.

Foot

[Bava]

same problem. Menu is prettymuch all covered up in weird yellow bars and stuff

ditto.

going to try your fix, Foot.

Oh, in a custom battle i got this:

Failed to find texture eb/data/models_unit/textures/units_barb_infantry_dacia.tga

[Foot]

Oh, in a custom battle i got this:

Failed to find texture eb/data/models_unit/textures/units_barb_infantry_dacia.tga

This occurs when it cannot find a texture line in the dmb, can you be more specific with the units and the factions involved - that would be really helpful. I had hoped we had got all these, but apparently not.

Foot