Weird blury thing

[antisocialmunky]

Ick, it look like a problem with 3D texture sizes. Have you tinkered with your video card driver's setting to try and fix it? You could reinstall it. Its weird that its periodic like that. Another program may be messing with your driver settings or they could be corrupt.

Can you post your computer specs and your video card's driver name and number?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Yeah, I had that happen with my monitor too when I was using a different CPU last year. I updated drivers and never could fix it. Sorry I couldn't bring more promising info to the thread.

[Warlord 11]

Ick, it look like a problem with 3D texture sizes. Have you tinkered with your video card driver's setting to try and fix it? You could reinstall it. Its weird that its periodic like that. Another program may be messing with your driver settings or they could be corrupt.

Can you post your computer specs and your video card's driver name and number?

I didn't touch my video card, yet. Actually I am afraid I will mess things up more, as I don't really know what I am doing. If you could tell me exactly how, it would help a lot.

As for my specs: how do I find 'em? I found my video card: a "Radeon X300 SE 128MB hypermemory" and a "Radeon X300 SE 128MB hypermemory secondary" but I can't seem to find the rest.

I feel really dumb when it comes to this stuff as I have no idea what I am doing. But I really want to see the beauty of EB again! Thank you very much for your help!

[hoom]

Hypermemory is the most likely culprit.
You have a laptop, right?
Secondary = if you plugged in a seperate monitor, it plugs into the secondary interface.

Hypermemory uses main system memory to boost the total available to these low end graphics cards, but main system memory is slow and the CPU probably gets priority on its use.

So what I would expect to be happening here is that the game wants xMB of ram for the graphics plus yMB of ram for the game itself plus Windows & other programs running want zMB ram for itself but x+y+z are a bigger number than the total available and the graphics drivers sacrifice some of its section at the expense of your visuals.

Suggest checking the driver settings in the ATI driver control panel.
Also possibly there is a setting in the BIOS where you can dedicate more ram to the graphics?
Also see if it makes any difference what other programs are running in the background (less other programs should = better graphics)

[antisocialmunky]

I'm agreeing with hoom for the time being. Hyper memory is just a cheap way to have bigger numbers on the box...

I'd ask on a forum like www.hardforum.com or in the tech. help forum on this site to get more responses.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

It happened on my Dell desktop pretty much right out of the box. It was a new pretty nice one 9 months ago also. The screen was one of those flat ones though.

[hoom]

The screen itself has nothing to do with that.
Its the graphics card not putting out full quality textures.
Question is why though.

[Casuir]

Look like its using mipmaps, most likely its run out of texture memory as hoom pointed out. I had a similar problem though in my case it was disappearing textures, I got rid of it by resizing the textures for the new cities. Dunno how you'd get rid of it if its occouring in the stock game, there may be an option in your bios to increase video memory, try that.

[Warlord 11]

Hypermemory is the most likely culprit.
You have a laptop, right?

Nope, actually. The video card came with the computer.

Suggest checking the driver settings in the ATI driver control panel.

How exactly do I do that?

Also possibly there is a setting in the BIOS where you can dedicate more ram to the graphics?

I tried but couldn't find a setting that does this.

I'm agreeing with hoom for the time being. Hyper memory is just a cheap way to have bigger numbers on the box...

I'd ask on a forum like www.hardforum.com or in the tech. help forum on this site to get more responses.

I made a thread here: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=82802

It happened on my Dell desktop pretty much right out of the box. It was a new pretty nice one 9 months ago also. The screen was one of those flat ones though.

Me too...

[Boyar Son]

Oh your just experiencing what would happen if your graphic settings are low.

Thats all

OMG! Warlord 11 that was my graphic card (is your computer dell?) but how did get your graphics to take aways the blur?? I spent just about 2 years out of the whole time I had the game with that type of graphics.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

One other thing, I remember that at times, it was much much worse than others. Often it was not so bad right when I'd start off (but sometimes it was from the start) and it would get a lot worse. Sometimes it was just awful, and even the skins of the strat map units were just unrecognizable and they were just a mess. But it's exactly the problem Warlord has posted images of. For sure.

[LordCurlyton]

Reading things like this just makes me more glad I have a solid, if dated (3.5 years and counting), computer. Nice 2.7 GHz P4, GeForce Ti 4200 (512 Mb I believe), 17" flat screen. Can run EB on Large Battle size and with almost all graphics at highest with no problem, at least until the memory leak starts eating its way thru my memory (I am WELL acquainted with the buzzing sound when the memory allocated to running my wireless connection gets eaten, or some other similarly important background function). The other apps, they try and fight, but the RTW memory leak is just too strong for them.

[antisocialmunky]

Oh your just experiencing what would happen if your graphic settings are low.

Thats all

OMG! Warlord 11 that was my graphic card (is your computer dell?) but how did get your graphics to take aways the blur?? I spent just about 2 years out of the whole time I had the game with that type of graphics.

He said that it went away and then came back...

Warlord, if you don't know how to turn off the integrated graphics, oyu might want to shut down all the programs running in the background like antivirus and firewall(if you're disconnected from the internet of course). That may give you enough ram to make it look nice.

[hoom]

The video card came with the computer.

Oh dear. Hypermemory (& the Nvidia equivalent) is bottom of the low end cheap graphic cards.
I thought it was only used by integrated/laptop graphics