The Official ETW Hardware Problem Solving Thread

[Wardo]

Hey guys, since version 1.0 of the game I've been experiencing this "glitch" when returning to the campaign map from a battle pretty often but not always. It seems mostly random, whatever the factions involved, region of the map, result of the battle, etc., sometimes it just happens, sometimes it doesn't.

Basically I go into battle, whether started by me or engaged by the AI, then I either win or loose, and sometimes when I return to the campaign map after the battle is done this is how my map turns out:



The water is black everywhere, characters and buildings have disappeared except for their floors. I can select cities and build normally, but moving units is difficult. What I did when I had this for the first time was save the game and return to main menu, then I loaded the saved game and it fixed the problem. So I can fix it easily by saving and returning to the main menu then loading the game.

I have SSAO turned off, the rest turned on more or less detailed. I have an NVidia 8800 GTS with the 182.06 drivers, a quad-core CPU and 3gb of RAM.

Any ideas?

[Babblearossa]

I have SSAO turned off, the rest turned on more or less detailed. I have an NVidia 8800 GTS with the 182.06 drivers, a quad-core CPU and 3gb of RAM.

I get that with some versions of nvidia drivers ( and have 8800 gts, quad, 4 gb ), I don't have it with 182.50 drivers.

Also, it might have come and gone with turning on some of the check boxes at the bottom of the graphics option screen but I don't recall now. I do know it came back with some beta drivers I tested then went away when I switched back to 182.50.