Any idea what corrupted my views?

[rasnell]

I reached August and September of 1862 in a full April campaign and my map, ledger and battle report views have become corrupted.

In some turns, the map is garbled. In other turns, the ledger is completely unreadable. The screenshot shows how garbled the battle report is.

Any idea what the cause is or how to fix this? I really want to keep playing this first-ever campaign to see how the rookie general here has done. It was just getting very interesting with victory points and cities controlled almost equal at this early September 1862 point of the war.

By the way, how am I doing to be in a near-tie at this point (especially as a first-time rookie)?

Please help me salvage this game and figure out why the screens aren't refreshing or redrawing correctly. Anything I can change in my option settings?

Is it because the manual and Adobe Reader are in the alt+tab background?

[rasnell]

Here's the screenshot of the battle "view"

[marecone]

I have only 512 MB of Ram and an old computer. When turn processes I am online or checking documents, so I guess this is not what is causing your problem.
I would say virus perhaps. Did you check for that?

As for how are you doing -I think ok. I am just playing the same campaign and still have a turn or two to 1862. Also play as Union.
So far I am kickin her hard.

Few tips for April scenario. Just get as many cities you can. Every indian one, Tuscon, Dallas... This will get you more points.


Godspeed

[LAVA]

Here's the screenshot of the battle "view"

I've had this also, yesterday I believe... and I have 2 gigs of ram.

I then exited and patched it to the most recent available. Haven't seen it today... but the problem isn't ram.

Ray (aka LAVA)

[rasnell]

I've got a gig of ram and also using the newest patch. It's almost like there's some sort of a re-draw problem. Sometimes it works fine and the views are clear. Then sometimes it's just the map and not the ledger, and then vice versa.

If I can't figure it out, I'll consider this game file corrupted and have to start over. Rats. I really liked how far I got.

No virus. Diligently scanned at all times.

Hoping Pocus will have some thoughts of what to try differently in the settings.

[rasnell]

Just like any techie problem, I quit the game, restarted my PC, reopened the game and everything is fine again.

Still wondering if Pocus can figure out a cause.

[LAVA]

Okay...

This happened to me again tonight.

It occurred when, at full zoom out, I rapidly panned from Cinncinati to Louisville, Ky. The date was late Feb. 1862. In this case the video of the map west of Louisville became corrupted. I panned back to Cinncinati, where the video was good, then returned back to the west, and the corruption continued.

I then exited the game.

Ray (aka LAVA)

[tc237]

Could this be heat related?
An overheating video card or CPU?

[Pocus]

Either a video issue or an overheat problem. The quickfix is to reboot your PC, the problem should go away, except if this is because of overheat. Try to monitor the temperature (of your main board and video card). Can it happens when you just start to play or is it after a long session?

Be sure to update to the latest driver in this is the first case. I can't provide you much more tips here, as depending of the hardware you will have this problem or not. I routinely run the AI against itself overnight, and at morning I have generally a finished game at the ready, without any issues for example.

I can inspect your DxDiag if you want more details also.

[rasnell]

Everything working fine since restart...too busy commanding troops to follow Pocus' tips...must get Grant to Corinth...more worried about supply lines than hard drive overheat, video cards.