Town Problem

thunderbolt · Unread postby **thunderbolt** » 02 Oct 2006, 18:51

My castles all seem to be a black shadow. I get little sparkly bits (like around the pixie tree thing) and the buildings are highlighted when i mouse-over, but i dont actually see anything. Nothing at all like the screenshots, just a silhouette. What is wrong with it?

thunderbolt · Unread postby **thunderbolt** » 03 Oct 2006, 16:37

It's occured to me that you may not have understood the message. So here is a screenshot of the sylvan castle i see:

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vhilhu · Unread postby **vhilhu** » 03 Oct 2006, 16:51

textures are missing or in wrongplace, did you download h5(eg by bittorrent) or buy it legally?

thunderbolt · Unread postby **thunderbolt** » 03 Oct 2006, 17:10

I bought it legally, but it crashed every time i started a new game. So i googled help (apparantly it happened to a lot of people) and a "corrected version" was said to fix it, so i downloaded it.

thunderbolt · Unread postby **thunderbolt** » 04 Oct 2006, 19:16

Okay, well i uninstalled the game completely, put on the three patches, but the castles still won't show up! Where should the textures be held? I went through all the folders but i didnt see anything.

Metathron · Unread postby **Metathron** » 04 Oct 2006, 20:48

I suggest you contact Ubi/Nival directly. After all, they should feel obliged to aid their customers.

jerseys · Unread postby **jerseys** » 05 Oct 2006, 00:24

To em it looks like a generic video card problem. Try installing the newest drivers.

DigitalMocking · Unread postby **DigitalMocking** » 05 Oct 2006, 00:27

thunderbolt wrote:Okay, well i uninstalled the game completely, put on the three patches, but the castles still won't show up! Where should the textures be held? I went through all the folders but i didnt see anything.

The textures are there, and loaded, your video card isn't displaying them properly.

What video card do you have, what version of the drivers? What OS?

thunderbolt · Unread postby **thunderbolt** » 05 Oct 2006, 15:29

Windows XP
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX400
Driver version: 9.1.4.7

Naskoni · Unread postby **Naskoni** » 05 Oct 2006, 21:00

thunderbolt wrote:Windows XP
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX400
Driver version: 9.1.4.7

I'm afraid you are in a dire need of a GC upgrade - it's the card, not the game... it's just too old.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 05 Oct 2006, 21:37

Naskoni wrote: I'm afraid you are in a dire need of a GC upgrade - it's the card, not the game... it's just too old.

New drivers might help, the rest of the game is working, ain't it?

thunderbolt · Unread postby **thunderbolt** » 05 Oct 2006, 21:40

Yeah the rest of the game works fine, the castles are the only things that are missing.

Where would i get a driver upgrade? Because i went to the NVIDIA site and downloaded some control panel instead. o_0

davhey · Unread postby **davhey** » 15 Oct 2006, 11:21

Ack - I have this exact same problem. Updated my drivers, have tried every setting change - no luck.

Oh and before DaemianLucifer comes in with his 9 millionth rant about how much he hates the game - I still like it :P

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 15 Oct 2006, 15:15

Nah,I wont do it.I dont like saying that in posts that I cannot say something constructive as well(like a way out of this problem).I would suggest updating directX,but the game requires the newest version,so I doubt thats whats causing it.So the card you have isnt supported.Ubi should be contacted about it,and a fix for some cards should come out soon,aside from the patches(at least I know other companies would do that).

Caradoc · Unread postby **Caradoc** » 15 Oct 2006, 21:42

thunderbolt wrote:I bought it legally, but it crashed every time i started a new game. So i googled help (apparantly it happened to a lot of people) and a "corrected version" was said to fix it, so i downloaded it.

From where did you download it? Not every 'help' site you find on Google will be truly helpful. You may have a pirate copy and more problems than you know.

thunderbolt · Unread postby **thunderbolt** » 16 Oct 2006, 14:35

It will no longer be a pirate copy as i removed it, and installed the original again.

And actually, the weird thing is, is that the haven castle shows up.

Odish · Unread postby **Odish** » 16 Oct 2006, 16:56

I have the same problem.
Sylvan and Academy castles looks like that and the Inferno one´s looks grey instead of red
the rest of the castles looks normal
I don´t know why or how to fix it...

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 16 Oct 2006, 17:03

I present to you the buglist thread: viewtopic.php?t=1884&start=30

erased. over. out · Unread postby **erased. over. out** » 16 Oct 2006, 20:52

thunderbolt wrote:Windows XP
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX400
Driver version: 9.1.4.7

Thunderbolt, I have a pretty old GC on my laptop as well. The Wizard and Sylvan towns look like the screenshot you posted. Sucks, I know. However, the game runs very smoothly, so I am not too bothered.

Sir_Toejam · Unread postby **Sir_Toejam** » 16 Oct 2006, 22:10

hmm, somebody has been playing with the lighting to help with older video cards over on Elrath.

have you checked this thread out:

http://elrath.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=511

might be helpful.

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