Empire: Total War graphics corruption after battle

[Ronin Storm]

Anyone else getting the following and/or know how to fix it...?

I'm playing through The Road to Independence. Initially, all was well. But then, after a battle, the screen corrupted in the seas and all the unit models vanished (on the strategic map). Now when I reload the game, all is well again but one battle, corruption and vanished models.

I've just updated my graphics drivers to try to resolve this. No joy.

Ideas?

 

[Nanor]

It hasn't happened to me. What card are you on?

 

[Ronin Storm]

Graphics: BFG 8800GTS OC2 320MB

 

[Nanor]

Well I'm on a similar card and haven't noticed any problems. Not sure. I'll look around.

 

[thatbloke]

Maybe a stupid question but have you got the latest version of DirectX9 installed?

 

[Ronin Storm]

Hmm, I might not have. I'll double check on that.

[edit]...and...[/edit]

Good thought. Unfortunately, already updated.

 

[Gizmo-5]

Had a similair problem in campaign twice today. I think there is a memory leak as the battles seem to take longer and longer to load, even when theres only like 40 guys fighting

But yea ive had graphics errors twice, running two 8800 on 32 bit vista

 

[Nanor]

Am I the only one who has to wait about 3 minutes (literally) for a battle to load, regardless of size?

 

[Ronin Storm]

3 minutes? I think I wait around 1 minute 30, but probably not as much as 3.

 

[Gizmo-5]

what really dicks me off is watching russian diplomats walk BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS EVERY TURN! watching all the other nations gets really tiresome and drags the game out somewhat, especially when all they seem to do are pointless "patrols"

(sweden is mine!)

 

[PsiSoldier]

Turn "Follow AI movement" off, or something similar. Unless for some strange reason they took that option out of the game.

 

[Nanor]

I believe the option is "Watch CPU moves" in game options.

 

[Ronin Storm]

I'll see if that helps.

I turned v-sync on and that seemed to help for a bit but the problem reoccured so I'm not convinced that was really anything to do with why it stopped being a pain for a bit.