Graphical glitches
Hello all,
Been meaning to try this series of games since I heard about # 2 a few years ago. Just downloaded the demo feeling a bit optimistic and then promptly ran into problems.
It seems the game doesn't like something about my set up.
My computer is much faster than the requirements, geforce 128mb card, gig of ram, 2.8 ghz amd, but according to the test in the preferences I get 1(one) frame per second on the battlemap.
I don't particularly care for graphics in a game like this so I hit the "w" key to turn it all off and see if that helps. It speeds things up quite nicely but often when a soldier receives damage things will go glitchy and sometimes entire armies disappear, which then promptly reappear if I use the arrow keys to move the battle view around. Alt-tabbing also has detrimental effects, causing what appears to be lower resolutions in some game images and generally turning the colour palette inside out, i.e. lots of black where there should be red, sometimes the interface on the map screen disappears, leaving white font on the light background of the map.
Its a shame too because it seems like a good game, its just hard for me to play a game with low-res graphics and 2d sprites at 1(one) fps on my two month old computer. Kind of a deal-breaker y'know?
Anyone know if the patches might fix a full version? Could it be Vista causing problems? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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