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Interface bug (buttons) - 5/30/2010 7:28:22 PM

peacemaker1945

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Hi all.

A few hours after starting the game strange interface bug arise.

When I click on base, buttons for units and resources within bottom screen
are shown in black. Even in black the buttons are still clickable and works but
bug still bug, I will be glad to have some support on this matter.
By the way, I can not make a screenshot as I get a "Low memory" error
message each time I try to make a screenshot of selected base screen.

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RE: Interface bug (buttons) - 5/30/2010 7:46:25 PM

pompack

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I have discovered that a number of strange things occur, including "black buttons" on the lower screen panel, when I alt-tab during the combat animations. When it happens to me, the only way I can get rid of it is to quit the program and then restart. Any saves I make after the "black buttons" are good when I restart so no harm done. I don't know if this is related to your problem or not, but the fix for my problem is "don't do that"; I can alt-tab at all other times wiith no problems. I have also had this happen when some idiot Microsoft operating system wants to do updates and tabs out of the game during combat; hate it when that happens.

Don't know if this helps or not, but that has been my experience with a problem that sounds a lot like yours

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RE: Interface bug (buttons) - 5/30/2010 11:25:27 PM

wdolson

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This happens when the memory used for video gets corrupted. There are several causes. If you don't have enough RAM on your machine or running a lot of programs in the background that eat up your RAM is one cause. More frequently, it's what Pompack said. If you are running in the default, full screen mode and Alt+Tab out and back, the video memory can get messed up. This is a DirectX thing and we don't have complete control over it. It happens less now than it did with WitP, but it still happens sometimes.

If you are switching screens back and forth, it tends to happen less frequently if you are in windowed mode. Change the command line for the game with the -w switch and the game will come up in windowed mode (there are many posts in the forum about command line switches and how to set them). If the native resolution of your system is set very fine, the window might end up fairly small though. If you change the native resolution to something a little finer than 1024X768, the window will show up close to full screen.

Bill

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RE: Interface bug (buttons) - 5/31/2010 4:05:41 PM

peacemaker1945

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Thanks guys. Unfortunately, I do not using ALT+TAB before black outs happen.

Just for your reference I have attached the screen copy of this interface bug.
The bad thing is this happens each time within 1 hour into the game. Any possible
solutions will be appreciated. Oh, and yes I have 2 GIG of RAM, therefore that is
not a problem for sure.

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RE: Interface bug (buttons) - 5/31/2010 11:05:23 PM

wdolson

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Are there any other programs running when this happens? The behavior is consistent with what I've seen.

Try windowed mode.

Bill

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