Blocks around city in region view

[larryparadise 10]

Hello..has anyone ran into the situation in my screenshot?  I reinstalled the game today along with all my mods and can't seem to figure out what's causing the issue I'm getting in region view.

Any ideas?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

If you open that tile and save it, does the problem go away?

[larryparadise 10]

i tried that and it just changed the way the area around the city looks in region view

[raynev1 1,886]

Wow , that's the first time I've seen anything like that . Good luck .

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

When you rendered the region, what resolution was your monitor set to?  Anything greater than 1999 vertical invokes a known problem.  If this is possibly a newer manifestation of this bug, try a render at a lower density.  Once rendering is finished you can return to your desired resolution.

[larryparadise 10]

No luck so far...my original monitor resolution was 1280 x 800.  I dialed it down to 1024 x 768, deleted the region and rendered it again, the issue is still happening unfortunately. 

[rsc204 21,804]

What renderer are you using to play the game? You can check/set this from the settings in the games region view. The options are Direct X, OpenGL and Software. Try all three (you need to restart the game after changing), it may be your hardware has incompatibilities with Direct X or OpenGL.

[larryparadise 10]

I think i misunderstood...what do you all mean by renderers?  I created the region by coloring in the config file in the region using Microsoft paint.

In settings I just see hardware and software as the options.

[rsc204 21,804]

Yes it's those options "hardware / software" I forgot OpenGL isn't selectable in-game. Try switching from hardware to software or vice-versa and see if saving the city fixes the glitch. I've known this to happen when the render for the game is not fully compatible with your hardware. To enable OpenGL (doesn't work on all setups), you'd need to enter the command switch "-D:OpenGL"

[larryparadise 10]

I tried changing the renderer and am still getting the glitch...where do I go to try the open GL option? 

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

In your shortcut that opens the game, right click.  Select properties, and on the page you get you should see a text box labelled Target.  In the text box after the final quote mark enter a single space (bar) then -d:opengl 

Then click on Apply or OK to close this page, and try your game.  If it crashes or things look really funny, simply go back and undo this.

If you will tell me the URL of the region you are trying to render (from the STEX, I assume), I will try it with my system.  I can diagnose most problems with these regions.

[larryparadise 10]

That seemed to fix it...I appreciate everyone's help with this, thank you!

Nonny...this region's not on the STEX, it's one I created from scratch.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Fine.  What was the fix?

[larryparadise 10]

The GLopen fix seemed to do the trick.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Hmmm.  That's OpenGL by the way.  Spelling really matters here.  Perhaps you just don't have the right version of DirectX.