Broken Texture in SC4

[crazyasterix 0]

Good Day,

 

I have a problem that in SC4 some Textures are broken (see pictures)

 

I already reinstalled the game but that didn't fixed it and I changed the graphic settings to test that.

Does someone know how to fix this ?

 

I have SC4 Deluxe Edition on Steam.

I have win10 with a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU

Hope someone can help thanks.

 

On the first Pic there is the Bug on Roads which are getting Builded. On the Second pic its the Zones that getting zoned and on the Third pic its in UDI Cars and Sirenes has the problem.

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It looks like a graphical compatibility issue, since it's mostly affecting transparency, SC4 was designed for DirectX 7 and not all modern GPU drivers naively support some of the game's functions.

Step one though is to check what settings are currently in use, since a lot of dual-GPU laptops like you have, will default to the on-board (usually Intel) graphics, which are known to have some graphical glitches. Inside the installation folder, open the Apps folder and find the file MYCOMPUTERNAME-config-log.txt, copy it's contents into your next post and we can see a lot of useful information to assist you.

Whilst SC4 will run better using your dedicated NVidia card, that might require the use of a Wrapper, but either way they are designed to bridge these gaps, essentially converting commands of newer DirectX versions to work for older ones (games). The post i made here details how to setup dgVoodoo2 for SC4 and I would recommend this Wrapper since it allows you to select which GPU/Display the game will utilise.