funkymonkey

I tried running the game with OpenGL using the SC4 Launcher, and when I entered a city tile, I got this white cover on my terrain: So I guess Open GL is a dead end for me too? ------------------------------------------------------ I added the following to configure the game with my graphics card as per your suggestion: For Graphics Rules.sgr: stringMatch cardIdentity "GeForce*GTX*260M*" stringMatch cardIdentity "NVidia*GeForce*GTX*260M*" For Video Cards.sgr: card 0x0618 "GeForce GTX 260M" card 0x0618 "NVidia GeForce GTX 260M" And the game config log from Apps returns this: sglDriverName = Software sglDriverVersion = 1.0 driverName = nvd3dum.dll driverVersion = 9.18.13.4181, GUID: D7B71E3E-4558-11CF-F373-523A0DC2CD35 cardName = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M cardVersion = Vendor: 10de, Device: 0618, Board: 1a521043, Chipset: 00a2 cardIdentity = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M So it seems that the game is recognizing my graphics card correctly. Unfortunately even with the changes in Graphics Rules.sgr and Video Cards.sgr, the black boxes glitch still persists. ------------------------------------------------------ In the meantime, I think I will switch to “hardware” mode whenever I play in city tiles that have any HD water so the game won’t CTD, and switch to “software” mode whenever I play in tiles without any HD water so black boxes glitch won’t appear.

Hi all, new to Simtropolis here. The game has been running fine except this graphical glitch with black boxes on the region map as shown here: I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium x64. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’ve done some searching around and found these two posts both experiencing the same problem as I have been: https://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/65403-strange-region-view-edge-glitch/ The op “fixed” the problem by switching from “hardware” to “software” in game settings, and then reloading and saving each tile that had the black boxes glitch. This also “fixed” it for me but I wanted to use an HD water mod in my game and the “software” setting will cause CTD. Also the “software” setting runs a lot slower than “hardware” on my computer. https://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/62002-black-box-bug/ The op here fixed the problem by switching resolution from 1600x1200 to 800x600. I tried switching my resolution from 1366x768 to 800x600 and to 640x480, and ran the game and saved over the city tile with black boxes, but the black boxes remained. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Then I noticed something very strange. Keeping the game set in “hardware” mode, I started messing around with the in-game graphics setting options, and for some unknown reason, whenever I checked the box that turns on waves, then saved and exited back to the region map, the black boxes disappeared. Enabling waves: Black boxes gone: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And then I thought “well okay, I just keep the waves turned on and the glitch should be gone.” But whenever I start a tile that has no water or has water body too small to have any waves, the black boxes glitch would appear again regardless whether I checked the waves box or not: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So this whole investigation got me thinking if there is something wrong with the appearance and disappearance of wave graphics in the game that causes this black box glitch in the region map. I’m not computer savvy enough to look deeper into this, so anyone willing to help look into it and maybe find a way to bypass or fix the glitch will be very much appreciated. Thanks!