Graphic Troubles

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Having some serious troubles running CK2 on a GeForce 460, which is well above min spec. All kinds of artifacts appear on the screen in the first few minutes of play, and then the game Crashes to Desktop and once even forced a shutdown! In fact the first time I started up the game Russia was covered in "3d water" and flickered rapidly. Given that I play Witcher2 and Skyrim on high settings with this card, I'm having a hard time believing the relatively more modest (apparently at least) demands that CK2 would put on the card would do this.

I tried turning off water and sky in the Global Settings, but it didn't help.

Running the game in 1440x900 resolution.

And yes, yes, I am using the latest NVIDIA driver. First thing I did was download it.

Any recommendations?

Thanks Paradox for a great game!

(Edit: Searched for solutions to this, as well as Paradox support site, but all I got back was developer blog updates and people with 10 year old cards being aggravated about the game not working).

 

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Here's the specs:

[systemsettings.cpp:180]: System memory: 0MB
[systemsettings.cpp:182]: CPU speed: 1800MHz
[systemsettings.cpp:189]: Number of processors: 4
[systemsettings.cpp:200]: CPU type: x86
[systemsettings.cpp:232]: OS: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Build: 6001
[gfx_settings.cpp:54]: Graphic Adapters:
[gfx_settings.cpp:59]: 0: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
[gfx_settings.cpp:76]: Checking for multi-sampling support:
[gfx_settings.cpp:87]: 2 samples supported.
[gfx_settings.cpp:87]: 4 samples supported.
[gfx_settings.cpp:87]: 8 samples supported.
[gfx_settings.cpp:102]: Using Adapter [0]:
[gfx_settings.cpp:108]: Succeeded to create a device [D3DCREATE_HARDWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING].
[gfx_settings.cpp:150]: Graphics device: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
[gfx_settings.cpp:151]: Graphics driver: nvd3dum.dll
[gfx_settings.cpp:156]: Driver version: 9573
[gfx_settings.cpp:173]:


Dumping all gfx info:
DeviceIdentifier: {D7B71E3E-4D62-11CF-977E-8C331FC2C535}
VendorId: 4318
DeviceId: 3618
SubSysId: 327170114
Revision: 161
DriverVersion.HighPart: 524305
DriverVersion.LowPart: 796005


[gfx_settings.cpp:223]: Instancing supported.
[gfx_settings.cpp:241]: Video memory amount: 1342MB
[gfx_settings.cpp:244]: Support for T&L found.
[gfx_settings.cpp:247]: MaxSimultaneousTextures: 8
[gfx_settings.cpp:248]: MaxVertexBlendMatrices: 4
[gfx_settings.cpp:249]: MaxVertexBlendMatrixIndex: 8
[gfx_settings.cpp:251]: MaxSimultaneousTextures: 8
[gfx_settings.cpp:252]: MaxTextureBlendStages: 8
[gfx_settings.cpp:253]: Support for Anisotropic filtering found.
[gfx_settings.cpp:256]: Max Anisotropic filtering: 16
[gfx_settings.cpp:257]: Anisotropic filtering set to: 0
[gfx_settings.cpp:261]: Vertex Shader version: 3.0
[gfx_settings.cpp:266]: Pixel Shader version: 3.0
[main.cpp:411]: CK2 Version Feb 16 2012 : 15:15:43
[internationalizedtext.cpp:1244]: Create table
[internationalizedtext.cpp:1246]: Create text database
[graphicssettings.cpp:624]: Not using multisampling.
[graphics.cpp:151]: Creating device with: HARDWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING
Fullscreen=yes
RefreshRate=60
Resolution=1440x900
[graphicssettings.cpp:413]: Usable res: 1024 768 60
[graphicssettings.cpp:413]: Usable res: 1152 864 60
[graphicssettings.cpp:413]: Usable res: 1280 768 60
[graphicssettings.cpp:413]: Usable res: 1280 800 60
[graphicssettings.cpp:413]: Usable res: 1280 960 60
[graphicssettings.cpp:413]: Usable res: 1280 960 75
[graphicssettings.cpp:413]: Usable res: 1280 1024 60
[graphicssettings.cpp:413]: Usable res: 1280 1024 75
[graphicssettings.cpp:413]: Usable res: 1360 768 60
[graphicssettings.cpp:413]: Usable res: 1440 900 60
[graphics.cpp:190]: Done creating device.
[graphics.cpp:1783]: Used video memory before alt tab:
[graphics.cpp:1826]: Used video memory after alt tab:
[graphics.cpp:1783]: Used video memory before alt tab:
[graphics.cpp:1826]: Used video memory after alt tab:
[graphics.cpp:1783]: Used video memory before alt tab:
[graphics.cpp:1826]: Used video memory after alt tab:
[graphics.cpp:1783]: Used video memory before alt tab:
[graphics.cpp:1826]: Used video memory after alt tab:
[graphics.cpp:1783]: Used video memory before alt tab:
[graphics.cpp:1826]: Used video memory after alt tab:

 

[The Blood Eagle]

My issue is that selecting large numbers of troops slows the game to a crawl, and selecting the military screen seems to take about 5 seconds.

Any advice there?

 

[AndrewT]

My issue is that selecting large numbers of troops slows the game to a crawl, and selecting the military screen seems to take about 5 seconds.

Any advice there?

Your issue is nothing whatsoever to do with the topic of this thread. Please start your own fresh thread here, with full problem and system details.

 

[AndrewT]

Having some serious troubles running CK2 on a GeForce 460, which is well above min spec. All kinds of artifacts appear on the screen in the first few minutes of play, and then the game Crashes to Desktop and once even forced a shutdown! In fact the first time I started up the game Russia was covered in "3d water" and flickered rapidly. Given that I play Witcher2 and Skyrim on high settings with this card, I'm having a hard time believing the relatively more modest (apparently at least) demands that CK2 would put on the card would do this.

I tried turning off water and sky in the Global Settings, but it didn't help.

Running the game in 1440x900 resolution.

And yes, yes, I am using the latest NVIDIA driver. First thing I did was download it.

Any recommendations?

Thanks Paradox for a great game!

(Edit: Searched for solutions to this, as well as Paradox support site, but all I got back was developer blog updates and people with 10 year old cards being aggravated about the game not working).

The only setting.txt line that has any actual effect is trees, try turning them off.

That aside, I wonder if you have an overheating problem. Please report the temperatures of your CPU and video (GPU) 1/ before starting the game up and 2/ after say 20 minutes' play. If your PC's vendor has given you no way of reading temperatures, Google for and install SPEEDFAN.