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Serious Video Issue

Screen Shakes

January 9, 2009 9:03:03 PM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

Hi. I'm having some serious video issues in GalCiv Twilight. Every time the area of the screen is changed to select a different ship or star, the screen shakes violently. It's like someone was picking up the game and shaking it. I was having this trouble before, so I downloaded the lastest video driver from ATI. That solved the problem for a couple of turns, but now it is back worse than ever.

I've tried mucking around with the video settings, but nothing has any affect whatsoever.

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davidbudreck
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Reply #1 January 10, 2009 3:10:09 AM
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Have you tried reducing the anti-aliasing down to zero to see if that clears the issue?

Sorry i cant help more but not sure on your system specs.

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Reply #2 January 10, 2009 3:18:21 AM
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If you are doing this just after you hit the Turn key, it may be that the screen is going from your selected ship to an AI ship(s) that is contacting one or more of your planets or ships.

You are experiencing a focus issue, I would imagine. The focus changes very fast, and the game seems to jump around.

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Reply #3 January 10, 2009 9:34:06 AM
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I have tried cranking the video quality all the way down to poor.  I have tried turing off enhanced ship rendering--this made the problem worse.

The shaking happens any time the screen is moved for any reason.  When I click on a different region in the mini-map, the screen jitters over to it.  If I ever touch the side of the screen, which is supposed to scroll, the screen whooshes off into some area way off the grid and shows me only blank background.

The starbases are supposed to be rotating; mine jitter.  Any rotation in the ship windows, or the planet in the upper left corner when in planet mode, spin so fast they are almost a blur.

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Reply #4 January 10, 2009 2:50:46 PM
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Any rotation in the ship windows, or the planet in the upper left corner when in planet mode, spin so fast they are almost a blur.

AMD dual core processor without the AMD dual core optimizer installed.

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Reply #5 January 12, 2009 12:07:43 PM
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Not the optimizer actually, but you do need the driver which is third-to-last on that linked page.

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Reply #6 January 12, 2009 3:49:45 PM
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Quoting kryo,
reply 5
Not the optimizer actually, but you do need the driver which is third-to-last on that linked page.

I was close. 

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