Graphic Issues

No planets on map

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I've just installed the game and i cannot see any planets on the screen. Do I have to research sensors or is this a bug ?
I have an ATI Sapphire 256 MB and the newest drivers.

Thanx for help
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Bug. Please post a debug.err
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Unless you're talking about the minimap, in which case you need to research stellar cartography. Or areas you haven't explored yet.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I answered your other post with this:
If your ships are looking ugly, too, then take a look on this https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=162&AID=111112 Link it might be your textures are missing. Don't be irritated because the posts speaks of the "German release" the problem happens on all systems with nonenglish numeric formats.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It seems strange that the application of textures should be at all affected by localization of a computer, since it only affects display formats. The numbers are stored in memory the same way, in binary.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It isn't that strange when you look in deep to it.
Most times this problem occurs when you read a number from a file, let's say there is wirtten:
value=1,000
now you simply say "read("value")" in your code. the rest depends on your libraries you are using, most simpy give this read-request to the operation system, and this sees:
1,000 -> hey, the user told me the "," is his seperator, so he wants me to tell him "1"
or
1,000 -> hey, the user told me the "." is his seperator, so he wants me to tell him "1000"
After this, the numbers are handled the same way, the problem mostly is simply the read/write.
Often this problem is solved by simply multiplicating the number with 100/1000 or other values, so you don't need to have a comma in your datafiles.