Visual distortions with mini-map and graphs

Hi. I'm not sure where to report bugs...

I'm running beta 4 of the version 1.1 patch that is comming up. Anywho, earlier in the beta I ran into this problem but I wasn't aware of where to post bugs and I assumed it would be fixed. Yet, it hasn't been fixed yet.

The bug is a random garbling of the minimap (more common) or the graph area at the bottom of the UI (less common). With today's garbling I was trying to see if it at all related to me changing a ship build order from one ship to another at my home world, and I couldn't determine if it was actually the source of the problem or not. I was zoomed out quite a ways and zooming in and out would trigger this problem, or at least I would have to alternate between zoomed out (symbol) mode and zoomed in (actual planet) mode.

I have a save game of that game (it was only a few turns in), two screen shots, and a debug.err as well although I cannot seem to now reproduce that bug with the save game and the debug.err doesn't say much of anything either. If it is any help, I was running the game with the "w" option because that allows me to alt-tab in and out of game really quickly (with the other version results in really slow alt-tabs). This bug happens enough to be annoying.

I am relatively up to date with my video card drivers (and I have no warning or alike from the game) and I had no problems before. Also, if I can provide any additional information, let me know.
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I experience no garbling of that kind here so I don't think it has something to do with the build order (but I may be wrong)

will try the "w" option
Reply #2 Top
I have encountered the same problem. It usually occurs after doing something the the shipyard design window, but on an irregular basis. Typically, if I work with a new design and then cancel the output, the mini-map is fragged when I come out of the shipyard.
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no problem encountered while playing with 'w'
Reply #4 Top
Yeah... I was trying to design a scout ship shortly before encountering this error... I have to experiemnt with that later to see if that relates... If I can reproduce it, I can see if it relates to the 'w' option or not. It also might be a video card related thing...

ATI Radeon 9600
Omega Drivers 2.6.87
(I will check for updates soon though, it has been a while)
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I upgraded my drivers, now running version 3.8.231 (latest). I start GalCiv2, load game, zoom in/out on the galaxy (which is ok), go into the ship designer and drag zoom rotate and then quit, fiddle around with the ship build options at my home world, and then zoomed out on the galaxy and got the static minimap. This was while the game was running with the 'w' option.

Try the normal game, couldn't reproduce. Try the 'w' game, couldn't reproduce... DOH!