Is this a bug? because if it is, it's serious!

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I was just playing TA, when suddenly the screen was a jumble. I'll run a virus scan, but has anyone else had this problem?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Was a jumble???
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
sounds like windows graphics drivers or the card (if unsupported) gave out. Update your drivers.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Sounds a lot more like an overheating video card than a virus. Did you have anything running minimized? Having VLC player running in the background messes up my GalCiv graphics.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I scanned, and no viruses. It WAS raining, it might have been a power surge.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've had that issue, both in TA and in DA. I know my card has very little VRAM, so I've always figured that it was just my system overworking the video card.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Strangely enough, I've occasionally seen a temporary jumble on the screen immediately after starting or loading a game, but then nothing from then on. Since it doesn't impact anything, it doesn't seem to be much of an issue.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The only jumble I've seen is in the power graphs. I really need to remember to screen shot it.... It seems somewhat random, lasts a few turns, then fixes itself.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The only jumble I've seen is in the power graphs. I really need to remember to screen shot it.... It seems somewhat random, lasts a few turns, then fixes itself.
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'Print Scr' is your friend.

Sometimes it can be a 'budget' issue.
If you run too low on funds, funding will be cut off. So the graph will show a drop-off for a turn or three.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Nope, not that. I've encountered that many times in GC2. No, this is new to TA. I'll be playing for a while and suddenly notice that my graphs have gone completely wonky. I'm yet to have time to play since I mentioned it... Holidays are sucking all my time.
Something like this: (EDIT: ASCII art didn't quite work, pretend the '.' marks are blank spaces.)
._. _
. _. _ ________
_. _. _

Basically, the beginning of the chart loses cohesion, but then the "current" part of the chart is stable and works fine. I might have a chance to play again in a few days... we'll see what happens then.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It could also be the video card overheating, depending on the nature of the wonkiness, of course....
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Nope, not that. I've encountered that many times in GC2. No, this is new to TA. I'll be playing for a while and suddenly notice that my graphs have gone completely wonky. I'm yet to have time to play since I mentioned it... Holidays are sucking all my time.
Something like this: (EDIT: ASCII art didn't quite work, pretend the '.' marks are blank spaces.)
._. _
. _. _ ________
_. _. _
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Yes and mine looks like this:
. - +
1% 3

Except pretend the dot is an HP Inspiron laptop with an ATI600 mobile video card. The - and + are "wonky" and "jumbled" video. The 1% represents me looking very confused and the 3 is my cat who got into the shot by mistake.