Ok, this one has a bit of a history. First, I installed the Ultimate Edition of Galactic Civilizations II and applied the newest patch via Impulse. Then I started the game and it seemed to work fine. However, after starting a new game I noticed strange graphic errors appearing. They had the form of white and green flickering rectangles, appearing in regular intervals on my sceen. Also the buttons looked wrong, with discolored pixels and slightly garbled text.
I tried several things, and though I managed to make the flickering rectangles vanish, they always reappeared after some time. Running out of options, I updated my video drivers, even though the ones I had were already pretty recent.
Problem is that now all text in the game has disappeared. I start it, the main menu comes up, and all the buttons are blank, with no text on them. Experimentally clicking the uppermost button leads to another screen, which also has no text where obviously should be some. Also the performance is really bad for some reason (as I can see from the animation in the main menu), which wasn't the case before the driver update.
I already tried reinstalling GalCivII and restarting my machine, didn't work. I'd appreciate some help here. First with the no-text,bad-performance problem, and then with the flickering-rectangles problem, if that's still there.
My debug.err is as follows:
Debug Message: Version v2.01 Dark Avatar last updated on: Mon Nov 24 16:26:43 2008
Debug Message: Checking DX Version.
Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.*********
System Info
Time: 6/1/2009, 18:31:50
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Machine Name: BLUERPSHQ
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090206-1234)
Languages: German (Regional Setting: German)
System Manufacturer: VIA
System Model: K7VT4APro
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.7GHz
Physical Memory: 512MB RAM
Page File: 322MB used, 2158MB available
Windows Dir: F:\WINDOWS
Display Info
Display device 1:
Device Name: \\.\DISPLAY1
Card Name: Sapphire RADEON X1600 PRO
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip Type: ATI Radeon Graphics Processor AGP (0x71C2)
DAC Type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Key Device: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_71C2&SUBSYS_0850174B&REV_00
Display Memory: 256.0 MB
Current Display Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (85Hz)
Monitor Name: Plug und Play-Monitor
Monitor Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6925
Driver Date: 2/25/2009 23:41:10
DirectX Acceleration Enabled: Yes
Sound info
Sound device 1:
Description: SB Live!-Wavegerät
Default Sound Playback
Default Voice Playback
Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80641102&REV_07
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Driver Name: emu10k1m.sys
Provider: Microsoft
Driver Version: 5.12.0001.3300
Driver Date: 8/17/2001 13:19:26
Type: WDM
Other Drivers:
Acceleration Level: 3
Cap Flags: 0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
Debug Message: *********END dxdiag info.*********
Debug Message: Entering WinMain
Debug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell *******
Debug Message: Going Fullscreen
Debug Message: Preparing to change display settings.
Debug Message: Using hardware vertex processing
Debug Message: Using multilsample setting: D3DMULTISAMPLE_4_SAMPLES
Debug Message: Attempting to create D3DDevice at resolution 1024 x 768, Windowed: 0, Multisample: 4
Debug Message: Game Resolution: 1024 x 768
Debug Message: Running fullscreen.
Debug Message: HAL (hw vp): Sapphire RADEON X1600 PRO
Debug Message: D3DPRESENT_INTERVAL_DEFAULT
Debug Message: Refresh rate: 85
Debug Message: Bit Depth: 32 bit.
Debug Message: *********Checking D3DDevice Caps***********************
Debug Message: A full-color cursor is supported in hardware at high resolution modes.
Debug Message: RGB in format 6:6:6, Masks reported as ff0000:ff00:ff
Debug Message: Now Fullscreen
Debug Message: Shell initialization complete
Debug Message: GalCiv2 is activated.
Debug Message: ***** Initializing Game *****
Debug Message: Timer Frequency is 0 369e99
Debug Message: Initializing sound card.
Debug Message: initailizing bink
Debug Message: No files found matching mask Movies\techs\*.bik
Debug Message: No files found matching mask F:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Björn\Eigene Dateien\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar\Gfx\Movies\*.bik
Debug Message: No files found matching mask F:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Björn\Eigene Dateien\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar\sfx\*.wav
Debug Message: No files found matching mask F:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Björn\Eigene Dateien\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar\Music\*.mp3
Debug Message: No files found matching mask F:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Björn\Eigene Dateien\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar\Event Music\*.mp3
Debug Message: Create setup screens.
Debug Message: Clear galaxy settings.
Debug Message: Clear influence.
Debug Message: Clear up laws.
Debug Message: Clear first time events.
Debug Message: Clear wonders and trade goods.
Debug Message: Clear sector mapper.
Debug Message: Set mouse.
Debug Message: Set update timer.
Debug Message: Clear data definitions.
Debug Message: Killing ship styles:
Debug Message: No files found matching mask F:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Björn\Eigene Dateien\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar\ships\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask F:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Björn\Eigene Dateien\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar\shiptemplates\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask F:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Björn\Eigene Dateien\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar\ShipStyles\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask ./Data/\FleetFormations\*.fleet
Debug Message: No files found matching mask Gfx\Planets\C0*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/1SideN*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/1SideE*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/1SideS*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/1SideW*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/2SideN*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/2SideE*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/2SideS*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/2SideW*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/3SideN*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/3SideE*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/3SideS*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/3SideW*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/4SideN*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/4SideE*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/4SideS*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask gfx/Terrain/4SideW*.png
Debug Message: No files found matching mask F:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Björn\Eigene Dateien\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar\ships\*.shipcfg
Debug Message: Reading Star Names
Debug Message: Reading Star Names... Done
Debug Message: No files found matching mask ./Data/German/Tutorials/*.xml
Debug Message: TitleWnd: Quit Button.
Debug Message: Posting WM_CLOSE message.
Debug Message: WM_CLOSE message received.
Debug Message: GameUninitialize start
Debug Message: Killing Galaxy
Debug Message: Killing threads.
Debug Message: Kiling civs.
Debug Message: Killing ships.
Debug Message: Killing rallypoints.
Debug Message: Killing misc objects.
Debug Message: Killing stars.
Debug Message: Killing anomalies.
Debug Message: Killing asteroid fields.
Debug Message: Killing asteroid field mining bases.
Debug Message: Killing space resources.
Debug Message: Killing colonies and planets.
Debug Message: killing scenario.
Debug Message: Clearing Turn Event Log
Debug Message: Clear galaxy settings.
Debug Message: Clear influence.
Debug Message: Clear up laws.
Debug Message: Clear first time events.
Debug Message: Clear wonders and trade goods.
Debug Message: Clear sector mapper.
Debug Message: Clear data definitions.
Debug Message: Killing ship styles:
Debug Message: Killing Galaxy: Completed
Debug Message: Shutting down sound system.
Debug Message: Clearing sound and music handles.
Debug Message: GameUninitialize end
Debug Message: Device not cleared. 1 counts left.
Debug Message: D3D not cleared. 1 counts left.
Debug Message: Destroying Window.
Debug Message: Main Shell terminating normally
