AaronBrudenell Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 (Click thumbnails for full size images) Some GUI elements don't seem to be appearing: The first are the difficulty images, which don't show initially, but after an Alt-Tab out and back again, show. The second is the Geospace. After Alt-tabbing, the financial information appears in the top right, but no geoscape: obviously this means I can't continue onto playing the game (or finding out if there are other images not loading.) Anyone know the cause and/or fix of this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giovanni Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Some graphic cards are having difficulties loading the geoscape. What are your system specs? Are your drivers updated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronBrudenell Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 It's aging a little, but it is by no means outdated apart from the Graphics Card. Drivers are up to date. Dell Dimension 5000 Intel Pentium 4 - 3.0 Ghz 1gb RAM ATI Radeon X300/X550/X1050 Series (128mb) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giovanni Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 It's exactly that 128 mb that could be the problem, at least for the geoscape loading. You're able to see the map on game start, right? When the game starts (when you're placing initial base), does the geoscape take a while to load up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronBrudenell Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 I'm not able to see the Geoscape at all. Everything else seems to work fine on the menu (no lag or graphical glitching) apart from the difficulty images (the little sillouettes) which appear after a quick ALT-Tab. On starting a new game, I get the second screenshot with the "Place your initial base" pop up. Clicking anywhere results in nothing, and alt-tabbing just adds the finanical information in the top right. Leaving it to load for 5/10 minutes has also resulted in nothing. If this will simply be a case of 128mb is insufficent graphics power I sincerely hope it'll be fixed or have a "lower res geoscape" option in final. It'd be madness if Xenonauts final will require a 256mb card, yet many 3d games have no problem with 128mb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzles Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 It'd be madness if Xenonauts final will require a 256mb card, yet many 3d games have no problem with 128mb. Gonna be honest with you here, no 3D games in past few of years have had anything *less* than 256mb as a minimum for the graphics card, and pretty much everything since mid-2011 has needed 512mb. 128mb was the general minimum spec around 2006/2007. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronBrudenell Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 (edited) Gonna be honest with you here, no 3D games in past few of years have had anything *less* than 256mb as a minimum for the graphics card, and pretty much everything since mid-2011 has needed 512mb.128mb was the general minimum spec around 2006/2007. Incorrect. There has been a large portion of the gaming market, with 3-d graphics, that only require 128mb (infact alot of them don't even need that much). That statement only stands if we're talking commercial games from major publishers with fancy explosions. But we're not talking about a game with shiny shiny graphics. We're talking about a turn based strategy that prides itself on a 2d isometric appearance: that is why I'll be disappointed if I can't play Xenonauts, especially as the only system requirements information on the website say, Initial testing suggests that anything with over 128mb of video memory and more than 1gb of disk space will be able to run the game If that means anything with 128mb can't play the game, then it should be edited. Edited October 31, 2012 by AaronBrudenell Spelling mistake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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