[1.07]Intermittent UI background problem.

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Lately, and this just started happening recently even though I've been playing the same patch for a while, the UI backgrounds are not showing up. The text is visible but the window background is missing. Can't play like that really. The problem appears upon startup, and only a restart will sometimes fix it. Sometimes it's very stubborn and takes two or three restarts for the main menu to display properly.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

If this happens, try clearing out the Screens folder in C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic on Windows XP).

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Well I just tried that, and I still have the problem. Sometimes I've been able to fix it by going to the cartography room, which always crashes when things are in this state, and then after I start the game again it will be ok. This seems to work most of the time, but there were definately times when it did not work.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Ok, I have a debug.err file this time, and I think it has relevent information. I should also say that I'm running the game in windowed mode so I can switch easily among different apps for modding purposes.

I started up, had no backgrounds, went to cartography table and got two crashes. I'm guessing one for the editor and one for the main app? Dunno, here's the pastebin.

http://pastebin.com/7LLD7Myx 


Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah, looks like the generated screen files in ProgramData got corrupted. Hard to say just how it happened, though.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

I went back to fullscreen and the problem does not happen there.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Out of curiosity, have you changed the atlas size setting?