Graphics problems

**Lord Firkraag** · November 11, 2007, 07:16 AM

Hey,

I was just playing Medieval 2 - Kingdoms and noticed two strange graphical errors.

First, on the game menus, sometimes a few strange lines appeared horizontally on the screen, from one side to the other, a few pixels thick.

But more annoyingly, while playing a siege battle, many of my units would grow funny triangular shapes over their heads, that would stretch all the way to the sky, when viewed from a certain angle. The texture on them looked vaguely like a Siege Tower texture. I took screenshots, but the glitch does not appear on them.

What could be causing this? Five days ago I upgraded to a Core 2 Quad CPU with GeForce 8800GTX 768MB for the graphics - but today is the first time any glitch showed. The only different thing I did today was that I opened the New World game for the first time - before I was only playing the Crusades and the Teutonic campaigns. Still the lines on the menu now appear on all campaigns.

Edit: The lines on the menus appear on screenshots

**Shadowcry** · November 13, 2007, 07:13 PM

Whoa the same thing happened to me! I have tired everything from reinstalling drivers to uninstalling them nothing works. Even my boot menu has lines on it now!

**Chim** · November 14, 2007, 01:13 AM

I believe that quadcore and dualcore aren't really supported by the game. try running it on one core. (Vista also hates games btw)

**Primvs Sextvs Loverlord** · November 14, 2007, 01:35 AM

Do you have the latest version of the Windows Media Player? I remember having some issues with Medieval II when my WMP version was out of date.

**Lord Firkraag** · November 14, 2007, 08:45 AM

No Vista, couldn't find one good reason to upgrade. I do have the latest WMP, though I never use it, mostly Winamp. Also, I haven't seen these two bugs since the time of the post. Could have been random.

Or maybe it was caused by the Americas Campaign; haven't opened it since, too busy with Crusades.

**Skibbles** · November 14, 2007, 02:59 PM

It could be a overheating problem or simply a bad card.

**Shadowcry** · November 14, 2007, 09:55 PM

No Its not just a software problem as it has nothing to do just with medieval. Try other games like for me i tried half life 2 with the same distortion. I believe it is a driver / hardware issue.