[EU3] Graphics issues on UE3 Complete

[Empress Meg]

Hi all,

I installed EU3 Complete yesterday, after uninstalling the original UE3 (apparently my PC thought it was the same game). I have upgraded to the 3.1 patch via the "check for updates option".

I now have two graphical issues.

The first isn't so horrible and I can live with it if necessary but wanted opinions on it anyways. I have advanced seas ticked on my video options, but I don't get them as I did in the original EU3. The seas I have are flat, dull blue with no life in them. I do recall having some slight movement in the oceans in the original EU3. I've checked the settings.txt and simpleWater=no. Furthermore, the Fog of War looks so static! Instead of the ethereal edges I have blocks of white indicating permanent terra incognitia. Wasn't like that at all in EU3.

The second issue I am having is a weird text issue. I do not know what triggers it, but my screen will freeze for just a moment and then it'll go black for a split second and come back to life with the white text all removed and replaced with horrible graphical mush. This makes the text illegible, forcing me to quit the game and restart. I'll try to get a screenshot of it next time it happens to show you.

Any ideas? Tinkering with the game's settings doesn't appear to do much of anything.

Enclosed: EU3C settings.txt and my specs.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

gui={
language=l_english
}
graphics={
size={
x=1024
y=768
}

refreshRate=60
fullScreen=yes
shadows=no
shadowSize=2048
multisampling=4
anisotropicFiltering=0
gamma=50.000000
}
sound_fx_volume=100.000000
music_volume=75.000000
scroll_speed=50.000000
camera_rotation_speed=50.000000
zoom_speed=50.000000
mouse_speed=50.000000
master_volume=30.000000
ambient_volume=50.000000
mapRenderingOptions={
renderTrees=yes
onmap=yes
simpleWater=no
}
lastplayer="MrHuman"
lasthost=""
serveradress="diplomacy.valkyrienet.com"
autosave="YEARLY"
outliner={
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 }


Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3
System Manufacturer: HP Pavilion 061
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz
Memory: 1024MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
Display Memory: 512.0 MB

Looks like I fixed the issue myself by a complete reinstall- twice. I'll close this.