Flickering Skins

**Acid Dent** · October 05, 2009, 04:50 PM

Hello, I have a laptop 3 GB Ram, integrated ATI Radeon 3100, Vista, using RS1.5c on Alex.exe.
Because of video card integration, I play with mid-to-low graphics, 16 bit color, no detailed shading, no gloss maps, pretty much everything is low or off.
In battle, some City Hoplites appear with no torso, as in, you see the head, arms, legs, cape, but no chest. As soon as deployment phase starts, the unit's chest flickers in and out for a few miliseconds than disappears completely for the rest of the battle. At first I thought it was a memory problem, so I tried restarting the game, changing graphics options, using maximum priority for Alex.exe, but nothing works. All Hoplites sharing the same chest skin of Spartan Hoplites are invisible.
Could it be a file or parameter mislocation?

**tone** · October 06, 2009, 03:38 AM

You need to turn unit shaders on.

**Solidarios** · August 02, 2010, 02:14 PM

Hello I am having the same problem on my NV53 laptop. I have an ati radeon hd 4200, 4 gb ram, 500 gb hdd, (windows 7 64-bit as well). I can bascially play the game on all high settings(without anti aliasing on anyways) and I am having the same problem as Acid Dent. I have tried changing settings around several times and I can say it is not unit shaders. I have also reinstalled the game and mod and it is still the same problem. It is usually only a few of the city state hoplites, but I have noticed it also does it with some Germanic infantry's torsos as well Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

**Agamemnon** · August 02, 2010, 02:58 PM

I have the same problem. I have this proble with the city state hoplites and have tried everything to fix it. It is run from Vanilla. I have windows 7, an AMD II dual core M300 processor, 3 GB of DDR2 RAM, and 320 GB of hard drive space (92.0 remaining). I added hoplites from Persian Invasion (another RTW mod) to BI (before Roma Surrectum), and had the same problem. What's the issue?

NOTE: I have RS v. 1.6

**Arbitio** · August 03, 2010, 07:15 PM

Been having the same issue for months myself. I've reinstalled rtw a few times and it still remains.

**Stívarðr Reynitré** · August 03, 2010, 07:22 PM

Had this one myself with Celt units in BI

**Solidarios** · August 04, 2010, 02:34 PM

Here is an image of the problem I am having, it's a little bit different though. The torso usually is flickering on and off. When I held down the print screen button though the skins stayed there like it should be, but lagged like crazy.