Med graphic glitch after put [io] file_first = true

[Junaidi83 de Bodemloze]

I never modding deep on Med 2, so basicly i am dumb as any new user when come into Medieval 2 , so today i plan to revisit and decide to test some CAI mod that i never used before and i never know its exist in Medieval 2 game, lets call it XAI cai mods, and realy bad ai germanicus (this is one i remember see first in Call of warhammer mods ). So i decided to unpack the kingdom campaign and try to install mod to play some old vanilla campaign, well after follow the instruction i am bit stumble around this part

1) Go into the directories of all (read: NO EXCEPTIONS) installed modifications for M2TW (by default: ~\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\mod of your choice)Then add these lines to the top part of the config (.cfg) files:
[io]
file_first = true
disable_file_cache = true

Yes , i do create cfg file and bat file, lets say for america campaign, when i start the campaign or custom battle suddenly i experienced this graphic bug



Then i decided this time to fresh install america expanssion and try again unpack and creating new bat and cfg, only this time i i dont install any mod yet, what made me suprise i still suffer this kind of bug when i put line of

[io] file_first = true

So what the cause of it ? i see on other mod they also put [io] file_first = true on their cfg , and it still fine, if i remove [io] file_first = true then the graphic became normal, now my question is

1. what cause the problem ?
2.Do i must put [io] file_first = true into cfg line ?

I will very glad if someone can tell me the answer

[lolIsuck]

I have the same graphic glitch for vanilla and some mods. No idea how it happened, thought I screwed something up by accidently deleting a file. I was just going to reinstall M2TW but I delayed that as I'm too lazy to copy all my mods to a different place.
If someone knows the cause of this it would be helpful though.

[danny X]

I think it's something to do with the strategy.sd and/or shared.sd files in data/ui. I cant remember if you delete the sd file variants or the xml file variants.

Make back-ups just in case i'm wrong.

[Gigantus]

Danny got it nailed - it's the box graphic bug. Get my Bare Geomod and copy all ui\*.sd files (6 with XML) plus shared,strat and tooltips (6 with TXT) from the data\text folder into your mod.

[Junaidi83 de Bodemloze]

Okay i already test it Sir Gigantus and its worked like charm , err i just copy Ui only do i also need to copy paste entire text folder ?

[Gigantus]

Technically you only need the three STRING.BIN file versions of the txt files I listed (if you haven't got them already). Copy the TXT versions as well if you don't have them - they will come handy at later stages of modding.

The other files in that folder are files that Geomod needs for reference. If you do a mod from scratch then I would recommend to use Bare Geomod as a base - it has all the common pit falls removed that the original still has (ragusa port crash, mongols winning, this block graphic bug, square projectile smoke, missing dense jungle model etc).

[Junaidi83 de Bodemloze]

Thanks for the advice Sir Gig