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Earth is an ocean world?

July 13, 2014 7:24:59 AM from Galactic Civilizations III ForumsGalactic Civilizations III Forums

Apologies if this is well-known or otherwise answered 100 times elsewhere, I swear I looked before posting:

When I start as the humans, Earth is an ocean world.  Like, 100% ocean.  Where's my house?  Where's Vegas?

I thought I remembered seeing Earth's actual continents in an earlier Alpha build (or on the dev stream, maybe).  Am I goin' crazy?

 

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Reply #1 July 13, 2014 12:25:37 PM
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I think lots of people have been having this problem, not only with Earth. I'm sure a fix is incoming...!

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Reply #2 July 13, 2014 1:30:32 PM
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I find this very curious, since it looks like only some of us are seeing this. Since I am not seeing this, I have to wonder if it is somehow tied to what hardware we are using and the way GC3 uses it.

While I am aware that there is a lot of work to be done with the graphics in GC3, perhaps there is something they missed in some of the quirks there are in using the many variations of hardware we have. Or, perhaps there is something to the warning to have the latest GPU driver installed. DirectX level 11 is supposed to keep programs like GC3 from having to be sensitive to the various hardware combinations we could use, but it is even possible to mess that up as well.

 

So, the first question is to the GC3 Dev team: Is this a known problem?

The next question is to moltobenny: Are you running with the most current (non beta) GPU driver? (I had some problems with the latest GeForce beta level GPU driver and had to back it off.)

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Reply #3 July 13, 2014 3:03:21 PM
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maybe in the Future Earth is an ocean world  .   I'm not having this issue so far. only played about 70% through one round. 

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Reply #4 July 13, 2014 3:16:28 PM
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Yes, start Terrans with aquatic world colonization! And big Co2 pumping factories!

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Reply #5 July 13, 2014 4:27:51 PM
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Quoting Lucky Jack,
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The next question is to moltobenny: Are you running with the most current (non beta) GPU driver? (I had some problems with the latest GeForce beta level GPU driver and had to back it off.)

 

Yessir.  GeForce 337.88 (released 5/26/14), new GTX660 card.  I'd be amazed if it was really a GPU issue, since it's an ocean world on the planet/production map too, not just in the galaxy map.  But who knows?

 

The FROGMAN knows!!!

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Reply #6 July 13, 2014 5:47:13 PM
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Quoting moltobenny,
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Quoting Lucky Jack, reply 2The next question is to moltobenny: Are you running with the most current (non beta) GPU driver? (I had some problems with the latest GeForce beta level GPU driver and had to back it off.)

 

Yessir.  GeForce 337.88 (released 5/26/14), new GTX660 card.  I'd be amazed if it was really a GPU issue, since it's an ocean world on the planet/production map too, not just in the galaxy map.  But who knows?

 

The FROGMAN knows!!!

Can you post a picture of what you are seeing? And I have a GeForce 640 with the same driver level.

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Reply #7 July 13, 2014 5:57:48 PM
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Quoting Lucky Jack,
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Can you post a picture of what you are seeing? And I have a GeForce 640 with the same driver level.

 

Sure.  BTW, I start the game just by hitting "new game" and then leaving everything default.

 

Oooh, what a pretty blue planet!

 

 

Dude, where's my land masses??

 

 

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Reply #8 July 13, 2014 6:20:58 PM
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I wounder if some of the game files got corrupt during  update???

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Reply #9 July 13, 2014 6:31:41 PM
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I've reinstalled twice from Steam, with identical results.  I installed to the D drive, though.  DUN DUN DUNNN?!???!

Will try accepting the default.

 

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Reply #10 July 13, 2014 6:56:14 PM
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Quoting moltobenny,
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I've reinstalled twice from Steam, with identical results.  I installed to the D drive, though.  DUN DUN DUNNN?!???!

Will try accepting the default.

 

 

Nope, reinstalled to C drive, default location, same thing.  Dang, I thought that was gonna do it.  

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Reply #11 July 13, 2014 8:02:37 PM
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Not sure why your having this trouble. On mine it shows earth perfectly.

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Reply #12 July 13, 2014 8:06:31 PM
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Not sure why your having this trouble. On mine it shows earth perfectly.

 

Well, that's why they call 'em "bugs"...  

 

Is there somewhere more "official" I should log this problem, or are the devs pretty good about picking up on issues in here?

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Reply #13 July 14, 2014 11:46:44 AM
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You could report it to the support site : https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/Default/Tickets/Submit/Index 

 

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Reply #14 July 14, 2014 12:16:26 PM
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Done!  Thanks.

 

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Reply #15 July 14, 2014 1:06:53 PM
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Quoting Schaefespeare,
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You could report it to the support site : https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/Default/Tickets/Submit/Index 

 

And the devs are pretty good at picking up problems from here.

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Reply #16 July 14, 2014 1:10:36 PM
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Well, then we've got 'em surrounded!

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Reply #17 July 14, 2014 8:27:53 PM
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I've been on a trip since beta 3 became available, and today is the first time I've had wifi during that time, so I'm coming in late on this.  

I was able to download and fire up beta 3 (quick start) just minutes before leaving on my trip, and saw the same thing reported by the original poster.  Today I was able to download 3.1, and the problem persists.

I have an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M with the GeForce 335.23 driver.

On 3.1, shortly after selecting one of the ocean tiles on Earth, the game crashed.  My debug.err says the crash report was sent to Steam, so I won't bother to post it here.

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Reply #18 July 17, 2014 10:51:43 AM
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The person assisting me with the ticket found something that fixed the issue, if anyone else is having it:

 

Go to My Documents/My Games/Galciv3 and delete the "prefs.ini" file.  That did the trick, and brought back Earth's precious continents.

 

Not sure why, but it did.

 

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Reply #19 July 22, 2014 5:21:49 PM
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Thanks, that fixed it for me too.

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Reply #20 July 29, 2014 1:59:54 AM
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It must be all that Global Warming and Sea Level rise that all those scientist keep crying about on TV.

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Reply #21 July 29, 2014 4:40:40 PM
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Nope. Can't happen. The North Carolina state legislature passed a law, saying that the oceans weren't rising.  And, well, if it's the law, then...

 

 

(yeah, I know the NC law isn't quite that, but it's close, and fun to poke at them for being such obvious dolts)

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Reply #22 July 29, 2014 6:54:14 PM
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And, well, if it's the law, then...

... they can get court injunctions against illegal increases in sea level? Or maybe sue those melting ice caps for illegally dumping water into the seas? Let's go get some lawyers; if the sea level has to pass through all that red tape before it can rise it'll never happen, right?

 

In case it's not clear, the above is meant to be funny rather than rational.

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