City icon missing

[mlees]

I thought I saw it mentioned around here somewhere, but now I can't find it...

I was having a memory problem, so I did the trick of renaming the Video and Music folders to NoMusic and Novideo.

Now the city icons on the main map are missing. When I mouse over a city, to mouse tip changes, so I can right click on it and still interact with it. (The little green garrison dot still shows on the map.)

Renaming the folders back to original names did not restore the icons... even when starting a brand new campaign.

What do I need to do to fix this?

[Temple]

If you set LOWANIM=1 like it mentions in the readme you do lose the city icons. I had this happen to me. It's a bug that supposed to be fixed. 

[mlees]

Ah! That's the ticket!

I removed the LOWANIM=1 statement from my .ini file, and the icons came back.

Thanks!

(For those confused, please reference this thread:) tm.asp?m=1313777

[ericbabe]

That is what was going on.  We have fixed this in the forthcoming patch.

[Hard Sarge]

Confirmed, you lowres mode, you can see the cities

[spruce]

Be carefull - following can also happen =
 
- if you cycle trough your city building icons by clicking on the "right arrow" you can move out of your buildings array and you will not see ANY building. If you go to other cities - no buildings are shown. If you click the "left arrow" the buildings come back.
 
Very confusing - but not really an issue if you know about it ...

[Hard Sarge]

I don't follow this one ?

the cities should just go back to the starting city ?

is this seen in low res mode or normal game ?

[spruce]

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

I don't follow this one ?

the cities should just go back to the starting city ?

is this seen in low res mode or normal game ?

when you are on the main map you can cycle trough the city buildings without going to the city detail screen - there are small arrows that guide you trough to cycle. If you go to the fartest right - you won't see any buildings in the city cycle - even if you go to another ciyt on the main strategy map. If you cycle ot the fartest left - the city building icons come back ... confusing if you don't know

[Hard Sarge]

okay, I follow now, yea, that is showing what is in the city, to be honest, if it circled back to the starting buildings, I think it would be more confusing

[ericbabe]

In fact, when I first programmed it it did cycle back but I found that very confusing...it made it seem as though some cities had endless buildings.

[spruce]

Eric, Sarge
 
you guys are right, but the confusing thing is that you can cycle to a view where not one building icon is displayed. Would be more logical if the arrow doesn't cycle to a "100% black field" - if you know what I'm saying. But the most confusing is that when you go to another city (without cycling back) it neither shows the city building icons ... and due to this I had restarted one of my games in the beginning.
 
Altough I must say it's a minor nuisance, and I think you guys should put it way down on your priority list cause most times I'm checking out the city detail screen to check things out.