Ops Movement phase doesn't show units, timer isn't shown

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Ops Movement phase doesn't show units, timer isn't shown

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Friends,

two problems to report on my recently re-installed CCLSA (using the last patch, of course, on a Win7Pro system in windowed mode):
1. During gameplay there is no timer to be seen, only to white blocks appear to show the space where the timer used to be in happier times. The counter itself works, as games and wikt the amount of available time used up. Those white blocks (i would say they show the space where the timing information should be) pop up when I press the begin-button.
2. Having started a small campaign (Hell's Highway, the Veghel counter-attack) to get used to playing Close Combat again, playing as Axis. The movement phase at the beginning does not show any unit, neither my own nor the enemy's, which makes the idea of attacking pretty useless (how do you attack with units you cannot move because you can't see them). After calculating whatever battles are offered with some Kampfgruppen that suddenly appear from out of nowwhere. Is this correct? It seems to happen only with this campaign...

Stefan

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RE: Ops Movement phase doesn't show units, timer isn't shown

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Looks like it might be a video card / driver conflict. What video card is in the machine and what driver version are you using?

First I'd suggest checking for an updated video driver to see if there's a newer one that resolves the problem. You can also try playing the game in both windowed mode and full screen mode, to see if it works one way and not the other. This could help give a clue as to where the problem lies.

Steve

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RE: Ops Movement phase doesn't show units, timer isn't shown

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Steve,

if it were a graphics chip driver issue (which I doubt, as the driver installed is the latest available from Windows Update for my inbuild chraphics chip (Lenovo Sl510 laptop)), how could that explain the missing unit icons, that are to be seen in every other campaign, apart from "Hell's Highway"?
Switching from windowed mode to full screen, or changing resolutions, doens't change anything.

CC PITF runs without any issue, btw.

Stefan
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RE: Ops Movement phase doesn't show units, timer isn't shown

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Sorry, I was going by your screenshot of missing timer, which looks like it is a problem displaying those specific sprites. Have you installed any mods for the game, or made any changes of your own to the game graphics files (GameGadg.gdg and ScrnGadg.gdg?)

The Hell's Highway Campaign appears to start one turn too early (0000 hours instead of 0600). There are no units arriving before 0600 so that's why you're seeing a blank turn. You can modify this yourself by loading the campaign file in the scenario editor and adjusting the starting turn, or we'll address it in a future update.

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RE: Ops Movement phase doesn't show units, timer isn't shown

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Steve,

the only mod I use is Zon's metal mod to change the look of the tanks and vehicles. No other changes.

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RE: Ops Movement phase doesn't show units, timer isn't shown

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update:

They "Timer doesn't display"-problem is definitely connected to LSA. Using Cathartes' GJS-mod, the timer shows. As that mod uses the same game, it cannot be an issue of obsolete graphic card drivers (otherwise the timer should show in the modded game either). Switching back to stock LSA, the timer is gone, as already reported.

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If the GJS mod timer shows correctly, the only real possibility is some difference between the gadgets. GJS is using the exact same code as LSA, so there is no difference in the code being executed.

I will have to look at the latest GJS mod gamegadg.gdg file to see what the difference is. My guess is that there is some very minor size difference that is causing the video driver to have to stretch/scale one of them and not the other. This would, as I said, still be an issue with the video driver, as this doesn't happen on most systems. But it may be something we can fix relatively easily by re-sizing the graphic in LSA so your system doesn't have a problem with it.

I will take a look and let you know what I find out.

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RE: Ops Movement phase doesn't show units, timer isn't shown

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Well that theory is out, since the timer and force morale graphics are the same in GJS as LSA.

Can you try it with stock 'out of the box' LSA and see if that makes a difference? I am wondering if something in the 'metal mod' is stepping on memory and causing the graphics not to display properly.

Steve
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