Graphics Glitch

[Abatis]

Anybody ever get a glitch where a rough, red circle looking sort of like an icon meant to be an explosion or something, pops up in every hex that your opponent moves into(regardless of your LOS to the hex)while watching the replay? It goes away when your phase begins. I play pretty much exclusivly in 2D normal view, with hex contours on,- and that's the view it was happening in. This is happening in a WF scenario with an opponent that I've had flawless EF gaming with..I don't yet know if we have different versions- waiting on email to find out. Anyway, was just wondering if this is a known occurence! Anybody?

[Krink]

I play in 3d zoomout, and once in awjile, when I try to fire at a unit I can't see, the red circle with a line through it shows up. But it goes away when I make another move. I've never seen it in a replay though. Maybe it's a 2d thing.

Cheers,
Ray

[Gnrl Confusion]

Hi Brian,

It sounds like your getting the famous red x, or an offshoot, that we used to see in the graphics business years ago from clients who didn't have enough memory in their computers to see certain graphic types, usually tifs or bmps. I suspect your computer has used up what's left of your RAM and is using the virtual memory during the replay.

So. How much RAM do you have? 256 isn't enough. If 512+ I doubt that's the issue.

Next. What kind of video card? Have you updated the drivers?

[Abatis]

Hey General,

I have 512 RAM, and a NVIDIA Geforce MX420 with the most recent drivers installed...what think you? :)

[Abatis]

Well, I think you might have been right General- The glitch didn't appear this last replay and nobody did anything any different really, except my machine was rebooted in between. I bet despite having 512 RAM, it probably was the culprit.

[Gnrl Confusion]

Yeah, a lot of people don't know this, but RAM fragments just like your hard drive. A reboot will clear evrything up, just like the defrag utility will for the hard drive. There' software out there that will do it too, but a simple reboot is probably the best way to go. 512 should be plenty, otherwise.