Video and images issue

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I just installed GalCiv III, and everything was working fine for the first 2 days.  Then there was an automatic update from Steam and since then there seems to be a serious video glitch.

1) On the diplomacy screen the image of the home planets is completely gone - I can still see the ranking of civilisations and can select them there to talk to them, but the visual is gone.

 

2) when ships enter into battle there are no visuals or cinematics

 

3) Ship designer - nothing is shown when I enter into the ship designer in the main window

 

4) Custom ships designed don't show up as icons in fleets

 

Game is still working and can be played, but the loss of all these visuals is really annoying!  Any suggestions?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Have you tried verifying the integrity of the game cache? Make a clean reinstall of the game?

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I have the same problem plus which star base images don't show while building/updating them

How do you check cache integrity?

Thanks.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

In your Steam library right click on GC3, select Properties, then Local Files tab and there click on Verify integrity of game cache.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Hi Rhonin,

I tried that and no joy. Reckon I'll have to reinstall when I get the time.

Thanks.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Soccernut46, reply 4

I tried that and no joy. Reckon I'll have to reinstall when I get the time.
End of Soccernut46's quote

Just in case you do not know this.  For a complete reinstall there are other directories you need to delete of rename, pretty sure they are listed in support trouble shooting guide.

I had an issue where just using windows to uninstall (or steam) did not solve it, had to go in and manually del directories. BUT a regular reinstall may work just fine for you

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I'll try a full re-install when I have a chance as well and update this thread.  Glad it's not just me having the problem. Any Stardockers out there that know what's the problem?

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Just to clarify, my issue was WAY back around 1.0  I have no issue like this currently with 1,.6