Problem with world map

[jkiskunas]

When I go into the game about 95% of the world is just white. I can still see the names of provinces and nations and can move armies and click on provinces but its just white, which is annoying, anyone run into this problem or have any idea how to fix it? I have already uninstalled and reinstalled.

[ModestCricket]

You mean there is terra incognita? Thick white clouds hovering over most of the map?

[jkiskunas]

Yea, for some reason its covering my entire map except for some places in Asia and Siberia, and some of my oceans are just black.

[Turboslav]

Well, if it's undiscovered areas, then you need to discover it?

[jkiskunas]

Lol no im not new to this game, I mean im playing as Luthuania and all of Europe is covered in icognita but I can see Japan. My own country is covered in it.

[ModestCricket]

What country are you playing as? Are the uncovered areas mostly around your country, or is it seemingly random?

If its just you can't see areas far away, that's perfectly normal. In the early portion of the game you don't know about far away areas, so you don't have a map for them. Either you can take the exploration ideas and build exploring units (the only ones who can move into the fog), or just wait a few years after moving around in those areas and they will uncover themselves eventually.

If its just random coverage over the map, yeah that's some kind of bug.

[Turboslav]

Originally posted by jkiskunas:

Lol no im not new to this game, I mean im playing as Luthuania and all of Europe is covered in icognita but I can see Japan. My own country is covered in it.

Oh, well I can't give you any advice then :P

[Broe]

and the old trick of deleting map cache dont help?

[Nord]

I belive this is a known bug that also plagues the demo. You would have better luck getting support from Paradox's forums as the devs are more active there.

[jkiskunas]

I can see the names of provinces and move troops and everything but its just white where I should see the actual provinces and borders, I tried deleting the map cache but when i go to my map folder it appears that they moved where it is stored.

[jkiskunas]

It basically seems like the Terra Incognita is just in the wrong place, I tried playing as a nation that I could see in my Poland game, Japan, and when I entered the game it was also covered and the terra incognita covered everything in my game, oceans are in some areas covered in black.

[Harper]

Sounds like a bug. Post on the Paradox forums?

[jkiskunas]

Tried posting on the paradox forums but its not letting me because my game is not registered, when I hit register game it gives me a list to choose from and the closest thing to europa 4 I see on there is the pre order, which I registered but it still wont allow me to access the Europa 4 forums. I feel like im probably missing something.

[Nord]

I looked on the paradox forums for you to find a fix. Try this

I get weird map graphics (fog of war/terra incognita/terrain textures)

Please make sure to update your drivers.
If you are running on a laptop it is quite common that the laptop has two graphics card. In some cases the drivers fails to determine the correct card to be used and ends up using the one with low performance.
Please make sure that you set your settings (check your graphics control panel) to use the graphics card with the best performance.

Sometimes it helps to remove your entire settings.txt after updating drivers/changing to use of the correct graphics card.

Navigate to and open "Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV\settings.txt"
Change "force_pow2_textures=" to yes or no.

[jkiskunas]

Alright update. The map bug is loading the discovered areas of the map in a different spot than the lables. It is like the map textures and map text are out of sync and need to be focused.... I am pretty sure this is a game glitch possibly with the graphics card version

[RepostBot5000]

Originally posted by jkiskunas:

Alright update. The map bug is loading the discovered areas of the map in a different spot than the lables. It is like the map textures and map text are out of sync and need to be focused.... I am pretty sure this is a game glitch possibly with the graphics card version

I think I solved the issue. I was having the same problem, as well as the icons in my game being off by about 15% to the right and down. I opened the setting.txt file in USER\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV

In settings.txt I changed "force_pow2_textures=" to no. I also changed the size of the GUI to match my resolution. Both of these options are visible from the top of the settings.txt file.

Hope it helps!

(Adding some tags i searched trying to find this: Europa Universalis IV 4 icons shifted right down icons in wrong place graphics issues graphics bug shifting icons map displayying wrong area)