New to Civ need help - I cannot see any of my units on screen.

[Grukkus]

Tweaked most of the graphical settings and still cannot figure it out. Units aren't being shown on the screen, even in tactical view. All I see are highlighted circles in tiles where the unit is currently on. Any help would be great, new to this series and I love it so far but seeing units is important to me espically when fighting. Thanks

[Satoru]

Post your system specs from Staem-help-System Information

[Grukkus]

I am currently running it on a setup with a 4.0 ghz i7 4790k cpu, an 8gb msi r9 390 gpu, 200gb SSD (where the game is installed), and 16gb of gddr5 ram on a 64bit Win10 OS.

[Grukkus]

The game runs fantasic, getting a steady 60fps on ultra settings. Again, just for some reason cannot see any of my units, or enemy units for that matter.

[Dray Prescot]

Have you chosen one of the map modes that hides units so you can see the terrain? Try choosing various map modes and see what happens.

[Grukkus]

I'll give it a shot thanks!

[Bullet Cake]

Have you just atarted a game ? you do know that you need to build units & you only start off with a settler & one warrior. The other AI players/human players are hidden in the Fog of War till you meet them for the first time.

Sorry not trying to insult your intelligence but you say you are new to Civ just wanted to make sure you are not having a moment like we all do at some point. I found the game very confusing the first time i played Civ V.

Also have you got the latest drivers because i think both AMD & NVIDIA released new drivers just for this patch. Can you see the units during the bench test ?
Try doing a verify game cache from the steam library.

[Rage]

Originally posted by Bullet Cake:

Have you just atarted a game ? you do know that you need to build units & you only start off with a settler & one warrior. The other AI players/human players are hidden in the Fog of War till you meet them for the first time.

Sorry not trying to insult your intelligence but you say you are new to Civ just wanted to make sure you are not having a moment like we all do at some point. I found the game very confusing the first time i played Civ V.

Also have you got the latest drivers because i think both AMD & NVIDIA released new drivers just for this patch. Can you see the units during the bench test ?
Try doing a verify game cache from the steam library.

Bullet, I am sure he understands that, what hes talking about is the "army men like character models" that are on the minimap that you control and they are animated, hes saying there are no character models, not even for the settler nor the first Barbie you get, but the icons that appear above the character models are there, just cannot see the animations of them fighting, I just ran into this issue today, and all drivers are up to date, and being its a fresh copy of windows with full updates my drivers and windows should not be the issues...……. so I am hoping there is a fix for this though

[Dfreshh]

I have this same issue and it’s freakin 2020!! Also the land doesn’t look like the trailers or as good as PlayStation. It looks like colored pencil drawing and ruler straight lines for the rivers

[Exemplar]

Originally posted by Dfreshh:

I have this same issue and it’s freakin 2020!! Also the land doesn’t look like the trailers or as good as PlayStation. It looks like colored pencil drawing and ruler straight lines for the rivers

you have strategic view on? it might be set in your graphic options.
https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/7so6dy/how_the_hell_do_you_turn_offon_strategic_view/

[plaguepenguin]

Strategy view is an alternative to the standard map view that simplifies what you see, for clarity's sake. You can toggle it on and off with one of the buttons in the row atop that mini-map in the lower left corner of the main map.

One of its simplifications is to give you unit icons rather than the standard animations. Is that what you are seeing, a simple drawing of a bow and arrow, for example, instead of that small animated group of archers?

Another of its simplifications is pure discrete hexagons with bold borders instead of a seamless transition. Again, the terrain features and any resources a hex might have are represented by icons, not realistic depictions of the terrain or resource.

If this describes what is being seen, then the problem is that you somehow got strategy view toggled on. Just toggle it off if that suits you better.