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FieldNinja101st Sep 23, 2015 @ 7:32pm
Unexplored Campaign Map Is All Water!
I am using Windows 10 but I doubt this is it. I used to play and it was fine. Unexplored land showed the map. I'm using no mods, ect. I have the latest AMD drivers and I run the game in DirectX11.

Help! Am I the only one having this new problem. (I verified my intergrity and it always says all files verified correctly but still downloads like 11 mb. I have done this twice today)
Last edited by FieldNinja101st; Sep 23, 2015 @ 7:32pm
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FieldNinja101st Sep 23, 2015 @ 7:47pm 
EDIT: I want to clarify that it looks like the unexplored water tile all over the place but I can still move my units on the what suppoed to be look like "map" land. I have searced this problem and tried deleting the Shogun 2 in The Creative Assembly folder but it has not fixed the problem. I am playing this game on Ultra so...idk, any suggestions?
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FieldNinja101st Sep 23, 2015 @ 8:02pm 
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=523656831

and

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=523656970
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rory.b.p Sep 23, 2015 @ 8:31pm 
You say you are using no mods but just to rule out 1 possibility... have you ever run any mods on shogun 2, for example if you in the past ran a mod via steam unsubscribing DOES NOT REMOVE said mod, you have to do it manualy.

Past mods aside this could be anyone of a number of other problems, you say you updated your drivers recently? did anything occur during the update that may have caused the update to fail part way through? do you have graphical issues in any other games (it could be corrupted video drivers).

Have you tried changing the resolution in game settings (on the off chance it fixes it)?
Have you tried playing via DX9?
What settings are you playing on? is it possible you don't have the video memory for said settings? (you have given us practically no details on your set up).

Do a test by setting everything to its lowest settings and launching in DX9 (if you change to DX9 via the in game menu you need to relaunch the game for DX9 to take effect), if you can see the land properly in said test then just systematically increase all your graphical settings until such a time it turns back to water and in the process discover what in particular is causing the problem.

If all else fails the answer could simply be Windows 10, adopting a Windows OS early has never been nor will it ever be a good thing as they always screw with everything early on.
Last edited by rory.b.p; Sep 23, 2015 @ 8:32pm
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FieldNinja101st Sep 23, 2015 @ 8:56pm 
My specs are on my profile but I will post them here because I do not expect people to examine my profile for that information.
Specs:

Intel Core i5 4460 Quad Core 3.2Ghz

Graphics Card: Radeon 270X

Ram: 8GB (4GBx2)

Harddrive: 2T

Power Supply: 600W

I can be more specific on the specs if need be, but I'm 100% positive that is not the issue.

This has never been an issue before until I upgraded to Windows 10 with my new AMD drivers. I didn't play the game for 2 months so when I launched it the other day, the battles(at least the historical ones, I didn't test custom/campaign ones) were loading but only a black screen.
People on the forum recommended to people who had the same problem with those latest "nonbeta" drivers to download the beta (which I hate doing, but I wanted to play my game, so...) in any case. I played my historical battles and tonight decided to start a campaign.

(I have NEVER used mods of Shogun 2...never!)

I have tested both DX9 and DX11
-Changed resolution
-Everything you have mentioned (And more) I have tried

All my games(literally I have tested every single one) on my steam library works just fine on Windows 10. I adopted because we have to upgrade sooner or later and I gave it a go. No complaints.

I will continue to do some tweaking and see if I can solve the issue.

I'll be back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgPePk3kGZk
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FieldNinja101st Sep 23, 2015 @ 9:02pm 
Ok, I re did that "test" you recommended and I finally see the map...
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FieldNinja101st Sep 23, 2015 @ 9:10pm 
Ok, so...I can max everything out on DX9 but no matter what my graphics settings are on DX11, the map is like that.

This has never been the case, so what has happened? Did my system get fried? Do I need to run the DX in redist? I have no clue anymore. I'm a Mother Prussian. :/
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FieldNinja101st Sep 23, 2015 @ 9:21pm 
Last and Final Update:

I have checked the official forums and it seems I'm not the only one. The only fix from the sounds of it is to just use DX 9 or try to reinstall the game. Hmm, we will see, won't we?
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rory.b.p Sep 24, 2015 @ 3:50am 
Originally posted by FieldNinja101st:
Ok, so...I can max everything out on DX9 but no matter what my graphics settings are on DX11, the map is like that.

This has never been the case, so what has happened? Did my system get fried? Do I need to run the DX in redist? I have no clue anymore. I'm a Mother Prussian. :/

I suspected as much it seems for many people that a combination of AMD and DX11 is causing various crashes and problems.
I don't know what the cause is but I suspect it is something new CA/Sega are doing with their games because Rome II had similliar issues with certain AMD cards on launch.

I regularly switch between DX11 and DX9 for this game (mostly to match whatever the person I am playing with in multi is using as often running different version of DX can in multi can cause issues), I wouldn't say it is catastrophic that you can't use DX11 it is bloody annoying but the DX9 is perfectly serviceable.
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Dratheos Sep 2, 2022 @ 12:17am 
it happened to me
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