Water in lakes not showing up

[angel0405]

Hi, I am playing this game on a Macbook Pro with an AMD Radeon Pro 5500M and an i9 CPU (the properly cooled version) and I now lakes don't display. Before on my mac with Intel Graphics, the entire UI would disappear. Now when zoomed out I get a white square box where the lakes containing water (temperature is up, atmosphere is up etc) should be.

Every computer I throw at it, there seems to be a game breaking graphics problem.

[some moron]

I don't have any graphics problems.
I've got RX480

[TheTripleAce3]

I've seen this problem caused once by going above a certain altitude, try making a lake on the lowest part of your map.

[SkiRich]

Originally posted by angel0405:

Every computer I throw at it, there seems to be a game breaking graphics problem.

Have you tried a windows PC?
Its a known issue that macs have graphical issues with this game, and its usually the older macs or the macs that upgraded to bleeding edge O/S version or the macs with substandard vid cards.

[icarus40]

I have a late 2017 iMac Pro with a Radeon Pro Vega 56 8 GB card. I have never seen the water surface in lakes and have experienced the weird white outlines of lakes at higher altitudes. I have played about 6 games some with mode and a couple with vanilla mode, but no difference. I tried to play a new game on the PC emulator for Mac "Parallels", emulating Windows 10 with even weirder UI white patches with lakes. So, I seriously enjoy the game but don't continue too much after I have lakes trees and opened domes.

[icarus40]

BOOT CAMP FIXED MY WATERLESS LAKES! I installed Windows 10 with Boot Camp instead of Parallels and VOILA! On the game I had just played into the 600th turn on Mac OS, I was able to build lakes that filled quickly . I had pretty much maxed out the terraforming I could do without lakes. I recently reinstalled Rome II on my Parallels Windows in anticipation of Rome: Total War Remastered coming out. It ran with some difficulty even at ONLY the lowest graphics settings. You can see by my iMacs stats, I should be able to run any game with excellent graphic results:
Model Name: iMac Pro
Model Identifier: iMacPro1,1
Processor Name: 8-Core Intel Xeon W
Processor Speed: 3.2 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per Core): 1 MB
L3 Cache: 11 MB
Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
Memory: 32 GB
BUT NOOOO!
For years I have used Parallels because of the ease of switching back and forth on the fly between Operating Systems and because of Parallels pushing the notion that Windows on Boot Camp did not improve the graphics enough to justify the inconvenience. I figured I had nothing to lose, I used Boot Camp to install a second instance of Windows 10 on the same hard drive and am now able to run Rome II at Ultra graphics levels and now able to run Surviving Mars with Lakes and better quality graphics than I was able to run on Mac OS Big Sur. So take heart Mac Users, try using Boot Camp if you have a version of Windows to install. PS: I can still run Windows on Parallels for doing low graphics intensity work unrelated to gaming.