The graphics are all messed up.

[Hugh Manatee]

It's been awhile since I've played and I figured I'd load in a quick game, but whenever I start the thing the opening screen is mostly black except a little 3D bit at the horizon(like there's either no lighting or textures in the scene), there's an outline of a menu visible but I can't tell what I'm clicking...

Any idea what's going on?

[vladikus]

My advice would be to reinstall the game, update to the latest patch, and then make sure your graphic drivers are updated. If they are already up to date, I would suggest reinstalling the drivers anyway.

Also, I would go to the preferences->video menu in-game and restore default settings, and then alter them based on your card and everything. I hope this works.

[jimkehn]

I had this happen when I installed the game on my Vista laptop. I havent updated video drivers but I think they are the latest. Never could figure out what the deal is.

[Hugh Manatee]

yeah, latest drivers, reinstall, no dice, guess the game just doesn't ike geforce 4 integrated....

[vladikus]

I hate to give up. You might try changing the compatibility mode for the Dominions shortcut so that it runs under Windows XP compatibility mode.

In XP, I right click the icon, go to properties, then choose the compatibility tab and then run the program.

[P3D]

Had the same problem. I assumed that the drivers were updated for my Summer 2008 laptop with Vista. They were not. I did the update and now dom3 runs without problem. So, unless you manually updated the drivers assume they are out of date.

However, I could run it windowed even with the not updated drivers. "Reduced" mode, manageable interface but still screwed up battle replays.