Terrain black problem

I have win8.1, nvidia gtx ti.

I just bought the game and when I start a new game i see trees and people but the terrain is black.. Help please!

 

The first thing to check is that your game is using your NVidia, and not using your computer's integrated processor (I often have to set that the first time I run a new game). If you haven't done that, you can do so via your NVidia control panel. Make sure Clockwork Empires.exe is forced to use your NVidia card.

 

how do you do that?

 

Assuming you're on a Windows machine, you can actually right-click on the desktop. One of the items in the context menu should be 'NVidia Control Panel'.

Once you're in there, select 'Manage 3D settings' on the left.

Then, on the right, select the 'Program Settings' tab.

From the first drop-down menu (1. Select a program to customize), find Clockwork Empires.exe. If it's not there, you need to click that 'Add' button, and specify the install path where the .exe is.

Then, in the second drop-down menu (2. Select the preferred graphics processor for this program), make sure it's set to your NVidia processor, instead of the other options.

Save and quit, next time you run CE, it should be forced to use your NVidia processor. Hopefully that was the issue.

 

ok btw i have only 1 card on the computer which is a nvidia gtx. and i`m sad to say it did not work =(

 

We've just eliminated one potential source of problems (which is that sometimes programs try to use your integrated processor rather than your NVidia). At this point, you need to look into more common issues; make sure your drivers are up to date, etc. It might be helpful for you to post a screenshot or dxdiag.

 

here is my dxdiag

 

my nvidia drivers are up to date as well

 

Oo, one thing you should try is verifying your installation. There's a guy on the Steam forums for CE that described your exact problem, and the Dev suggestion was to verify his game cache, because his installation was apparently missing some files.

Specifically, check to see that deferred.inl is not missing from your shaders\ directory

From that post:

 

What you can also try is to delete the file at %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Gaslamp Games\Clockwork Empires\config.xml. Steam should re-generate it, and it may fix your issue.

(The terrain issue you describe can occur from Terrain Quality getting turned from something other than 'High' or Ambient Occlusion getting turned Off. Deleting this file should reset those values.)

 

bingo. deleted the said file and it works thanks!

 

i tried to do this to see if my game would run faster but still it is slow