Area of Effect RINGS not showing up (or police/fire vehicles)

[tomfoolery_79]

When attempting to place a school, fire, police, etc building.  The "area of effect" ring does not show up, so I have to guess as too the best placement.  However, once it's plopped, the ring appears.  They also appear in data view too.  Also, if a fire breaks out or something, fire engines and police vehicles, although "there", are not visible.  I recently installed the CAM mod, but so have thousands of others, so I'm not sure...  Thoughts??

[Andreas]

Maybe your graphics options are set to "low"?

[joelyboy911]

I know exactly what this is. (hehe, I hope I'm right after this...). It should be in your graphics settings, and the option is 'Visual Effects' If this is set to low, you won't see the direction arrows on ploppable lots, and the effect radius, as you said, is not generated. Try setting that setting to medium or high. If it's not that, then there is probably something more sinister at play...

[tomfoolery_79]

Wow, that was easy.  Thanks for the help!!

[tomfoolery_79]

On a side note, I have an awfully beefy gaming system to be dumbing down any settings, but when I'm zoomed in to zoom level 2-3 and then try and scroll, my frames per second drop to 3-5.  I know this is probably another topic for a different thread.  2GB RAM, E6850 dual core and EVGA 8800GT....

[westamastaflash]

Tom - I would recommend setting shadows to "low". See this thread: http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=9386.0