Hi,
I played a couple of scenarios very successfully, and then, I noticed that all the animations for the buildings disappeared. Which means that it now looks like all buildings, when placed, are deserted. They continue to function as they are supposed to (production continues, and you can still right-click to consult the information like staffing for the building and production rate), but now you do not see the staff working there, or, if any goods are ready for transportation (the 'quick-look' aspect of it).
I have checked my settings, and they are very simple, so no problem there. I am wondering now if I should not just re-install the game, which would be relatively easy. However, I thought I'd report this issue in case you would like to know about the potential bugs in the software. If there is any fix for this, though, please do let me know. :} Thanks, Suzanne

Running the game on Windows 8. As I said, it worked fine for a couple of scenarios, and then, suddenly, they were gone. Strange. :}

Make sure you run the game as admin (right-click game's shortcut and select "Run as Administrator").

I had the same issue, as have some others. It may be related to the "slow god animations" issue which is somewhat game breaking. At any rate, with no building animations my simply went away after a reboot and has never returned. As suggested, I always run as admin as well. Not sure if either actually did anything for the issue but it seemed to.

I got the same issue as well... but sadly, I haven't found a fix for it (yet). Disabling visual themes as well as that desktop thing (can't remember what's it called...) does bugger all as well, and running the game as or not as an admin doesn't help either.

I seriously hope someone has some kind of a fix for this. And hopefully, they'll present it here soon, too...

Just an update on this: I reinstalled the game finally, and things seemed to have improved. Running as admin did not seem to make any difference. It has been running fine since then, and I have played a couple of really long custom maps/campaigns from Zeus Heaven. Just seems to be a ghost in the machine. :}

Thanks for replying, everyone.

Popular issue, REBOOT helps. No, they are not related, they are two different problems.
"Unofficial Poseidon animation fix patch (widescreen edition)"
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