As you all know the current map is rather icky.Its absolutely impossible to find the coastline with the color scheme its using and it slows the game down considerably if you have less then a gig of ram.

With the help of texmapgui.exe by Fridlekh (http://community.istaria.com/Web/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=6429)I made some replacement files

I have made 4 new version for you to enjoy.

A version with 512x512 tiles and 256 colors. 24mb
http://www.ancientorder.org/Downloads/512fullcolor.zip

A version with 512x512 tiles and 128 colors. 10mb
http://www.ancientorder.org/Downloads/512lowcolor.zip

A version with 768x768 tiles and 256 colors. 53mb
http://www.ancientorder.org/Downloads/768fullcolor.zip

A version with 768x768 tiles and 128 colors. 21mb
http://www.ancientorder.org/Downloads/768lowcolor.zip

unzip into your horizons folder. It will get replaced with the original files when the game patches.