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Topic: Problem, help appreciated...
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Swampthing
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posted 02-09- 02:17 AM
  
Reinstalled FSDOE after quite some time of not playing it and now i'm finding some strange things. Running under glide i get a box effect around the gunsight, especially in the spit, I also get this box around explosions. It's like your seeing the whole texture including what was meant to be transparent. Quite frankly it's annoying. I could like with the explosion box, but the one on the gunsight is very distracting, especially when half the gunsight disapears occasionally. Plus i'm getting tracer smoke in the cockpit and it also has this box effect. I've tried the Voodoo2 reference DX7 drivers and the default ones from creative and get it with both. I'd run on TNT or my Geforce, but the runways always looked like crap on the TNT. Anyhow anyone have any clue what's causing this?Hopefully I can get this fixed so I can finish that P61 black widow i started a LONG time ago.....
Thanks
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Yardstick
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posted 02-09- 04:31 AM
Sounds like you are running out of texture ram (on-board video memory). If you have an older video card, particularly an 8 meg V2 the more textures you have in a mission (i.e. different plane types, especially user created add-ons) the greater your chances of this happening.I would suggest running missions with fewer different aircraft models or picking up a new video card be that another V2, a V3 or one of the TNT2 or GeForce offerings. Pound for pound Voodoo cards are better for SDOE as Glide is appreciably quicker than D3D. ------------------
Yardstick painted this
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Swampthing
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posted 02-09- 12:54 PM
That never occured to me that that might be the problem as I've run the game in the past and never had the problem. Plus i'm using about the same skins, the only difference is the new planes etc in plane pack 5.2, other than that i'm using the same install as before.One thing that never dawned on me though was to use the Glide wrapper for my TNT2U....Hmm, i'll have to try that, only thing that's stopped me from using the TNT2 was the blurry runways, but this might fix it. Thanks bro, ya got me thinking now. IP: Logged |
Swampthing
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posted 02-09- 01:40 PM
Well after some further testing I found out the problem. It isn't a memory issue, it is in fact the latest beta build patch. If i run the game without the patch these problems are there, but as soon as i run it with, there they are. Evidently something has changed to affect this in the builds since the last one I used before shelving FSDOE.IP: Logged |
Nat
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posted 02-09- 09:30 PM
again, not wanting to step on anybodys toes, I'd suggest not using the beta of the 1.5.1. patch, and just using the 1.5, I can't quiet explain the problems I had anymore, but I do know that it caused me alot of grief, even after uninstalling it, doing a complete un-install and re-install with only the 1.5 patch sorted out what problems I was having (I guess form your message you were using 1.5.1. beta)We're all hoping that after the contest is finished that it'll maybe get finished  ------------------
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Swampthing
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posted 02-09- 11:06 PM
Yeah, guess I shoulda been more clear, i was using the 1.5.1 beta. That was the patch that was causing all the graphics anomalies. When I run only the "official" patch, there aren't any probs. That was what sort of led me to beleive it was a glide issue with that specific patch and not a video memory issue. The other evedence was the fact that running in D3D on the voodoo2 boards did NOT give the anomalies either. So I sorta think it's a bug with glide and that patch. Though i REALLY wish this thing would run on any nvidia card without the weird fuzzy areas around runways and paths. Guess it's a good thing I kept my V2's in the system after I got the geforce card.IP: Logged | |
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