Graphical Error...

[slade]

Hey guys, I am a newbie to this place, but may I say when I dusted off the old BZ2 disc i was absolutely stoked to see such a big community out there  .

I have a strange error I am encountering in BZ2 in any game mode map mod or anything....whenever I play, after about 5 minutes or so all the terrain textures disappear, also, the interface including options menu when I press ESC have all the buttons but no text inside... no idea what is going on and I never recall this ever happening...

Wondering if anyone could shed some light...

Thanks alot

slade

[Warfreak]

Well, 1st off which patch do you have installed. 2nd what is your video card and its drivers. We get that info, anyone here can help you.

[Steeveeo]

Sounds like you're using a modern card (probably 8800GT or 9600GT, right?)

If you scroll down you see that I have already come across this error previously here.

NVidia's drivers now lack support for older games like BZ2, and I have yet to run across an older driverset that works.

I have found that turning your sky detail to [LOW], or on some maps even [NONE] will rid you of this error.

[slade]

8800GT correcto...


I did some messing around with my settings and I haven't narrowed it completely, but it is related to certain settings in the graphics... never the less i got it working, from what I can tell, it has nothing to do with object detail or particle detail...

Once I have it narrowed down I will post up exactly what causes it 

[bigbadbogie]

I think we already determined that is was the newer nvidia drivers on the cards - i have an 8800gts with older drivers and it plays bz2 fine

[TheJamsh]

that and /nodxt right?

[GSH]

/nodxt is only if you have an *ancient* card.

-- GSH

[Steeveeo]

/nodxt is only if you have an *ancient* card.

-- GSH

Or this error. Without /noDXT my text, cursor, and half the graphics disappear when the error occurs.

I did some messing around with my settings and I haven't narrowed it completely...

As I said, its a Skydome issue, turn sky settings to [LOW] or [NONE] (everything else full) and see if it still happens.

[Ego - Nikolas]

Here check all my posts on this link

http://www.bzuniverse.com/forum/index.php/topic,7699.45.html

[Steeveeo]

Here check all my posts on this link

http://www.bzuniverse.com/forum/index.php/topic,7699.45.html

Your suggestion about Underclocking via Rivatuner does not work in the least.

I clocked mine down by 100 mhz, then 150, then 200, then eventually I was down 50% in each clock! No effect other than making the graphics card reallly slow...

Just thought I should point that out.

Also, I just now noticed you said you were using an 8800GTX, not a card known to have issues with BZ2, so far its only the 8800 and 9600 GT (not sure about the 9800 series yet)

[bigbadbogie]

theres a 9800 series now?? jesus its going fast!!!

[CmptrWz]

I can check the 9800 GX2 for BZ2 compatibility. My new computer has two of them right now (QUAD SLI!), and I just dumped PB3 onto it.

*checks*

Works fine.

[Red Devil]

*Quad* SLI???     I just got an AGP ATI 3650 and I thought I was in heaven.  Seems that I am merely content. 

[Commando]

CmptrWz, the Nvidia issue takes a few minutes to kick in.  It doesn't occur immediately after launch.  It only seems to happen if the sky is not set to None.

[CmptrWz]

Between *checks* and "Works fine." I had 30 min of running around with everything set to max.