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Battlezone Universe => Battlezone 1 => Topic started by: Zorro on August 21, 2009, 08:34:22 PM

Title: Getting Battlezone to work again
Post by: Zorro on August 21, 2009, 08:34:22 PM
Hello everyone I use to play BZ often and its nice to see the community is still alive.  Occasionally I still play BZ every now and then.  However, I hadn't played it since I got a new computer with vista and I'm having problems with it.  I read the post http://www.bzuniverse.com/forum/index.php/topic,9723.0.html (http://www.bzuniverse.com/forum/index.php/topic,9723.0.html) that is here on this forum.  Seems to be the exact same problem or close to it (picture and description at the bottom of post).  I followed the link in that post and did everything the person suggested expect "turned trilinear filtering off" because I did not know what it is.  Has their been any updates on how people can get BZ to run on vista?

When I shoot my gun it lights up the ground like a checkerboard.  Another issue us that the text is cut up in the top left corner.  Very hard to read.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/dschc78/bz2.jpg)
Title: Re: Getting Battlezone to work again
Post by: bigbadbogie on August 21, 2009, 10:20:38 PM
Try turning off "3D Card"... if you haven't already.
Title: Re: Getting Battlezone to work again
Post by: Avatar on August 22, 2009, 01:47:02 AM
Well, that wouldn't be much fun would it?    :roll:

For the text did you try the Nvidia fix in the render.cfg file?

halftexel=1  //use this setting if your text is garbled (Rendition/Nvidea)

Trilinear filtering will be found in whatever control panel your graphics card has.  I turned my back on Vista but in XP it would be in Graphics Properties somewhere...   :)

To tell you the truth I'm amazed it runs at all under Vista.  Heck, I'm amazed anything runs under Vista...    :evil:

-Av-
Title: Re: Getting Battlezone to work again
Post by: Zorro on August 22, 2009, 03:05:00 AM
I tried the 3d card it did not work made my game lag.

Thanks Avatar on the halftexel=1  //use this setting if your text is garbled (Rendition/Nvidea) that took care of that problem.

I also played around with some others in the render file and got rid of the checkerboard affect when I fire.

The only thing that is still annoying me is on the radar.  Doesn't show West, North, East, and South on just a big white block (as you can see in my screenshot) and when the radar pings its a white block.  Other than that it seems to be running fine.  The radar isn't enough to stop me from playing :).

Thanks for your help!

P.S.  I couldn't find the Trilinear filtering anywhere under Graphics Properties
Title: Re: Getting Battlezone to work again
Post by: Dx on August 22, 2009, 12:55:45 PM
In the game options\graphics turn off shadows.
In the render.cfg set Trilinear = 0
Title: Re: Getting Battlezone to work again
Post by: Zorro on August 22, 2009, 10:45:16 PM
I don't have Trilinear in my render file
Title: Re: Getting Battlezone to work again
Post by: bigbadbogie on August 23, 2009, 01:14:01 AM
Add it?
Title: Re: Getting Battlezone to work again
Post by: Zorro on August 23, 2009, 04:38:59 PM
How so?
Title: Re: Getting Battlezone to work again
Post by: bigbadbogie on August 23, 2009, 10:13:59 PM
Copy and paste Trilinear=0 into the render.cfg file under the section D3D.

I'm flying blind here though dude... ... Dx? Does it only work in BZE?
Title: Re: Getting Battlezone to work again
Post by: Dx on August 24, 2009, 09:46:20 PM
Turn it off in the video cards control panel not render.cfg, my mistake.
Title: Re: Getting Battlezone to work again
Post by: Zorro on August 29, 2009, 02:54:22 AM
anyone happen to know where it is with vista.  I'm not very tech savy and I can not find it.