rujuro on 29/9/2005 at 02:20
Has anyone encountered this? I finally got my little test mission running in the standard T3 install, but I get some crazy visual artifacting (shows up in the OMs as well now). The screen blanks out when turning, and constantly shrinks down to just cover the corner of the screen, quickly flashing back to full size. I assume I've corrupted something, but if anyone else has experienced this and found a solution, I'd appreciate it.
ascottk on 29/9/2005 at 02:39
Quote Posted by rujuro
Has anyone encountered this? I finally got my little test mission running in the standard T3 install, but I get some crazy visual artifacting (shows up in the OMs as well now). The screen blanks out when turning, and constantly shrinks down to just cover the corner of the screen, quickly flashing back to full size. I assume I've corrupted something, but if anyone else has experienced this and found a solution, I'd appreciate it.
I've seen some weird stuff when I was experimenting with objectives in the conversation broswer. Nothing like this though. When I added choices on my objectives the camera would go out of world.
There'd be instances of totally whacked out geometry too but I attributed that to a bad build.
Most of the weird stuff I've seen has mainly been in the editor.
Are you using any custom textures?
rujuro on 29/9/2005 at 03:07
Not in this case, this was purely a simple experiment to see if I could run something from the original install. Think I corrupted something. It doesn't happen with the editor install. I also got something a little different when I changed the multisampling options, still screwy though.
New Horizon on 29/9/2005 at 03:51
This happened to me after I had some bad ram corrupt my main T3 installation. It was a bugger tracking down the cause at the time as I didn't know I had a bad stick of ram.
rujuro on 29/9/2005 at 13:17
Very interesting. I should definitely reinstall then. I've never had any other RAM issues, so hopefully that wasn't the cause of the corruption.
Dark Arrow on 29/9/2005 at 14:35
Could you describe it as a seriously bad "Hall of Mirrors" effect?
In that case I know a solution which doesn't involve reinstalling. Go to your Thief 3 saves directory and delete any .ibt files which have Kernell as part of the name. There should be three of them. Now try loading the level again.
rujuro on 29/9/2005 at 15:40
Not really, more a flashing on and off of the image, but only when making certain movements, and occasionally the screen draws everything smaller, and it appears anchored to the top left corner. Interesting about the .ibt's though, I'll give that a shot. I did attempt replacing the ones that were in the maps folder with the ones created when I generated my level .ibt. Didn't change anything.
The saves directory, huh? I'll have to check.
EDIT: There were no .ibt's in the save directory, I deleted the ones in the Thief - Deadly Shadows folder in My Documents, didn't change anything.
However, I reinstalled, and now all is well. Something definitely got currupted with all my screwing around.
