Weird problem with Arx demo

X-Finity on 4/3/2002 at 11:30

The game plays perfectly without any problems except...for some odd reason i cant see the screen! It looks like i am in the main character becuse whenever i move or stand still for a while, its like i am "in" the main characters face and im seeing all the polygons and stuff flash infront of my face. ive been fooling around with the video settings and still same problem.

Grundbegriff on 4/3/2002 at 22:39

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Originally posted by X-Finity
its like i am "in" the main characters face and im seeing all the polygons and stuff flash

I have the same problem. Here's a screencap of some of the flickering polygons:
<img src="http://earlymodern.com/games/images/arx_graphics_glitch.jpg">
Card is an ATI Radeon 7500 with the latest drivers, which work with every other game I've tried.

If anyone knows what causes this or how to solve it, please help!
/me hunts around for the :urgent: and :desperate: graemlins....
Here, this'll do: :(

X-Finity on 4/3/2002 at 23:27

YES!!!! thats the EXACT same problem I have...i cant post a screen cause i got no server or anytyhing but thats EXACTLY what it looks like

btw: i have the same card

Dark Angel on 4/3/2002 at 23:45

hmmm....logic says that its probably due to the card then ;)

Zerker on 5/3/2002 at 03:20

Funny though, because I have the old Radeon, 64 meg DDR, and the demo has run like a Dream... I guess try alternate beta/official drivers?

xman on 5/3/2002 at 10:49

Edit CFG.INI and set ATI = 1 at the end of the file.

Grundbegriff on 5/3/2002 at 13:45

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Originally posted by xman
Edit CFG.INI and set ATI = 1 at the end of the file.

Tried that immediately. No cigar.

Here's another image, just for fun:
<img src="http://earlymodern.com/games/images/arx_graphics_glitch2.jpg">

Grundbegriff on 5/3/2002 at 15:12

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Originally posted by Zerker
I guess try alternate beta/official drivers?

New win98 drivers for the 7500 came out a couple of weeks ago. They're available (http://www.ati.com/support/products/pc/radeon7500/win98/radeon7500win98drivers.html?cboOS=Windows+98&cboProducts=RADEON+7500&cmdNext=GO%21) Right Here

Unfortunately, they don't fix the problem. It would probably go away with some tweaking (using (http://www.rage3d.com/radeon/r3dtweak/) Rage3DTweak), but I don't know exactly what to tweak when the character model is visible from within.... :sigh:

<small>Au secours, Arkane!</small>

Saam on 5/3/2002 at 20:54

*bump* to get everyone to see this.

xman on 6/3/2002 at 11:36

Well... Since this thread seems to be about graphic cards problems, here's my (small) problem... The bilinear filtering does not work very well with my GeForce 256 DDR with Detonator 27.30 (OS: Win XP pro). Here are examples :

Inline Image:

http://w3.ensil.unilim.fr/~maritaud/DNLD/fumee.jpg

Inline Image:

http://w3.ensil.unilim.fr/~maritaud/DNLD/arx.jpg

I cropped the screen captures to emphasize the problems and reduce file sizes...

As you can see, the smoke is very pixelated (that's not a big problem but I suppose it should be smoother, shouldn't it?).
Also, in the main menu as well as with the small loading screen, the stretching of 640x480 images in the 1024x768 resolution is not filtered. Raf assured me that it should be filtered. But it's not on my system.
Does anyone have these images bilinearly filtered or does anyone have the same visual results as mine?