Eicke Posted December 6, 2002 Share Posted December 6, 2002 I have a problem with graphics, some things don't show up corectly or not at all while playing. 1.The 'Done' button and time show as a white box. 2.un-identified guns are missing some textures that show up white. 3.Shadows of vech.'s are white. 4.Target lines show up white. There are more but that should be enough to describe the problem. It's not that one of these problems shows up during play, it's all these. Example screens of the problem. Some of the things I have tried to correct this issue are: re-install the video drivers, installed 3D-Tweak(disabled Z Mask), re-installed DX8.1. Still getting the problems. System Info Win XP Pro P3 933 512-133 ram Readon 7200 video SB live 5.1 X-Gamer sound [ December 06, 2002, 12:02 AM: Message edited by: Eicke ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueAceman Posted December 6, 2002 Share Posted December 6, 2002 Same problem with me, i try to post some pictures but seem to me they are all gone, check my post texture problems cmbb-cmbo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easytarget Posted December 6, 2002 Share Posted December 6, 2002 i just installed a Ti200 and when i first started up the game i had antialiasing on causes all the menus to come up blank or with just white boxes where text should of been turning it off cured the problem [ December 05, 2002, 09:32 PM: Message edited by: easytarget ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eicke Posted December 6, 2002 Author Share Posted December 6, 2002 My card settings have either On or Application Prefrence, it was already set to Application Prefrence. I haven't had any problems with the menu's, it's mostly the interface , targeting and white shadows. Although it didn't work it was worth a try, thanks Easy for the reply and help. [ December 06, 2002, 12:01 AM: Message edited by: Eicke ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWB Posted December 6, 2002 Share Posted December 6, 2002 Did you install any mods? WWB 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Carr Posted December 6, 2002 Share Posted December 6, 2002 Try turning anti-aliasing off and other goodies your wizbang video card may have. I was playing around with the settings on my video card, Gforce TI4600, and found that turning certain things on made text and other things disappear from view. Good Luck. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eicke Posted December 6, 2002 Author Share Posted December 6, 2002 WWB - No mods installed just CMBB and v1.01 patch. Jack - I tried the anti-aliasing, my card sets to anti-aliasing 'On' or 'application preference' which is the default. I have 3D-Tweak intalled and played with the setting for a couple hours last night. I can't say I tried every possible combo, but changes only seem to make things worse not better, sometimes a lot worse. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easytarget Posted December 7, 2002 Share Posted December 7, 2002 whenever i need new drivers or tweak programs i go to http://www.guru3d.com/ if this is an nvidia chip set based card i'd be real surprised if you didn't have a setting to explicitly turn off antialiasing since this is something i experienced trouble with only yesterday with a new nvidia chip set based card, and turning off antialiasing fixed it, i'd definitely find a way to turn it off rather than just leaving the app to make the determination - because in this case it's entirely possible CM is not handling it correctly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eicke Posted December 7, 2002 Author Share Posted December 7, 2002 ATI is Nvidia's compeditor, I want to turn off the anti-aliasing but the control panel that comes with my card doesn't seem to have 'Off' as an option. ATI's site says it can be turned off in the control panel. It would seem they have changed the control panel, as my panel doesn't look like the example they have on their site, and yes the control panel I use is from ATI. The 3D-Tweak prog also give either 'On' or 'App Pref'. You maybe right that CMBB is not handling this correctly. Maybe some one BTS can answer this question. I am going to re-install CMBB without the patch and see if I get the same problem. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easytarget Posted December 7, 2002 Share Posted December 7, 2002 i don't know if this is the one you tried, but you might want to check out Rage3d Tweak - it claims to have the ability to change registry settings w/o you cracking open regedit (something some folks just rather not do) check it out here: http://www.3dchipset.com/utilities/ati/tweaking/r3dtweak/index.shtml 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueAceman Posted December 7, 2002 Share Posted December 7, 2002 Well i try everything clean install OS 98me, via 4in1 4.35 ati drivers catalyst 2.4 , cmbb with patch , some mods but still no good; still having same white issues with texture with both games , all others previous drivers works ok, any others solutions ? please ? thanks all 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted December 7, 2002 Share Posted December 7, 2002 Uh... if previous drivers work OK, why not go back to them ? I was going to check this out myself today with a Radeon 8500. The problem may be the latest Catalyst drivers (2.4 ?). Driver releases aren't perfect. What may work in an earlier driver release may get broken in a newer one (just ask the NVidia users). I'm not sure which Catalyst driver is the optimum one to use with CM, but apparently 2.4 is just going to give you heartache if you continue to use it. If you don't want to uninstall 2.4, then there probably isn't a solution for you. Drivers can break things that can't be tweaked with any registry hack, tweak utilities, etc. Drivers are often updated for performance and/or compatibility purposes. Often these attributes are at cross-purposes with one another - i.e. some performance tweaks cause more compatibility problems and some compatibility/bug fixes make the driver slower. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eicke Posted December 8, 2002 Author Share Posted December 8, 2002 Per Schrullenhaft's advice I removed the Catalyst 2.4 drivers, then installed Catalyst 2.3 drivers and the correct control panel for this driver. White spaces are gone. I have only tested this a little but everything looks good sofar. Thanks Schullenhaft Good Work!!! Doh, I should have of thought of that myself :eek: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easytarget Posted December 8, 2002 Share Posted December 8, 2002 good to hear! and ppl wonder why game developers are always screaming "it's the drivers damn it, it's the drivers" [ December 07, 2002, 11:06 PM: Message edited by: easytarget ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueAceman Posted December 8, 2002 Share Posted December 8, 2002 Thanks all for solutions ,going back to catalyst 2.3, so far no white spaces ... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leit Posted December 8, 2002 Share Posted December 8, 2002 easytarget: "and ppl wonder why game developers are always screaming "it's the drivers damn it, it's the drivers" ---------------- They screaming because OpenGL functions are the same for any Operation system. But what graphic devices do when resive processor instructions is a qwestion for drivers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparler Posted December 11, 2002 Share Posted December 11, 2002 ATI catalyst 2.5 drivers have the same problems, best stick to the 2.3 version. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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