Guest Mike Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 I've had some trouble with my PC over het last week & finally got it fixed last night. however my CMAK graphics are shot all to hell!! the symptoms started as all the change-able text on the screen flickering very rapidly (ie the scores, morale & any othe text that might alter during the game), and the main screen being completely white, with a few vague shapes where vehicles should be. The turn "played" properly apaprently - ie sound was OK (as far as I could tell) and the clock counted off the 60 seconds. I did note that ricocheting shot seemed to be accurately depicted a few times too. I reloaded CMAK, reapplied the 1.01 patch, and the symptoms changed - the flickering writing was OK and map landmark names were displayed OK, but the screen was still snow-white. this game was set in hte desert on a fine day. I loaded another PBEM game - set in the desert in a dust storm, and the whole map was "dust storm" coloured. There were definite 3-D rectangular shapes where trees and vehicles should be (I could scroll around and watch the recrangles change aspect). I updated the video driver to the latest one from NVidia & it made no difference. I'm using a nVidia GeForce 420 on a Win 98 SE Celeron 1300 PC with 380-odd MB Ram & have never had any problems with any CM-series game graphics before. I have no mods loaded. any help would be greatly appreciated!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 What version of DirectX do you have installed ? If you don't have the latest, you can download DirectX 9.0b here (it is 35Mb for this copy though). What motherboard do you have ? Have you installed the chipset drivers for it (VIA, SiS, Intel, ALi, etc.) ? What was the "problem" that you had and what exactly did you do to fix it ? You may want to uninstall all of your video drivers, go back (temporarily) to the default SuperVGA and then reinstall the latest drivers (though you'll want to reinstall DirectX first). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 The problem I had initially was a failure of Windows due to causes unknown. Then when I had Windows going again, Outlook Express 6 wouldn't dial up, and when I was going through trouble shooting with my ISP & deleting all the communication software prior to installing it again Windows crapped out again - thsi time it was something to do with ZoneAlarm interfering with the setup of my ethernet card that connects to my cable modem - Windows started fine in Safe mode. that was the problem that was finally fixed yesterday, so last night I was resetting my connection specs. I have no idea what the MB is - a fairly generic one I suspect & I won't be able to check it until I get home tonight, so I'll check Direct X then too. Ta. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalin's Organ Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 DirectX solved it - thanks for hte reminder - I had forgotten about it and hadn't considered it at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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