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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: Deadbeat Engineer on June 30, 2010, 03:36:15 am

Title: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: Deadbeat Engineer on June 30, 2010, 03:36:15 am
Ok, so I literally just got this new laptop today, and I've only played 2 or 3 games on it so far, but there's this odd visual glitch. I'm running Windows 7 with i5 core, 4 gigs RAM, ATI mobile Radeon HD 5400 series on a Dell Studio 15 laptop. The adv. mara has the electricity texture all over it's body in a flesh color. Here's a few screenshots.

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_mA9hWg9geUc/TCqr_3QSXTI/AAAAAAAAAA0/ulgpn2Z9EWo/s800/shot0001.jpg)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_mA9hWg9geUc/TCqsAYFosII/AAAAAAAAAA8/tg3n_Zzpoxk/s800/shot0005.jpg)

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_mA9hWg9geUc/TCqsAd6u1sI/AAAAAAAAABA/p8DIylw4xgc/s800/shot0008.jpg)

Looking at them closer now I can see that it's the texture itself all jumbled up.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, I think it's really cool. I just want to find out what's causing this.
Title: Re: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: Plague Bringer on June 30, 2010, 05:20:23 am
skinned mara. cool.
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Title: Re: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: Demolution on June 30, 2010, 05:22:20 am
Could be a corrupted pk3? Maybe after one one of the updates?
Title: Re: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: David on June 30, 2010, 10:00:14 am
The pure check *should* prevent you using borked pk3's, but it does look like it could be.

Maybe it's an unpure server and a extra / borked pk3 somewhere?  Looks like the right texture just rotated.
Title: Re: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: CreatureofHell on June 30, 2010, 10:44:28 am
That is a pretty epic mara!
Title: Re: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: gimhael on June 30, 2010, 11:45:50 am
There are also some problem reports on the ioquake3 forum with messed up textures on the latest AMD drivers. Maybe this is a driver bug.
Title: Re: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: Deadbeat Engineer on June 30, 2010, 02:38:46 pm
There are also some problem reports on the ioquake3 forum with messed up textures on the latest AMD drivers. Maybe this is a driver bug.

Thank you gimhael :D

And this was on the 1.2 Pure official US Trem Server 1

Yes, I remember reading about how the ATI drivers for Win7 used to not have opengl for them. It's probably that. All my map pk3's and such I just copied from my main desktop to the laptop. I guess it is the drivers. It's not that I'm really complaining about it, I think it's really cool, I just want to be able to fix it if need be.
Title: Re: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: DeadMeat on June 30, 2010, 05:25:46 pm
same effect after updating to the newest ATI driver. some more textures are messed up as well on several maps.
Title: Re: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: your face on June 30, 2010, 06:20:45 pm
odarn, that baby is just ready for the campfire. *salivates*
Title: Re: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: SPK on June 30, 2010, 09:17:14 pm
The last good version of ati drivers that worked fine for me is the 9.12.
Try with them.

Later versions give me problems with open GL.

Good luck
Title: Re: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: Deadbeat Engineer on June 30, 2010, 10:41:38 pm
The last good version of ati drivers that worked fine for me is the 9.12.
Try with them.

Later versions give me problems with open GL.

Good luck

Thank you. I'd keep it if this was the only glitch, as all of the adv mara's body jolts around like it's electric patch, it looks really cool. But, there are other textures that are borked, so I think I have to revert to that (after I make a demo of that awesomeness ^_^).
Title: Re: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: F50 on July 01, 2010, 01:31:39 am
just make sure you make that demo into a proper video while you still have the bug, the demo might just get fixed in a working build.
Title: Re: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: Deadbeat Engineer on July 01, 2010, 01:58:41 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b_wgZp22cg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b_wgZp22cg)

There's the video. I'll put up the demo file in a bit. Watch the first few seconds and it'll tell you where to skip to get to the most crazy mara action. It'll also tell you where Lecavelier's breakdancing is. :D
Title: Re: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: Demolution on July 01, 2010, 02:52:18 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b_wgZp22cg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b_wgZp22cg)

There's the video. I'll put up the demo file in a bit. Watch the first few seconds and it'll tell you where to skip to get to the most crazy mara action. It'll also tell you where Lecavelier's breakdancing is. :D

The demo won't show anything. Your files are the borked ones, not everyone elses. :P
Title: Re: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: Deadbeat Engineer on July 01, 2010, 06:02:44 am
I know that, but a few people told me to put up the demo anyway. I don't know why though...  ???
Title: Re: Odd mara texture on fresh install.
Post by: kevlarman on July 02, 2010, 02:51:36 am
the last working version of catalyst is 10.4. 10.5 and 10.6 have this bug.