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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: soulmine on January 27, 2008, 05:24:35 am

Title: Graphics.
Post by: soulmine on January 27, 2008, 05:24:35 am
Hey, I gave a problem.
The graphics are REALLY messed up. Here are some pics:
(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l281/soul-mine/trreemmcopy.jpg)

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l281/soul-mine/treemmm2copy.jpg)

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l281/soul-mine/tremmm3copy.jpg)

How can I fix this? I tried reinstalling, it didn't do much.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: Oblivion on January 27, 2008, 05:43:18 am
Looks a bit fake to me.  I've never seen anything like this before.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: X-20 on January 27, 2008, 05:47:08 am
Looks psychadelic o.O
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: Odin on January 27, 2008, 06:02:28 am
Looks like your video card is about to go up in smoke.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: Thorn on January 27, 2008, 06:13:41 am
Looks like removed textures with edited notex image + a bit of distortion + lame photoshopping.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: mooseberry on January 27, 2008, 07:05:11 am
Looks like photoshopping.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: soulmine on January 27, 2008, 07:03:31 pm
Oh my goodness, it's real!
Can you tell how to fix it? Why would I photoshop this, anyway.
My graphics card is FINE, because I can run TF2 and Half Life 2.
If you are gonna comment on some photoshopping that I didn't do, please don't post.
I don't need that trash here.
Thanks.


P.S.: Do you want more picture to prove my authenticity?
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: mooseberry on January 27, 2008, 07:07:39 pm
Looks like you're missing some pretty basic textures, but I've never seen it displayed like that. Reinstalling would probably just be easiest.

EDIT: Oh, you allready tried reinstalling... try downloading lots of textures?
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: soulmine on January 27, 2008, 07:08:49 pm
I tried that. Didn't do much.

EDIT: ok. Where could I download some basic textures?
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: blood2.0 on January 27, 2008, 07:15:17 pm
delete the tremulous folder and reinstall tremulous
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: soulmine on January 27, 2008, 07:23:10 pm
delete the tremulous folder and reinstall tremulous



I tried that. I thought it would help. It didn't. Thanks for your help anyway. :)
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: kevlarman on January 27, 2008, 08:12:18 pm
Looks like your video card is about to go up in smoke.
what he said.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: IOA on January 27, 2008, 10:55:27 pm
To be honest with you, I actually envy your problems! xD.

It'd be fucking sweet to have purple walls...

But yeah, I know of people who would definitely photoshop for attention...
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: Taiyo.uk on January 27, 2008, 11:00:41 pm
Check video card temperature. Too hot to touch? Repair or replace it's cooler.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: soulmine on January 27, 2008, 11:18:47 pm
Like I said, my video card is fine. It can run TF2 without a problem.
Looks like there is no solution. =C
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: Taiyo.uk on January 28, 2008, 12:51:03 am
Has this always happened or did it start recently? What changes were made to your system before this problem started?
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: soulmine on January 28, 2008, 02:04:47 am
Finally! A helpful response!
A while back, Tremulous ran fine. I haven't made much changes to my computer...
I have the same graphics card, sound card, system, etc..
I installed other games, but that probably wouldn't do much. Any help on this would be great.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: Odin on January 28, 2008, 05:09:47 am
Then OpenGL is what is causing it. TF2 and HL2 are both DirectX.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: soulmine on January 28, 2008, 05:57:38 am
Then OpenGL is what is causing it. TF2 and HL2 are both DirectX.

What can I do?
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: Taiyo.uk on January 28, 2008, 10:50:22 am
(re-)install the latest drivers for your video card.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: asc on January 29, 2008, 07:59:52 am
Gotta say guys - I get much weirder stuff than that, and my video card is fine. Never with a native open GL game, but the effects look real familiar - like random or semi-random data was loaded in the place of textures.

http://img174.imageshack.us/my.php?image=discoinfernoeo0.jpg
http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=technicolorturretflarexk1.png

Of course, that's a D3D game running under cedega. But still.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: Odin on January 29, 2008, 08:40:30 am
Looks like your video card is about to go up in smoke.
what he said.
what i said.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: Lava Croft on January 29, 2008, 12:56:31 pm
Looks like your video card is about to go up in smoke.
what he said.
what i said.
But most likely he just needs to install non-broken drivers.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: soulmine on January 30, 2008, 02:14:16 am
My drivers aren't broken..
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: Taiyo.uk on January 30, 2008, 03:49:59 am
How do you know? Do other OpenGL applications show similar artefacts?
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: tuple on January 30, 2008, 11:40:52 am
This may be worth trying.

In your home directory there is a tremulous (maybe .tremulous) directory.  Not the one in C:\Program Files, but in C:\Documents and Settings\(your username)\  search for it, its in Application Settings or some such.
I forget precisely where (perhaps someone else here knows and can point us to it?).  Look in this directory\base\ and find autoexec.cfg.  Rename and/or delete that file.  In fact, rename and/or delete that whole base directory.  Again, NOT the one in C:\Program Files\, but the one in your home directory that holds your game settings.  The autoexec.cfg file would survive a reinstall cause it is not with the program files, and is a settings file for your user.

(not a windows user, so forgive me for mangling its location :) )
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: E-Mxp on January 30, 2008, 12:48:30 pm
http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=technicolorturretflarexk1.png
That looks awsome!! ;D
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: + OPTIMUS + on January 30, 2008, 02:41:55 pm
Looks like photoshopping.

nahh i got this noob, never try to escape from the neat eyes of a graphic designer >:-(

(http://turbo.lovebox.hu/users/15/91/0009/pic-02692441-087d24.jpg)
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: mooseberry on January 31, 2008, 02:23:30 am
f****** genius.  :D
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: soulmine on January 31, 2008, 04:23:17 am
Looks like this is a new problem.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: jr2 on January 31, 2008, 08:48:52 am
Looks like a GFX card prob.  Do try un-installing then re-installing the drivers... also, try another Q3A based game, see if that also has problems.  (eg, Urban Terror 4.1, Warsow, Alien Arena, World of Padman, Rocket Arena, Open Arena, etc)
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: kevlarman on January 31, 2008, 07:16:51 pm
Looks like a GFX card prob.  Do try un-installing then re-installing the drivers... also, try another Q3A based game, see if that also has problems.  (eg, Urban Terror 4.1, Warsow, Alien Arena, World of Padman, Rocket Arena, Open Arena, etc)
you need to rethink your definition of q3 based
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: jr2 on February 02, 2008, 09:14:14 am
Looks like a GFX card prob.  Do try un-installing then re-installing the drivers... also, try another Q3A based game, see if that also has problems.  (eg, Urban Terror 4.1, Warsow, Alien Arena, World of Padman, Rocket Arena, Open Arena, etc)
you need to rethink your definition of q3 based

Woops; sorry.... Warsow is q2 based.  You're right.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: Demolution on February 14, 2008, 03:26:38 am
The location tuple meant was this(at least on my pc, which runs Vista):
C://Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Tremulous/Base
Good Luck,
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: Lava Croft on February 14, 2008, 06:23:00 am
Actually, Warsow runs on an engine that is a combination of Quake2 and Quake3, hence the name Qfusion.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: Kaleo on February 14, 2008, 07:02:21 am
I sometimes get the same problem in Oblivion...
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: DHRUVINATOR on February 14, 2008, 01:29:43 pm
Very weird.
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: Death On Ice on February 15, 2008, 12:22:44 am
Very unhelpful.

What kind of gfx card do you have?
Title: Re: Graphics.
Post by: Dracone on February 15, 2008, 11:42:21 am
Doesn't happen anymore since I updated my drivers but I used to get an issue where minimizing and maximizing again would sometimes make very specific things all psychadelic colored and stuff. But it would only be like one player in the game or a single wall.

Like I said though, updated my drivers. >.>