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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: radgh on February 24, 2008, 04:58:04 am

Title: Something is horribly wrong
Post by: radgh on February 24, 2008, 04:58:04 am
http://s117.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/RadleyGH/tremulousblows.flv&t=1203829091&os=1&ap=1 (http://s117.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/RadleyGH/tremulousblows.flv&t=1203829091&os=1&ap=1)

That's what the game looks like after installing it.

My friend has the same video card (7900gs) with the same driver/DX version.

Somethings wrong.

WinXP Pro SP2 32bit
2gb ram
Athlon x2 5200+ (2.4ghz dual core)

Any suggestions?
Title: Re: Something is horribly wrong
Post by: Death On Ice on February 24, 2008, 05:24:57 am
Looks fake, but coolish. I'm afraid I can't help, but you / your friend sounds like Bleek (A player)
Title: Re: Something is horribly wrong
Post by: radgh on February 24, 2008, 05:52:41 am
... No its not fake.
Title: Re: Something is horribly wrong
Post by: Superpie on February 24, 2008, 06:02:42 am
Try installing the latest drivers, not just the same ones as your friend - also the latest Windows updates. If that doesn't work start disabling graphics options until the game looks normal... that's all i can suggest  :-\
Title: Re: Something is horribly wrong
Post by: PIE on February 24, 2008, 06:19:07 am
Is this a tremulous only problem?.. how is the temp in your case.. i've seen that type of thing when the card overheats..
Title: Re: Something is horribly wrong
Post by: TinMan on February 24, 2008, 07:23:25 am
Send me your hacks.
Title: Re: Something is horribly wrong
Post by: Odin on February 24, 2008, 09:43:14 am
Quote from: Odin
Looks like your video card is about to go up in smoke.
Title: Re: Something is horribly wrong
Post by: radgh on February 25, 2008, 05:02:12 pm
Quote from: PIE on February 24, 2008, 06:19:07 am
Is this a tremulous only problem?.. how is the temp in your case.. i've seen that type of thing when the card overheats..

Yes its a tremulous only problem... The only thing I've ever seen that had even remotely the same problem was with Doom 3 - which used the same blue launching window. But doom 3 would crash during that window with an OpenGL error. Just getting a patch fixed that, though.

Quote from: Superpie on February 24, 2008, 06:02:42 am
Try installing the latest drivers, not just the same ones as your friend - also the latest Windows updates. If that doesn't work start disabling graphics options until the game looks normal... that's all i can suggest  :-\

I have the latest drivers, beta drivers too. They don't seem to fix it though. Tried disabling the graphics options offered by the Nvidia CP but no luck there either. Can't adjust in game options due to obvious reasons...

Quote from: TinMan on February 24, 2008, 07:23:25 am
Send me your hacks.
I figured a video couldn't be photoshop'd (http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=7273.0) (See post #5) but apparently that yields no support from some members here too.

Thanks to everyone else who tried to help, though. Seemed like a fun game but I'd rather just take some shrooms and go play Super Mario 64 with a dusty cartridge.
Title: Re: Something is horribly wrong
Post by: Odin on February 26, 2008, 02:02:11 am
Install your correct OpenGL drivers. Don't use the beta drivers.
Title: Re: Something is horribly wrong
Post by: blood2.0 on February 26, 2008, 05:08:57 am
that is really weird was it alway like that?
Title: Re: Something is horribly wrong
Post by: cowrecked on March 12, 2008, 08:46:35 pm
I have the same exact problem on this computer.


Windows XP Home SP2
AMD Athlon XP 2800+
GeForce FX 5700LE, nvidia forceware 169.21 drivers
2 x 512MB DDR
Title: Re: Something is horribly wrong
Post by: Archangel on March 17, 2008, 02:52:32 am
nVidia has had a lot of issues with older cards in their latest driver releases -- I run a 5200GTX myself, and had issues when I had to run Windows for about a week -- use an older version of Forceware, should  fix everything.