GFX Problem

Hermie · Post by **Hermie** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:56 pm

Whenever I try to play Illarion, the part of the screen which shows the terrain etc. is entirely pink and some of the graphics that should be in that frame show transparently in the text box.

I'm pretty sure that it's likely to be a problem with my gfx card, but is there anything else that could be causing this problem?

Thanks for your time.

Moirear Sian · Post by **Moirear Sian** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:16 pm

If you already tried deleting the client, re-downloading and -installing, I must agree it's probably something that has to do with the gfx card.

Sorry, I have no idea what could be causing it other than that.

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:16 am

Use the search button, as this has been brought up before.

Wait, I will do it for you.

EDIT

http://illarion.org/community/forums/vi ... ink+screen

Follow Rackere's advice on this one.

Hermie · Post by **Hermie** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:12 pm

I've updated my drivers and I have the latests direct x.

Cassandra Fjurin · Post by **Cassandra Fjurin** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:42 pm

try other, Older drivers for your graphics card.

Llama · Post by **Llama** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:15 pm

Go run type dxdiag; and follow the tests.. it will check everything...

Hermie · Post by **Hermie** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:47 pm

I've tried with old drivers and new drivers, I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling, redownloading and I did the dxdiag which didnt find any problems.

Confuzled.

Thalodos Artemetus · Post by **Thalodos Artemetus** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:03 am

Hmm, maybe you need a new computer?

Moirear Sian · Post by **Moirear Sian** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:24 am

Did you change any hardware since the last time you were able to play Illarion (without this issue), or are you using a different computer?

It would also be good to know what specific gfx card you've got installed.

Hermie · Post by **Hermie** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:51 pm

I upgraded my hard drive, motherboard, cpu, and ram.

I'm having a gfx problem with Rome Total War too, but I think thats a problem with the installation. Since all my other games work fine. Although I did have some problems with the Sims 2 which were similar to the problems I'm having with Rome TW.

My gfx card is a 128mb Radeon 9600 se series.

Moirear Sian · Post by **Moirear Sian** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:57 pm

I went browsing the Tech support forum.

I have some good, and I have some bad news.

The bad news first: It seems like a bunch of people have encountered this problem. It also seems like there's no real solution for it; I've found none and nobody has ever brought a solution against it as far as I could see, except for what has already been posted in this thread here, basically.

The good news: Everybody who reported it on the Tech support forum, basically had an ATI ##mb Radeon ####. Meaning you could experiment if you still have another, perhaps older card, and see if it still works with that. Furthermore, it could be that a certain version of drivers specifically works, and the others don't.

I'm sorry, but I found no decent solution for this. What you could do is do a forum search for "ATI 128mb Radeon 9600" in the tech support section, read up who else posted this issue, and try to contact them and find out if/what they found as a solution to it. Which leads me to other bad news, I'm not sure if any of the people who did post about it actually still visit these forums nowadays.

Is it just my impression, or is this a "bug" of the client of sorts that's worth looking into?

Hermie · Post by **Hermie** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:27 pm

Well, I've played Illarion on this card before. It's just since I got my new stuff (mentioned on previous post) and re-installed windows that the problem has occured. Same with Rome TW.

I'm thinking I may want a new gfx card anyway, especially since Obivion looks like it'll need uber amounts of shizzle to run. If I do get everything and Illarion still doesnt work, I'm going to be very annoyed with my computer, and may have to shake my fist at it!! AND NOT IN THE GOOD WAY I USUALLY DO!!!

Anyway, I'll just try some stuff and if I get any results I'll post here.

Thanks for the help anyway

I love you,
Rob.

Calen Plane · Post by **Calen Plane** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:28 am

The problem may be that your graphics card is too good for illarion to run it. (It happened to me so I know it can). Right click the desktop and click on properties. Then click on the settings tab and click the advanced button at the bottom of the screen. It should take you to the graphics card driver configuration window and click on the troubleshoot tab. Toy around and see which settings allow you to see the terrain screen. I hope this helps.

Pendar · Post by **Pendar** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:40 am

Download ati catalyst control centre,
Its a nifty application all ATI users should get anyway but it will also let you basically disable your card with minimal fiddeling.
I run an ati radeon pro 64mb "yeah yeah i rock", i have not had this problem with illarion but have solved similar issues with other games by using the catalyst control centre.
Brian

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:36 am

Pendar wrote:Download ati catalyst control centre,
Its a nifty application all ATI users should get anyway but it will also let you basically disable your card with minimal fiddeling.
I run an ati radeon pro 64mb "yeah yeah i rock", i have not had this problem with illarion but have solved similar issues with other games by using the catalyst control centre.
Brian

You also have this for NVidia. There is also a setting in there which fixes the pinkish lines some NVidia cards make Illarion have.