Nvida G-Force graphic card users

Drathe · Post by **Drathe** » Tue May 13, 2003 2:10 am

Juts a note to people who use G-Force graphics cards, you know if you have one by the pink lines around some of the ingame graphics

I have a G-force II 64 meg card. Other than the pink lines I have never had a problem with it in Illarion. That is untill I got the latest Nvida driver for it; 43.45_win2kxp_international. It works fine with all games and programs I have ued except for Illarion.

When using this driver, the game lags to a point of umplayability, untill the server boots you for your slow connection. When I uninstalled it and put my old driver back on..it worked fine again.

I played around with it and a few back dated drivers and the game works fine with them all excpt 43.45_win2kxp_international.

Just thought I would tell who ever is intrested. It may work ok for you but if it does not at least you know its the dirver not something else now.

(edit by Galdriel:
any other usefull hints should be posted here too, even if they went into another topic)

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Fri May 23, 2003 4:55 am

I have a G-Force graphics card and the pink lines and all that, but I don't think my computer has ever crashed from it. I believe I have the latest one, but I will look into that. Instead of crashing from that, my computer crashes from every single other thing.

Seth Valor · Post by **Seth Valor** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 5:13 am

I also have the G-Force Graphics card, however, i have no pink lines, or any problems.

Mishrack · Post by **Mishrack** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 2:03 pm

hm... Just finally upgraded my 8mb shitty gfx card to a 128mb G-force FX 5200 n now it seems I cant run illa...

Armil Darken · Post by **Armil Darken** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 3:37 pm

Here is a thoretical explination for this, and I am messing with settings to try to find a sloution.

Reason: When resizing images the NVidia grafhics card automatically anti aliases the picture and the Illarion Client does not support anti aliasing and the image is anti aliased with the pink backgrount, and thus leaves a pink "Residue" around all resized sprites.

Solution:

None, at the moment

Gronfyn Alkidor · Post by **Gronfyn Alkidor** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 11:40 am

i have a G-Force graphics card too
its is 32MB
well i do not hav those pinK line during the game at all... not one
what i suffer from is a BIG lag ... unplayable
but i always keep saying it is an ISP problem
bcos with all the other ORPGs i play, the unplayable lag is present
and even some of my other friends who have the same ISP, suffer from the unplayable lag
i will be back playing illarion around october-november as i should be changing my ISP to adsl
until that time comes
c ya all and thanKs

Akario · Post by **Akario** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 9:14 pm

I just thought it should be noted that Illarion is not the only online game suffering from problems like this. A friend of mine who is really into Tibia said that he has problems like this on tibia with one of the ATI Radion cards. The problem results in the game area being messed up, I don't think it was pink lines though. He did say something about a lag in the game due to it I believe.

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:51 am

I've got a new videocard, a Nvidia Geforce FX5200 256 mb, and I downloaded the newest drivers, and the lines are still there. What to do?

martin · Post by **martin** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 5:43 pm

Armil Darken wrote:Reason: When resizing images the NVidia grafhics card automatically anti aliases the picture and the Illarion Client does not support anti aliasing and the image is anti aliased with the pink backgrount, and thus leaves a pink "Residue" around all resized sprites.

This is not 100% true. The truth is, that, per defition of the accepted standard, each graphic card should exclude this color from antialiasing when resizing. It should first make the pink disappear and then resize (and antialias against black). What it does is: It resizes first, antialiasing against pink, and then it sets this pink to black. This means, that it simply does not do what it is supposed to do because it does things in the wrong order.

Martin, who also has pink borders

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:10 pm

Martin, not even you could come up with something to fix it?
Bummer

Silvarion Whirlwind · Post by **Silvarion Whirlwind** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 4:07 pm

viewer number 1000 XD

and how do i find out wut kinda vid card i have, it's the factory default one thats burned in cuz i haven't been paid yet from work and idk when i'll be able to get a new one or if i even should. wut would u guys suggest if i do get a new gfx card, i don't really wanna pay over 50$ for one.

Dónal Mason · Post by **Dónal Mason** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 5:24 pm

What the...could you PLEASE not type like that? Please don't use "wut" "u" "cuz". Just don't use words like that. There are many people who's native tounge is not English here.

And to help you, I'll need your operating system.

Silvarion Whirlwind · Post by **Silvarion Whirlwind** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:47 pm

Sorry, it's habit. i've typed that way for the last 6 years, and it's not likely to stop any time soon, but i'll try since you asked nicely. if you had just told me to i would make it a point to talk that way because it's not against the rules to speak in whatever way i wish on non-game related boards. however, bcause you asked nicely i will do my best, but please forgive any messups i make. like i said, i've typed that way for the last 6 years and thats a long habit to try and brake free of.

anywho, windows xp would be the os. it was manufactured by sony vaoi, which you forgot to ask for and i thougth i would mention because while the os would slim down the possiblities the manufactuer has more controll over what card they install by default. if you could tell me how i would find out and what would be best i would greatly appreciate it.

Dónal Mason · Post by **Dónal Mason** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:55 pm

I only need the operating system. Here goes.

Right click in My Computer, click Properties.
Hardware
Device manager.
Display adaptors.

The name of your graphics card should be there.

Silvarion Whirlwind · Post by **Silvarion Whirlwind** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:02 pm

you'd think i would know that... i do atleast. i cant' believe i didn't think of that. now i feel stupid lol. thx for the reminder. i'm not at home so i can't check it now, but i'll repost what it is and ask how you guys think it will perform.

ok it's a intel 8285g/gl/ge/pe/gv graphics controller is what it says

Kidarien Rysdale · Post by **Kidarien Rysdale** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:46 am

people with the pink lines problem have you guys tryed going into your gfx card settings and turning off anti-aliasing and as for lagg its possible its your anisotropic filtering settings try turning it very low or completely off. Hope that helps.

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:48 am

That already helped for me some time ago. Right after I downloaded the new drivers I took a look into that nifty little configuration screen called Nvidia Control.

Lady Arynne · Post by **Lady Arynne** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:09 pm

I have problems with my graphics card, too. I have an ATI Mobility 128MB and it is terrible. My computer randomly displays a completely black screen (not only when playing Illarion, but at other random intervals as well) and the only thing I can do to fix it is hard-power down and restart it. Unfortunately, I am stuck with it, too because it is on my laptop, and the graphics card is on board...It would be way too much of a hassle to try to upgrade.

Normally, I would use my Desktop which has an excellent graphics card *drools* 512 MB but the power supply on it just died and I haven't the money to buy a new one just yet.

*sighs* Stupid hardware problems.,

Cassandra Fjurin · Post by **Cassandra Fjurin** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:43 pm

Lady Arynne wrote:I have problems with my graphics card, too. I have an ATI Mobility 128MB and it is terrible. My computer randomly displays a completely black screen (not only when playing Illarion, but at other random intervals as well) and the only thing I can do to fix it is hard-power down and restart it. Unfortunately, I am stuck with it, too because it is on my laptop, and the graphics card is on board...It would be way too much of a hassle to try to upgrade.

Normally, I would use my Desktop which has an excellent graphics card *drools* 512 MB but the power supply on it just died and I haven't the money to buy a new one just yet.

*sighs* Stupid hardware problems.,

Maybe your graphics card overheats? Does that happen very often, does it happen during warm days or during cold days?

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:59 pm

P.S. I do not know if people know it, but my problems with Nvidia are gone.

Devrah Liioness · Post by **Devrah Liioness** » Thu May 19, 2005 5:54 am

Cassandra, you know you might be on to something there. My model laptop is notorious for having a crappy cooling fan.

You are so smart.

((EDIT:: Lady Arynne is my other acct, if you were confused...Heh, forgot to switch it))

The-Puppeteer · Post by **The-Puppeteer** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:32 pm

How do you turn off the anti-aliasing?

Devrah Liioness · Post by **Devrah Liioness** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:34 pm

Right-click on your desktop and there should be an option like 'NVidia Control panel" or something. It is one of the settings menus there.

The-Puppeteer · Post by **The-Puppeteer** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:47 pm

Is the server down??
*Me prays for himself*
Because if it isn't I seem to have got the black screen bug or Illarion has been attacked by some very dark storm...
I've got a Windows XP
NVIDI GeForce FX 5600, is there anything else needed.. and also the magic please help

Bongo · Post by **Bongo** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:50 pm

The server's down.

The-Puppeteer · Post by **The-Puppeteer** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:51 pm

YAY GOD BE PRAISED!
*Me jumps out of his chair and makes a little dance*

Bongo · Post by **Bongo** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:53 pm

Just a note: If your character is listed on the server status and you're not in game, it generally means that there's something wrong with the server.

Edit: The server is online now.

The-Puppeteer · Post by **The-Puppeteer** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:18 pm

or if you see the same player amount and the same players on the server in during a hour...

Al'tian · Post by **Al'tian** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:00 am

Hmm... I have a NVIDIA GeForce4 (it's not G-Force) MX4000 128 MB cost me about 60$ IT RUNS LIKE A DREAM!! (better then my old generic graphics card...)

Nop · Post by **Nop** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:21 pm

Just a note: This thread is about the old client.

The new client uses openGL and just loves GeForce cards.