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Support => Technical Help: IN GAME bugs (after loading world) => Topic started by: swift on December 25, 2004, 08:50:55 am

Title: (Graphics Problems) Spare a thought for one who can't play cb
Post by: swift on December 25, 2004, 08:50:55 am

Just downloaded the client and installed it on my laptop, with a grapics card that doesn\'t support open gl. The processor is 2.8GHz, so \"Safe Mode\" in mb worked fine. Problem is with CB I can\'t see anything but the background. Any ideas? - I\'
ve been waiting for a release with combat for over 2 Years and when it come I can\'t play it !

Here\'s a screenshot of loading, going fine.

http://www.swift.4hv.org/cbloading.gif

And here\'s one of the play screen

http://www.swift.4hv.org/cbscreen.jpg

Your help would be greatly appreciated, if nobody has any ideas I\'ll have to get a new system.

Thanks

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Post by: |Zidewinder| on December 25, 2004, 09:06:23 am

I hate to say it, but it\'s probably high time you got a new system if your GPU doesn\'t support OpenGL... =(

You could try using an OpenGL emulator like Mesa ( http://www.tux.org/pub/X-Windows/mesa/Mesa.html ). That MIGHT work for you. Don\'t get your hopes up though, emulators are sort of imperfect most of the time. You\'ll have to figure out how to compile Mesa and set it up, which I can\'t help you with since I\'ve never used it. You might also be able to find a more up to date OpenGL emulator if you look around harder than I did. Good luck! =)

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Post by: Huh? on December 25, 2004, 09:22:57 am

have exact same problem and i have played over 1000\'s of opengl games  ;)
that is not the problem

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Post by: Iamthom on December 25, 2004, 11:01:45 am

i have the same problem, except there are cutouts for where the text should be (so i can actually read it, though it still looks very bad and was told that it would produce problems in the game by acraig)

Title: alpha problems
Post by: Khaki on December 25, 2004, 01:05:20 pm

This seems to do with alpha text problems in openGL. The CS developers fixed this exact same problem once before, which worked for the vast majority of people. If you have this problem, please put down your Gfx Card and driver version so we can report it to them.

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Post by: Iamthom on December 25, 2004, 05:44:36 pm

i have a

ATI Rage Fury
32mb
Driver Version: 6.13.3279.0


this old card hasnt been a problem in the past at all, PS: MB ran perfectly fine (and yes i know things have changed but there shouldnt be that much of a difference)

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Post by: swift on December 25, 2004, 07:16:55 pm

So is there no \"Safe (Slow) Mode\" in cb?

Tried Mesa with no luck, but thanks for the idea.  

Pity I can\'t upgrade my graphics card, if nothing else I\'ll have to build another desktop for gaming - but my laptop is only 1 year old :(

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Post by: Dirk Floodman on December 25, 2004, 09:39:48 pm

I\'ve had almost the same problem.  I have a perfect looking menu save for the fact that there are no words on it.  I used a different computer that worked to see what buttons I needed to push to start the game on my computer.  The game will run, but no words are present there either.

Averatec laptop
Model #AV5500
AMD Mobile Sempron 2600
Windows XP
Graphics card is a SiS integrated ultra 256 with 128 meg shared video ram.
768 meg ram (minus video ram)

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Post by: nevlothiel on December 25, 2004, 09:52:04 pm

Mine looks exactly like swift\'s. I have an S3 prosavage8 graphics card.

The driver version is 6.13.0010.1061

I ran mb with this card too with no problems, and that was before i updated it.

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Post by: swift on December 25, 2004, 10:23:25 pm

Thanks for your help.  

My card\'s a:

Trident CyberAladdin-P4 V6.4612.221CD_SE_NP

The driver is version

6.14.1.10

Date 24/04/2003

Thanks

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Post by: mbahleda on December 27, 2004, 07:19:06 am

I have the same problem...


mine is a S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR

driver version 6.14.10.0028


any help is appreciated!

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Post by: nameless53 on December 27, 2004, 08:08:43 am

Quote

Originally posted by mbahleda
I have the same problem...


mine is a S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR

driver version 6.14.10.0028


any help is appreciated!

Me and the others who posted in the IMPORTANT: distortions ect.

has the same problem, and same card.

most likely the most updated form of

s3 Graphics ProSavageDDR