PlaneShift

Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: Metal_ray on May 21, 2005, 06:11:40 am

Title: Name Tags
Post by: Metal_ray on May 21, 2005, 06:11:40 am

Whenever i play the game white rectangles instead of names appear on top of peoples heads.  How can i fix this?  

Hint: It probably has nothing to do with my video cards.

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Post by: Half_Pint on May 21, 2005, 03:46:41 pm

I am also having this problem.  Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers.  :)

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Post by: Moogie on May 21, 2005, 08:04:51 pm

I guess we\'ll just have to assume it has nothing to do with your graphics card or drivers, even if this is a classic sign of being that nature of problem.

But maybe you could tell us some details that prove it? :P

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Post by: solidsnake332 on May 21, 2005, 09:20:54 pm

it happend to me 2, i am using a pentium 4 3.2 GHZ processor, a PCI express nvidia Geforce 4 6200 256 MB with 1 GIG of ram.

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Post by: DivineLight on May 21, 2005, 09:22:16 pm

Here moogie a proof:
(http://img272.echo.cx/img272/3480/shot075nk.th.jpg) (http://img272.echo.cx/my.php?image=shot075nk.jpg)

i am having the same problem, it appeared after update. I was having this problem in the CVS version also right after Blue updated client to show those nice labels that appear in center of the screen and fade with time.

I can see those labels pretty good but can\'t see those tags.

My Specs:
P-IV 1.8 Ghz, 256Mb SDRAM, intel extreme 64Mb built-in GPU.

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Post by: Androgos on May 21, 2005, 10:36:29 pm

Does this happen on ALL labels?

And i trust that you\'ve run the updater

And solidsnake, you can\'t have a GF4 AND GF6

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Post by: res on May 21, 2005, 11:19:57 pm

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Originally posted by DivineLight
My Specs:
P-IV 1.8 Ghz, 256Mb SDRAM, intel extreme 64Mb built-in GPU.

Hm, what \"Intel Extreme\" exactly? I think there are multiple ones...

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Post by: DivineLight on May 22, 2005, 02:02:42 am

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Originally posted by Androgos
Does this happen on ALL labels?

And i trust that you\'ve run the updater

I\'ve updated the game before posting. The bug is still there and it appeared after update.

Yes i see it on every player & NPCs head.

&Intel Extreme is just like Nvidia\'s Geforce 2, but it lacks a hardware T&L unit, it performs Texturing & Lightning through software and this causes many games not to run on it. :/

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Post by: res on May 22, 2005, 02:18:05 am

Blind shot: does uncommenting the line \"Video.OpenGL.UseExtension.GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap = false\" (remove the leading semicolon) from data/config/r3dopengl.cfg change anything?

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Post by: Half_Pint on May 23, 2005, 01:39:17 pm

If that\'s a blind shot, I would hate to have you shooting at me with your eyes open!

I uncommented the line, and I can see the labels perfectly now.  :)

Thanks!   8)

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Post by: res on May 23, 2005, 01:48:28 pm

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Originally posted by Half_Pint
If that\'s a blind shot, I would hate to have you shooting at me with your eyes open!

;)

What graphics card did you have, btw? (I need that info so I can add an entry to the driver database). Of course, everyone else getting this issue is welcome to report that, too. So far I only know it happens on Intel graphics, and a GeForce where it\'s not clear whether a 4 or 6 was meant... Thanks.

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Post by: Half_Pint on May 23, 2005, 01:52:51 pm

I\'ve got an Geforce 4 graphics card, 512mb Ram, 2.8ghz proccessor, Windows XP.

Thanks again for the help, it\'s nice to know who I\'m seeing ingame.   :)

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Post by: res on May 23, 2005, 02:04:58 pm

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Originally posted by Half_Pint
I\'ve got an Geforce 4 graphics card, 512mb Ram, 2.8ghz proccessor, Windows XP.

Hm strange... I have a GF4 in my PC atm, too, but don\'t get problems...

Anyway, I do need some more precise infos; what I\'d ask you to do is:

1. Run PlaneShift from the command line like this:
psclient.exe -console -verbose=-scf > foo.txt
- just starting suffices, you don\'t need to run around or so; the time the PS window popped up the info was recorded.

2. Look in foo.txt for lines like:
crystalspace.canvas.openglwin:  GL driver: NV4_DISP 6.14.10.7610

crystalspace.canvas.openglcommon:  OpenGL renderer: GeForce4 Ti 4200/AGP/SSE/3DNOW! (vendor: NVIDIA
  Corporation) version 1.5.3

...and report them back to me.

Thanks!

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Post by: ginevra on May 25, 2005, 11:40:57 pm

i had the same problem with label, now i uncommented that line and i have no more problems.
i have an Intel on board.

I have another problem too: i have broken graphic in valley, i see throght the hills

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Post by: travus on June 06, 2005, 08:27:01 pm

hey i dont understand how to fix this.

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Post by: DivineLight on June 07, 2005, 07:24:42 am

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Originally posted by travus
hey i dont understand how to fix this.

don\'t u remember where u installed PS?
i installed it in \"E:/Games/PlaneShift Crystal Blue\"
so i have to open this file:
E:/Games/PlaneShift Crystal Blue/data/config/r3dopengl.cfg\"

and then find this line:
;Video.OpenGL.UseExtension.GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap = false

and edit it like this ( remove the leading semicolon \';\' )
Video.OpenGL.UseExtension.GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap = false

Then save it (CTRL + S).

then run the client and i hope you\'ll not see those white rects any more.


Now is there anything you can\'t understand here?