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Support => Technical Help: IN GAME bugs (after loading world) => Topic started by: Niclaus on April 02, 2006, 07:14:37 am

Title: All gets dark and the graphics are bad
Post by: Niclaus on April 02, 2006, 07:14:37 am

The problem is that all the window gets dark, my character has no legs, his head is red and it seems to be shatered...

Sometimes i see other players walking around with blue boxes on their heads(it seems that they are saying something).

All my options are available, so i think the problem are the graphics.

I would thank you if you find a solution to this problem.

PD:i didn\'t find any thread with the solution for this problem.

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Post by: Karyuu on April 02, 2006, 09:07:09 am

You will need to give us your system specs for further help :) I suspect that either your card falls below the minimum requirements, or you just need a driver update.

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Post by: Niclaus on April 02, 2006, 08:02:14 pm

My computer has a atlhon xp 64 3.0 - 512 MB - Geforce 4 MX 4000 128 MB

Im going to check in nvdia if they have any driver update.

But i need help to solve this problem.

Thanks in advanced

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Thanks!!! i don?t see my drivers are the drivers come with windows..... i update this and work ok!!!!


Thanks

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Thanks for solving the problem,but...i have another one.

I can play the game for a little period of time and then everything freezes and i have to restart my computer.

Please give me a quick answer because i cant play the game if it freezes every 2 minutes and it can damage my computer, so i wont play it until you give me an answer.

Thanks in advance...again.

Please avoid posting two or more successive posts before others have replied. Just edit your last post to add new information :) --Karyuu

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Post by: Karyuu on April 03, 2006, 03:43:39 am

Freezes... hm. Have you tried playing without sound? You can disable it through the PlaneShift Setup utility, see if that makes any difference. And you\'ve run the game updater, right?

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Post by: Nilrem on April 03, 2006, 12:53:19 pm

As Karyuu stated, sound is the problem, however turning it off through setup can be a bad move if you run the game in windowed mode (risk of crashing when minimizing or toggling window) untill a bugfixing update is released.
Instead of turning sound off with Planeshift Setup, go in game normally.
Select Options (second button on the top, starting from the left) then Sound-General. Disable all sounds (background, effects, etc.) by unsticking the round boxes.
Despite you had a good amount of memory (with 512 MB the game should run fine) fact is that certain places are overcrowded with sound effects that may have caused an insanely high memory consumption. That place is commonly the arena. Yes, the sound eating memory bug has been looked upon, and, afaik, it\'s performance has been improved, but then again, you\'ll have to wait till the bugfixing update before enjoying the game sound effects without causing your computer to freeze.
Good luck with it.

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Post by: Niclaus on April 04, 2006, 12:29:00 am

Setting the sound off and the backgrounds, etc. didnt really work but i must say that this time i played longer than usually.