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Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: Cilay_mecur on September 23, 2006, 11:23:48 pm

Title: Graphics
Post by: Cilay_mecur on September 23, 2006, 11:23:48 pm

Hi there my systems meets the requiements+ to play PS,
but the graphics are very poor and strange, even at the login screen text cannot be seen or the PS setup i cant see the text either
any ideas or if this is infact a PS problem or a system...

Thanks for ANY help..

Title: Re: Graphics
Post by: Santiago on September 23, 2006, 11:25:31 pm

Make sure you are using the most up-to-date graphics drivers for your card.

Title: Re: Graphics
Post by: Kymizer on September 23, 2006, 11:56:47 pm

Yes, updating graphics drivers is very very very important, if you are using a nvidia graphics card just go to www.nvidia.com (http://www.nvidia.com) its fairly easy to navigate though so you will probably find the latest drivers.

Title: Re: Graphics
Post by: Cilay_mecur on September 24, 2006, 12:33:32 am

that was the first thing i thought off, downloaded the drivers and tried again but nothing.....

The thing is i can see my char and everthing else fine and looks ok..Just the text i cant see and even the PSsetup text i cant see any at all ???

Title: Re: Graphics
Post by: Karyuu on September 24, 2006, 02:40:54 am

What are your system specs, and driver version? :]

Title: Re: Graphics
Post by: Cilay_mecur on September 24, 2006, 11:51:15 am

spec: Athlon 2600m+, 512DDR, 32mb graphics, os: WinXP

Title: Re: Graphics
Post by: neko kyouran on September 24, 2006, 01:41:41 pm

And the name of the video card, plus driver version you are using?

Title: Re: Graphics
Post by: Cilay_mecur on September 24, 2006, 03:22:31 pm

Its a laptop, S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR, driver version 6.14.10.33

Title: Re: Graphics
Post by: Karyuu on September 24, 2006, 08:29:19 pm

I believe that's the built-in card with OpenGL problems. S3 Savages are notoriously bad for intensive 3D games, usually with only 16-32MB of RAM on the cards to work with. Unfortunately that's way below the minimum requirements, and thus there are simply no solutions to some problems.

Find yourself an actual video card, preferrably with a minimum of 128MB, and the feel of the game will improve a thousand-fold.

Title: Re: Graphics
Post by: mrcuteo on September 26, 2006, 04:28:10 pm

My laptop Spec: Athlon 2600m+, 512DDR, 32mb graphics, os: WinXP
S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR, driver version 6.14.10.33

You need to set your display settings to 16bit and PS setup color dept to 16bit also and your 3d graphics will work just fine :)
but you`ll notice the fonts color change from light yellow to dark black. From my research i think this happens because S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR cannot handle 3D games graphics ..

Hope this will help you Cilay_mecur