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Support => Technical Help: IN GAME bugs (after loading world) => Topic started by: Stebin on August 24, 2009, 07:09:34 am

Title: my screen keeps flashing
Post by: Stebin on August 24, 2009, 07:09:34 am

is it because my computer can't run it?

Title: Re: my screen keeps flashing
Post by: weltall on August 24, 2009, 07:24:35 am

you should give more specific informations like your hardware and software and what "flashing" means in this context

Title: Re: my screen keeps flashing
Post by: Stebin on August 24, 2009, 07:55:36 am

Comp Specs:
Vista
Intel Core2 Duo 2GHZ
2GB Ram
(not sure what kind of vid card it has but i know it's 64MB)

Issue:
The statics keep flashing invisible/visible. Also the UI flashes visible/invisible when i start clicking things.

Title: Re: my screen keeps flashing
Post by: weltall on August 24, 2009, 09:47:18 am

a 64mb video card with vista and that cpu looks strange can you check: control panel -> screen -> advanced options . under card it should say what you have and what vram does it have

Title: Re: my screen keeps flashing
Post by: Stebin on August 24, 2009, 03:51:38 pm

358mb vram

Title: Re: my screen keeps flashing
Post by: weltall on August 24, 2009, 04:58:22 pm

also the card name. from the amount of ram it seems you have an integrated chip

Title: Re: my screen keeps flashing
Post by: Stebin on August 24, 2009, 06:45:26 pm

Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100

i thiiiink.


EDIT: i found this in another thread and it KIND OF worked for me. i still dont see some icons and it still someitmes flickers:

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I get this on my laptop, and managed to fix it in 0.4.0 by messing about with the config files alot, so much that I don't remember what I did to fix it  . I've done some more fiddling since 0.4.01 and haven't found a fix yet, but will let you know if I do.

EDIT:

Thanks to this message http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=31751.msg366633#msg366633.

Remove the ; infront of Video.OpenGL.UseExtension.GL_ARB_texture_compression = false in the file <PS Folder>/data/config/r3dopengl.cfg

For me this fixed it, but the textures were in full bright, to fix that:

Remove the ; infront of Video.OpenGL.FullAcceleration = false in the file <PS Folder>/data/config/r3dopengl.cfg

Good luck.

Title: Re: my screen keeps flashing
Post by: weltall on August 24, 2009, 10:31:00 pm

nice you need to disable texture compression for the textures there is a thread about it in the forums

Title: Re: my screen keeps flashing
Post by: Stebin on August 25, 2009, 05:44:08 am

the buttons still dont show up though. like the training button, magic buttons and lots of more others. i couldn't find how to fix this.

Title: Re: my screen keeps flashing
Post by: LigH on August 25, 2009, 12:37:25 pm

Probably sad for you, but as far as I remember, people recommend as supported graphic card chipsets, about in this order:

1) standalone Nvidia GeForce generation 6 and newer
2) standalone Nvidia GeForce 4 or newer mobile/on-board Nvidia GeForce
3) standalone ATI Radeon HD generation 3 or newer
4) standalone ATI Radeon 95xx or mobile/on-board X19xx
5) other chipsets with at least decent OpenGL and shader support (minimum: Hardware T&L + Multitexturing; recommendable: Vertex + Pixel Shader with current versions)

Graphic solutions for notebooks are usually not suitable (exception: some designated "gaming" systems).

Compare values in the TechARP GPU Guides: Desktop (http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=88) / Mobile (http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=98)