Running psclient on ATI Catalyst 8.5 and later

[Tuxide]

I concur, it is definitely ATI's fault because, since Catalyst 8.4 worked with 0.4.00 with VBO turned on, it should definitely work with 0.4.01 with VBO turned on. >_>

[SidArtur]

I concur, it is definitely ATI's fault because, since Catalyst 8.4 worked with 0.4.00 with VBO turned on, it should definitely work with 0.4.01 with VBO turned on. >_>

Uh, did you read this:

- Switched to Crystal Space 3D Engine version 1.4 which includes many bug fixes, improvements and new features.

Does this help make sense of it?  There's been a change on the PS side of things, so what ran fine before may not run now.

How does that make it ATI's fault?!  The 3D Engine changed between the two versions, so I don't understand the basis of why you're saying 'it should definitely work with 0.4.01".  And do we even know what VBO does?  Is it really that critical at this point?

[Caarrie]

 

- Switched to Crystal Space 3D Engine version 1.4 which includes many bug fixes, improvements and new features.

Does this help make sense of it?  There's been a change on the PS side of things, so what ran fine before may not run now.

yes things have changed in CS but if people that are NOT on windoze and dont have ati cards see no change in this why are we to blame cs? I have an ati card under linux and i dont have any such issues. a bump in cs does not always mean things like this should change.

[Tuxide]

Thought I would post that ATI Catalyst 8.7 is out now if anyone wants to try it.

EDIT:  I just installed ATI Catalyst 8.7 and psclient now crashes when antialiasing is set to 2, 4, or 8.  Thus, antialiasing must be set to 1 or 0 and VBO must be turned off for it to not crash.

[Tomislav]

Thought I would post that ATI Catalyst 8.7 is out now if anyone wants to try it.

EDIT:  I just installed ATI Catalyst 8.7 and psclient now crashes when antialiasing is set to 2, 4, or 8.  Thus, antialiasing must be set to 1 or 0 and VBO must be turned off for it to not crash.

I was about to give up on 8.7 as well, but it works the way Tuxide described.

[Tomislav]

Reducing Anti-Aliasing to 1 reduces quality a lot. However, I discovered that if you override it using Catalyst, the game will look smoth and won't chrash. I set mine to 6x and it works fine.

[Unode]

All ATI users should have a look at this.

There are some serious problems with the latest ATI drivers, both in Windows and Linux (Mac also?).
With the latest ones I couldn't even start PS in window mode and had problems even before entering Yliakum... Login menus and character creation screen were garbled and text was misaligned..

[Tuxide]

That has nothing to do with stability; this thread is about psclient crashing on world load under certain conditions.  If you're having problems with your GUI display then it's something completely different than this.

[Trahern Einion]

Unode, I think you have found something usefull there, if I hadn't read that I might have given up!

I was using Catalyst 8.4 which worked for me up until the last update ((22nd july?) where upon the PClient crashed every time, 75% into loading the world.
I tried: Sound off, Antialias = 0, Fullscreen, VBO off unchecked all pre-loads etc and various combinations to no avail.

I've tried various drivers: 8.7, 8.6, 8.3, 7.12, 7.11, and third party Omega driver 48442, all of which gave me the standard "This program has found a problem and will now close" error.
edit: 7.11 may have worked with the PClient but I could not install them, I'll recheck this at some point.

By turning hardware acceleration off I managed to load (albeit unplayable) so this is obviously a 3D/driver related problem.

Anyway the point is I now have it working using the original Catalyst 4.6 drivers supplied on cd with the card  so if that's any help to anyone with a similar problem.

edit: and even better, it works with all the fancy options (sound/vbo/AntiA/etc) enabled!

Win XP Home
AMD Athlon XP 1.67 GHz
1 GB RAM
Radeon 9800

[Tomislav]

Catalyst 8.8 is out. Looks like they fixed the driver. My client doesn't crash after log in anymore.

[ThomPhoenix]

Hmm, I'll check if I can finally make PS work on my desktop now

[Eliseth]

I deleted Millian's post. Please mind your language on these forums Millian, consider this your first warning, anymore of that and you're out of here.

[Tuxide]

Catalyst 8.8 is out. Looks like they fixed the driver. My client doesn't crash after log in anymore.

Tomislav:  Do you have VBO turned on?  I installed Catalyst 8.8 and I can get it to work with antialiasing set to 8 in pssetup (and set to Use application settings in Catalyst Control Center), but it still crashes for me like before when I have VBO turned on.

[Tomislav]

Catalyst 8.8 is out. Looks like they fixed the driver. My client doesn't crash after log in anymore.

Tomislav:  Do you have VBO turned on?  I installed Catalyst 8.8 and I can get it to work with antialiasing set to 8 in pssetup (and set to Use application settings in Catalyst Control Center), but it still crashes for me like before when I have VBO turned on.

No, I keep it turned off as that options seems to make everything less stable.

[Tuxide]

Thought I would post that I just tried Catalyst 8.9 and psclient still crashes when VBO is turned on.