Running psclient on ATI Catalyst 8.5 and later

[Tuxide]

(Two months later) I just installed Catalyst 8.11 and was successfully able to get into Akk-Central with VBO turned on.  I walked around for some time, but when I tried to leave Akkaio psclient crashed on me, and it wouldn't let me out of the city until I flipped VBO off once again.  Once I did make it to ojapath, I flipped VBO back on and it crashed on world load.  Thus I had to flip VBO back off again just to get back into the game world.

EDIT:  Is there anything unique about Akk-Central that I don't know about?

[Garris Shrike]

The solution to error # 696EC79F‏ is quite simple. Turn your VBO off and run the first slider up to 8.

[Grigori]

4.03 doesnt start with my 8.11 driver (WinXP Radeon X1550). Just reboots PC or start process with 99% CPU use.
4.02 worked fine.

[Caarrie]

4.03 doesnt start with my 8.11 driver (WinXP Radeon X1550). Just reboots PC or start process with 99% CPU use.
4.02 worked fine.

and does your sound card support openal? have you tried to run the game from console to get an output? just because you have had the client work does not mean it always will without tweaking.

[Tuxide]

Modified OP to make it more clear what this thread is about.

[Grigori]

4.03 doesnt start with my 8.11 driver (WinXP Radeon X1550). Just reboots PC or start process with 99% CPU use.
4.02 worked fine.

and does your sound card support openal? have you tried to run the game from console to get an output? just because you have had the client work does not mean it always will without tweaking.

I disabled sound and it changes nothing. Will try to downgrade ATI driver. How to make PS give me info in console?

[Morla Phlint]

How to make PS give me info in console?

start menu/run type cmd, go to planeshift dir, type psclient.exe

or

Go to RUN on the start menu, type CMD and hit ENTER,

In the Command Prompt that appears please type: CD\Program Files\PlaneShift Steel Blue

Then type psclient.exe > C:\error.txt

This will run the game and output a bunch of text to the file C:\error.txt, open that file and select all and paste it to the forums inside CODE tags (the button above the smilies with the # picture on it)

[Grigori]

I downgraded to driver 7.12. The same problem.
VBO is off like sound is.

No console output. File error.txt is created but it is empty.

Does anybody have simular problem?

[Tuxide]

I just installed Catalyst 8.12 and I am still getting the same problem I mentioned in my OP.

[Elvicat]

something to try http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=34258.0 i know this is for the sound problem BUT for some this has even let them start the game

[Caarrie]

something to try http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=34258.0 i know this is for the sound problem BUT for some this has even let them start the game

but the ati issue started BEFORE this issue with sound so i dont think that would help any ati user.

[Elvicat]

maybe, but it dosn't hurt to try as i also said, on some system ps dosn't even start when it's set to openal

[Grigori]

something to try http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=34258.0 i know this is for the sound problem BUT for some this has even let them start the game

Thanks. It helpred. So the problem is sound. Even if sound is disabled...
Intresting fact is I have the same trouble will all OpenAl games.

[bjkallies@hotmail.com]

there is now a newer version of catalyst and it is working fine for me.

[enderandrew]

If you're running Vista or Windows 7, I recommend the new Catalyst 9.3 beta as it uses the new windows driver model.