Help!! Huge Graphics Problems

[Lamiathan]

Looking for a little help here. I don't have if this is more my computer, or the graphics from the client, or what. But I did not have this problem before the update to the current version(0.4.01), and now that I have updated to that version, now I do have these problems. While in game, it looks really crappy in general. More specifically, most everything looks dotted and staticky, or as I would describe it, like really bad tv reception using an antenna. Also, the game runs much more slowly, and in general, does not seem to work very well. Any help with this would be appreciated. Following are links to screenshots that I took, hosted via Photobucket, and in the screenshot of the first one, there is a black line, which I am pretty sure was not there in game, when I took the screenshot, so pay no mind to that, but that first screenshot is also the one where you can see best the bad tv reception effect. And also, if you read the descriptions to the pictures, I put more info there as well, I think I included all of the info in this post, but just to be sure:

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc126/thedogpoundpalace/Planeshift%20Bad/shot07.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc126/thedogpoundpalace/Planeshift%20Bad/shot03.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc126/thedogpoundpalace/Planeshift%20Bad/shot04.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc126/thedogpoundpalace/Planeshift%20Bad/shot05.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc126/thedogpoundpalace/Planeshift%20Bad/shot06.jpg

Also, here is a link to the album itself:
http://s215.photobucket.com/albums/cc126/thedogpoundpalace/Planeshift%20Bad/

Also, the computer that I am using is a PowerMac G4 933 MHz PPC with 1.12 GB SDRAM, and an Nvidia GeForce4 MX video card with 64 MB of video RAM. Also to note, I have searched through the forums, and tried everything I could find, including disabling texture compression, and including the workaround for the ATIX1600 graphics cards, even though I do not have that card. Any other help here would be greatly appreciated, maybe there was a thread that I missed with a solution to this problem. Anyhow, I would really love to get this fixed as soon as possible.

[Caarrie]

either sounds like you have not updated your system and graphics card drivers in a long time or your mac is too far below the requirements for ps

[Lamiathan]

except i did update everything in Planeshift, and now, everytime I run psupdater, it says that there are no more available updates. So that part is up to date. I looked for any kind of graphics drivers update, and the only thing I found is this firmware update for several different graphics cards, including mine. I don't know if I needed it, but I installed it anyhow, with no effect on Planeshift. Furthermore, Planeshift worked perfectly fine with version 0.4.00(with the exception of some occasional lag, or persistent lag in certain areas like bd). And now, with version 0.4.01, the graphics do not work at all. Anyhow, if anyone has any other suggestions, I would be glad to humor them. I'm willing to try almost anything, short of buying a new system.

[Lamiathan]

Hey, wanted to update here on this. Still having problems, but now, I cannot even start Planeshift. Or really, I can, and login, but then when I select my character and click join, Planeshift starts to load, and then crashes. This happened every time I tried it. Anyhow, don't know if it will help, but I bought a newer video card and more ram. Maybe that will help the situation. I will post on here again when I get them to say whether or not it worked.

[Caarrie]

either sounds like you have not updated your system and graphics card drivers in a long time or your mac is too far below the requirements for ps

i am not sure you read what i said.. i said that your mac is not up to the specs that ps needs for you to be able to play

[Lamiathan]

I did read what you said. And you also mentioned that maybe things were not updated. I was simply eliminating that as a possibility. Also, as I said, Planeshift worked perfectly fine in version 0.4.00, and then not at all really in version 0.4.0.1. How can it stop working altogether from one version to the very next version?

[Caarrie]

How can it stop working altogether from one version to the very next version?

there were many changes to the engine that could cause such, and changes in CrystalSpace.

[Lamiathan]

well, if that was the case, would that not slow down my entire computer(which it does not, only the window for planeshift, i move the cursor outside of that window, everything else is fine). and even if that is the case, then what ARE the minimum requirements for planeshift?

[Beniel]

These are the minimum and recommended requirements as taken from the website:

Minimum Requirements:
Windows (2000, XP or Vista), Mac OS X 10.4, Linux (2.6 kernel, glibc 2.3.2), FreeBSD or Solaris
GeForce 2 or higher 3D graphics card (64MB of video memory at least)
1 Ghz CPU
512 MB RAM
1 GB free disk space
56k modem Internet connection

Recommended Requirements:
Windows (XP or Vista), Mac OS X 10.4, Linux (2.6 kernel, glibc 2.4)
GeForce 4 or higher 3D graphics card
2 Ghz CPU
1 GB RAM
1 GB free disk space
Broadband Internet connection