The character creation screen are not drawing correctly

[JHAx86]

Hi,

at first I though what I was watching was the expected aspect of the graphics as this is the first time I play, but then, when trying to leave the character creation menu I was unable to find the buttons. Then I realized something was going wrong with the graphics. If I click in some points of the screen the missed buttons appears. I'm unable to enter the game due to this, as I cannot finish a character creation.

Some snapshots





Is this normal?
Is the aspect of graphics in those snapshots as expected?

My system status is:

CPU: Pentium 4 D 3.0 GHz
RAM: 1,536 MB RAM - 64 VRAM
Onboard video: S3G Unichrome Pro
OS: Windows XP SP2

Thanks for read.

[Caarrie]

looks like your graphics card cant handle the game, try updating the drivers for it, if that does not help the only fix is to replace it with something better.

[neko kyouran]

http://www.s3graphics.com/en/resources/drivers/

see if there is a newer version of your cards drivers avail and try those.

also, Savage cards are terrible.  That company has refused to fix their problem with support for OpenGL for years.

PS uses OpenGL, as that is cross platform, and DirectX is not.  Savage is a terrible company all araound, so even the newest drivers may not work for you. You just got a terrible card I'm afraid.

If you'd like further proof, here's the link to the forum's search page; http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?action=search

Type in 'savage' in a search and watch as you get tons a results all from people with those POS cards that can't play games that use OpenGL.

I don't balme you though.  Most people don't know that the computer they buy has a cheap POS graphics chip in it when they buy, and it's only after they try to do anything on their computer they find this out.

[Pizik]

Sounds like you loathe them about as much as I do Neko, they really are the ultimate in Graphics 'card' dirge, even worse than SiS things.  JHAx86, you have my condolences.

[JHAx86]

You speak of my card as in its funeral   

Yes, this thing can reproduce well video up to 1024x768 (slow after that if using Media Player Classic) but it is not for true games. Now that you mention its problems with openGl, I have a lot of graphic corruption when running blender 3d, to solve this I installed Vector Linux in Sun Virtual Box, as linux has openGl support be software I can run blender in Linux without problem, maybe the same apply for PS but I don't sure about running such a game inside a virtual machine with Windows XP in the background, my pc is not so powerful.

Well, I think I will try it out, and, if I get a descent frame rate, maybe I can play this way until I could get a true video card.

Is there a linux version in which I can install PS without worry of dependencies?

Thank you all for the answers. See you in the game.

[neko kyouran]

Is there a linux version in which I can install PS without worry of dependencies?

Thank you all for the answers. See you in the game.

PS prides itself on client packages for Win, Mac, and Linux boxes.  You can find them here: http://www.planeshift.it/download.html

They all connect you to the same game world.