Graphics glitches

Blackdog_kt · #1 03-14-2008, 02:30 AM

I have recently decided to look for some tutorials and tweak my graphics settings a bit. To my surprise, i can run perfect settings on a 3 year old PC, as long as i keep my resolution at 1024x768.

There is a slight issue however. When i use water=3 i get some strange graphics from time to time. I did use water=3 before as well, but didn't have any problems until switching to custom settings and perfect mode.

For example, when i'm watching tracks there is a dark circle underneath the aircraft the camera is following. This only happens when the aircraft is over water, so i guess it has to do with the water shaders?

Another thing is that sometimes i get wrong colors on the terrain, really bright ones like a negative film with high brightness. The thing is i can't get a screenshot because they disappear after less than a second. This mostly happens when i'm panning the view around and most of the times during the first few minutes of running a map/mission.

I tried setting bilinear, trilinear and anisotropic filters and these problems persist, unless i set water=2. The thing is, i have a nVidia6600GT (128MB) and water=2 is better for ATI cards. The graphics bugs disappear with water=2 but i get some freezes.

I'm running 4.08 on an AMD AthlonXP 2600+, nVidia6600GT (128MB), 1.2GB RAM and winXP service pack 2. Maybe i just need to get the latest drivers or it's something else. If anyone has an idea about these issues i could also provide a copy of my conf.ini and a dxdiag file to help pinpoint the issue.

Thanks in advance

KYA · #2 03-14-2008, 08:30 AM

Please, update your video driver

KG26_Alpha · #3 03-14-2008, 07:52 PM

Brakes on >>>>>>>>>>>>> dont update your video driver.....

This older driver will work great with your system.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_84.21.html

Make sure you clean out the old drivers with driver cleaner pro in safe mode first though.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download...2171476965c5ed

Blackdog_kt · #4 03-14-2008, 08:10 PM

Actually i went ahead and updated, it fixed the problems. Thanks for the input anyway

KG26_Alpha · #5 03-15-2008, 01:27 PM

Just to clarify

Fixed the black ring ?
Fixed the stutters ?
Fixed the textures ?

Thxz

Blackdog_kt · #6 03-15-2008, 05:04 PM

I think it fixed all of them. Stutters and the black ring are definitely gone. For the weird textures i'll have to get some more time behind the stick to properly test it out, as it's something that happened at an almost random fashion and i can't easily reproduce it deliberately to check it.