Weird Graphics Problem

[Jester_159th]

Anyone help me out with this. Our squad uses custom skins and I've started getting the following. Offline it's a major irritation, but when it happens while I'm online it'll crash the server for some reason.

 

Mission will start fine, decent FPS. After a while Lock On will hang for a couple of seconds and then some (or all) the textures disappear. At the same time FPS will drop to (literally) 2 or 3.

 

Our custom skins are installed in the TempTextures folder BTW. The fault only occurs when using our squad skin, all the default ones work fine. But it's not the skin files themselves since I've reinstalled them twice (and they've worked fine for quite a while before this started happening so it's not a corrupt download).

 

Here's a couple of screenshots showing the problem

 

 

 

 

 

System specs:

 

P4 2.4gig CPU

1024MB PC2700 DDR RAM

ATI 9800Pro (Omega version of Cat 5.6 drivers...I've tried the 5.7's as well)

AC97 On board sound

 

Anyone got any ideas about this?

[Mustang]

have you checked your motherboard drivers? (especially the GART driver if you're using AGP) also check to see if your AGP Aperture is set to 128mb in your motherboard BIOS (if possible)

[SuperKungFu]

WOW...that is one white Su-25T! anyway...it might be a skin problem, and the cpu is not loading it fast enough. What is the res of the skin your team is using?

[Jester_159th]

I've checked all the drivers and DirectX functions etc, but I'll double check them Mutang, thanks.

 

The skin files are (IIRC) the stock files for the third default skin which were recoloured and extra insignia added. I thought it could be the files themselves at first, but after reinstalling them (and then reinstalling LOMAC and FC as well the problem remained.

 

AFAIK I'm the only one in our squad having these problems, which makes me think it's more likely a fault with my PC than with the skin itself. Especially since when the problem occurs the ground textures diappear as well. The strange thing is LOMAC works absolutely 100% fine if I don't use the skin.

[Dronas]

Don't use ATi tray tools :)

[Maverick-90]

Turning off ATI Tray tools works, hab whole object parts missing, now they're back!

[Dronas]

Sorry for english :)

 

I'm use ATi Tray tools and get this effect, i find parameter when add this effect, but don't remember him, sorry but you shud find this parameter. Try shaders option, i think this is him.

 

Sorry for Engish :)

[Jester_159th]

Thank you guys. It seems that the tray tools are indeed the problem. The Catalyst driver AI seems to be a part of it as well (would this be related to the shaders option Dronas mentioned?)

 

Looks like I did my normal trick of diving in the deep end and overlooking the obvious. Many thanks to everyone whose helped me with this.

 

BTW: Dronas, no need to apologise for your English.......It's a lot better than my Russian! ;)

[MajorV]

Make Sure You Check "Support DXT Texture Formats" Box

 

I just ran into a very similar missing textures problem with my 9600XT (128 mb) using CAT 5.8 drivers. I had not run FC 1.1 for a couple of months, and all of the sudden all skins and most cockpit textures were missing. After much trial and error, I figured out that you need to check one setting in particular in Catalyst Control Center to fix this. Under "3D"/"API Specific", make sure that you have "Support DXT Texture Formats" CHECKED. I had unchecked it when I upgraded to CAT 5.8 in the hope of squeezing out a few more FPS on another sim (IL2/PF). Hope this helps.

 

MajorV

[Mustang]

hmm ATi tray Tools the cause of the problem? i wonder how, since it has never caused me any issues like you've had......oh well, whatever fixes it for ya =)

[Dronas]

Yes problem in use ATi tray tools, I install this utils, play whith parameters and take this effect, any time i can't escape from effect, and when a remember this thanks to shaders option!!!