OFP Gurus: HELP Pleeeeeeease

[CaptainBravo 0]

Hey,

I have this frustrating problem with my displaywhen playing OFP.

Problem: When I start playing mission I get all sorts of flickering, distortion and pixles on my screen. Funny thing is this happens only in daytime missions. Night missions no problem unless I use NVGs. The flickering is so bad the game is unplayable!

I have searched the forum and folled some of the tips and hints:

- Updated all video drivers.

- Patched up my windows to latest update.

- Updated Direct x

- Updated Bios.

- Re-installed OFP

AND still same problem!!

My system:

2.60 MHz Intel

1 Gig RAM

ATI 9800 Pro 128 Ram

Windows 2000

Please any help is highly appreciated!!!

[BraTTy 0]

Weird...its ok at night?

That leads me to suspect video card:

-Heat (dust in video card fan)

-improper chipset agp driver

-bad video card ram (can you complete a video card benchmark program? 3dmark etc..)

A few things you can try:

-check the ati power cable that goes internally to the video card

-clean the video card fan/heatsink

-try new chipset drivers (depends on your motherboard chipset)

-still no good underclock your video card

-different refresh rate (you may be using a rate your monitor doesnt support)

edit: often reinsert your video card helps

[CaptainBravo 0]

Thanks for your reply BraTTy.

The following has been done:

I Got a replacment Card since it might have been defective and still same problem!!?

What could possibly be wrong?? As I mentioned before, night mission no problem (except if I use NVGs then I get the pixles and flickering all over screen) and Daytime missions where the screen just goes crazy. This doese not happen with other games or video applications.

I am at a loss at what might be casuing this???

Any help is highly aprrrreciated!

[mr burns 132]

Nightime missions usually take less power than daytime´s. There are much fewer objects to draw because you just don´t see shit.

Using nvg´s is another story. While there´s only black&greenish tones the additional colors you see daytimes should be the reason for more cpu/gpu usage.

Easiest option would be to lend some proper videocard and try it with that, if it´s then still fubar you should go over to check the cpu (although if that´d been to hot ofp would just shutdown..).

[Heatseeker 0]

The following has been done:

I Got a replacment Card since it might have been defective and still same problem!!?

What could possibly be wrong?? As I mentioned before, night mission no problem (except if I use NVGs then I get the pixles and flickering all over screen) and Daytime missions where the screen just goes crazy. This doese not happen with other games or video applications.

I am at a loss at what might be casuing this???

Any help is highly aprrrreciated!  

What other apps/games have you tried? I assume this is a new card? Trying diferent (older) drivers could fix it, plenty of guys here seem to play OPF with no problems with 9800pro cards, could be a compatbility issue related to latest ati drivers, win 2k and OPF but that seems doubtfull ..

I think Placebo has a 9800 pro, maybe he can recomend a stable driver for you to try.

[BraTTy 0]

Wow you even got another card and same thing?

I was under the assumption that you tried other video drivers like you stated in your original post. You did try other drivers? Older prefferrably.

Your only seeing speckles in OFP and not in other games leads me to believe its not your computer ram which it could also have been.

Could try to delete your flashpoint.cfg (save a backup if you want).When you run OFPpreferences it will make a new one.

It still could be your chipset drivers,and it still possibly a power problem.But just OFP?

[llauma 0]

Try lowering the AGP speed to 4x.. I think it might solve your problem.