vertex/texture prob, new card?

[AAC Stu 0]

hello people, i am going to get this game right , and i currently have a pentium D (dual core) 2.66ghz and 1024mb ram(upgraing to 2GB) with xp.... my card is a radeon x300 (haha i know). i am going to get a sapphire x1950 pro 512mb to replace the poor card!

i have the demo, and it plays fine with about 30fps, until i get near AI or villages, vertexes and stuff cover the screen from the center (attached pic), what is it... memory possibly?

what i want to know is will the x1950 i am going to buy fix it? and play the game normally?

cheers in advance

 

[max power 21]

It looks like your card is overheating or has insufficient power. There are a couple of other possibilities but I'm a little vague on them.

[tutmeister 0]

Your new card will, most probably, work just fine - but first check the following (may seem obvious, but sometimes it's not so..):

- Updated drivers for ATI

- Clean inside your case as best you can and, in particular, dust out the heatsink and fans. Nothing better than a bunch of hot air with nowhere to go to stop a graphics card in it's tracks.

- Some good old hard disk chores: defrag, turn off excess processes like antivirus, firewall, defragger (once you've done it! ), etc.

Based on the specs you posted, you should be fine if your at 30FPS, but have you tried it with all the specs turned way down, to see if you can replicate it....

Finally, the AI really tax the processor over the graphics card, hence I mentioned cleaning the heatsink and area around it carefully. I hope you manage to get it running Stu.

[rowdied 44]

If you can go for the x1950 gt or better yet the x1900xtx 512 ram model, it kicks ass and runs smooth as butter.

[cole 0]

Same thing happens to me.. Mostly I've got few seconds to turn the game off or it crashes.

AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3500+, 2.21 GHz

3GB RAM

GeForce 7600 GT 256MB

Running ArmA with beta patch and -maxmem=512

This issue also happened with 1.08

[max power 21]

If it's a power issue then moving to a new card will most likely make it worse. If it is a low power issue, a new, more powerful PSU would solve the problem.

[AAC Stu 0]

ahh cool, thanks for all the replies,

tutmiester - i never thought of that!! i will do that right now! the x300 doesnt have a fan, so i will just do the cpu, but i have never seen a heat sink so big!! it literally takes up half the inside frame! just downloaded the new drivers.

plantiff - yes i see what you mean now... i was considering a new psu to accomodate the new card... currently its a stock 305w dual 12v and 18A rails... now i'm not good with psu's.. so go easy, and i saw this, Power supply, it seems to be a secondry psu that directly and only powers the G-card that works with the primary psu... will this do??

because i dont want to frazzle the brand new card and not be able to play on the amazing game!!!!

i did think about the GT, but if you look at This Chart you can see the pro is slightly faster.

cheers again  

stu

(oh and yes all settings were on low and very low)

(edit - terrible spelling)

[LoboE 0]

I have this annoying gfx problem too. It will mostly go away when I alt-tab to windows and back.

It aint heat for me..

Specks:

Mobo: Abit IB9

Cpu: Intel E6400 + Noctua NH-U9F

Gfx: Asus 7950GT + VF900-CU

Mem: G.Skill 2x1GB DDR2-800 + 120mm fan

Psu: BeQuiet 700W,Straight-Serie

2x120mm case fans

[max power 21]

I'm sure that psu would do, but I think that if having an underpowered card is your problem, that buying a fill replacement psu would not be much more expensive.

[cole 0]

O.....kay.. Now I'm totally confused.. I played a lot for the last 2 days and didn't got this error! O_o

Maybe PSU working as it wants?

I'll try to test it somehow

[max power 21]

O.....kay.. Now I'm totally confused.. I played a lot for the last 2 days and didn't got this error! O_o

Maybe PSU working as it wants?

I'll try to test it somehow

Is it a cold day where you are or something?

[cole 0]

It keeps getting warmer here a bit (Czech Republic). When the game kept crashing it was cold here.

Played more today and it was all smooth and perfect (well not at the start, it looked a bit like it's going to crash - some textures not loading even if I looked on that place for some minutes..). Looks like the crash got scared because I reported it

I'll try to investigate the problem a little more (maybe test changing PSU's)

[Radius 0]

I have a similar problem but it just seems to be related to my position in the game. Occasionally it will seem as though polygons are originating at a single point and spreading outwards towards me and covering the screen.

As I say, it only happens when I'm standing at a specific point on the map and looking in a certain direction.

Heavy fog while being in the cockpit of any vehicle will also do it.

PSU is way overmatched for my video system and cooling is not the issue with 6 120mm case fans and 2 GPU fans.

[AAC Stu 0]

hey people, its fixed!!

just so everone knows, it is a driver issue, i installed the latest Catalyst ATI drivers 8.1 last week, so i thought i had it all set up correct with up to date software...

however, the drivers failed after an inncorrect shutdown so i just unistalled all ATI stuff, then reinstalled the same stuff again, and it fixed it... working really smooth now!! on a x300! fiddleing with the catalystcc also helped.

so now i just need the x1950 to beef it up a little! oh and probs an new psu for the card!

but atleast its working!

cheers for the help

stu

so if this happens with an ATI just try unistalling the previous drivers, then install the new ones fresh

[max power 21]

nice work!

[Entelin 0]

I have a nv 8800 gt, I got the same issue on 1.08 under most resolutions. On lower rez's I would see the issue in your screenshot, and it would crash shortly after. Changing rez's to anything and then back would remove the problem and I could continue playing until it cropped up again (which may only be 5-10 mins later). This issue never occurred while not moving, it always happened while traveling over distances. At higher rez's like 1600x1200 I would not see the artifacting, it would just crash immediately. I tried setting everything to lowest quality, lowest rez, used command line switches, everything, no improvement (at all).

Updating to 1.09b resolved this issue entirely, though it still did crash on me once after 4 hours or so. All in all, not bad. If you don't have these crashing/artifacting issues in other games then its unlikely to be your PSU, or overheating.

[cole 0]

Since my problem dissapeared I can't test this out properly but this could help fixing the problem ingame:

Hold shift and minus on numpad (that opens the "cheat" console), then type "flush" (without ""). This flushes all the VRAM allocations (so after you type it, you're screen will go black for a few seconds with that "Retrieving..." sign and then the graphic stuff loads again). Could anyone test it out and confirm if it's working or not?

[Misfit Leader 1]

It's working, but that doesn't prevent the game from crashing on a DXT error message (mostly often after multiple alt-tabbing ^^ )

Also, that doesn't fully solve the artefact problem. Sometimes it will get back a few mins after (or shorter/longer), and then you rewrite the command.. artefact disappears again etc.. and that can bring you to a crash too by the end.