Game Development Community

Torque Shader Engine Demo fails on GeForce FX 5600

by Ubutopia · in Torque Game Engine · 09/27/2004 (4:54 am) · 8 replies

The TSE demo fails on my Toshiba laptop with a GeForce FX 5600 graphics card. This card is DX9 capible and runs DOOM 3 and other DX9 games just fine. Demo runs find on my desktop machine with a Radeon 9800 Pro.

The demo says that I don't have the latest drivers installed, even though I've just downloaded and installed the latest drivers.

The major problem is that all the texture maps in the GUI are totally trashed (random bits).

I'd like to help debug the problem if you don't have access to this hardware. I'm a Torque Engine licensee and I have DX9c and MSVC 2003 installed on this machine, so I can debug the problem if you'd like me to.

Let me know,
-Jim
Ubutopia's profile picture
Torque Owner Ubutopia

About the author

Recent Threads

  • RTS Starter Kit Questions
    • NextNext Thread
    PrevPrevious Thread
    More from Torque Game Engine


    Torque Owner Ace
    #1
    09/27/2004 (5:06 am)
    Dood! its must be your settings, i just bought a Geforce 5700 and it worked fine right from the box, did you remove all traces of the old driver before you installed the new?

    Does your 5600 have the pixel engine? if so you will see something like this in your console log.

    Direct 3D device found

    Cur. D3DDevice ref count=1
    Pix version detected: 2.000000
    Vert version detected: 2.000000
    Initializing GFXCardProfiler (D3D9)
    o Vendor : 'NVIDIA'
    o Card : 'GeForce FX 5700LE'
    o Version: '61.77'
    - Scanning card capabilities...
    GFXCardProfiler (D3D9) - Setting capability 'autoMipMapLevel' to true.
    - Loading card profiles...
    - Exec'ing profile/D3D9.cs
    - Exec'ing profile/D3D9.NVIDIA.cs
    - No profile/D3D9.NVIDIA.GeForceFX5700LE.cs
    - No profile/D3D9.NVIDIA.GeForceFX5700LE.6177.cs

    Torque 3D Owner Marco Meier
    Slickware Games
    #2
    09/27/2004 (5:20 am)
    I got a GeforceFX 5700go in my laptop and it runs just fine.
    So it's not the card. It should run just fine out of the box.

    Torque Owner Thomas Glennow
    #3
    09/28/2004 (7:05 am)
    I'm running it on an FX 5600. It's slow, since they crippled some of the shader stuff, but it runs.

    Torque Owner Ben Woodhead
    #4
    09/28/2004 (8:02 am)
    Are you running the demo version or are you running a version from cvs. As far as I know the demo version is old.

    Ben

    Torque Owner Brian Ramage
    Black Jacket Games
    #5
    09/28/2004 (2:51 pm)
    The demo version is older than the version in CVS, but it should be stable and run fine on everything. Let us know if you figure out the prob.

    Torque Owner Ubutopia
    #6
    09/28/2004 (5:08 pm)
    I'll try un-installing and re-installing the driver, but I seriously doubt a user would put up with something like this.

    I'm running the demo, not a version I've built. I'm considering buying the TSE, but I do not currently own it.

    Obviously I'd like to see it run on the hardware I use first.

    Associate Kyle Carter
    #7
    09/28/2004 (6:11 pm)
    User tolerance for drivers is something you should take up with the manufacturer, not us... At least our code will warn you what the issue is. Most games will simply fail or chug. :)

    Anyway, I strongly suggest using driver cleaner and then giving us the same snippet of your console.log Ace did. That will help us identify the problem and get you running TSE ASAP.

    Torque Owner Wysardry
    #8
    09/28/2004 (6:25 pm)
    The TSE demo runs on my FX 5200, and unless Nvidia have some strange numbering system that must be older or less capable than your FX 5600.

    I'm using Windows 98 with DirectX 9b and the latest video drivers.

    As for end users not putting up with driver problems, you should bear in mind that TSE is still in the alpha stage of development and pushes the graphics beyond those of the average game.