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by Desmond Fletcher · in Torque Game Engine · 12/11/2001 (12:29 pm) · 8 replies

Don't know if this is a bug, change between versions, or what:

I was able to run Release1.1 on my Dell Latitude with (sorry to say) ATI Mobility Pro video card. I cannot run the HEAD release on it. Seems to be conflicting with ATI02KA1.dll. (PS. I can run Q3 on the laptop).

PSS. Torquedemo finds the unhandled exception during the Loading Objects portion of the mission load.
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Torque Owner Tim Gift
#1
12/12/2001 (9:32 am)
We haven't been making any explicit graphics changes that could be causing compatibility problems (at least that I know of). Is it actually crashing in the ATI dll itself? Or in the code somewhere. If you could run it in the debugger and get us some more information, that would be great!

Torque 3D Owner Frank Bignone
Darkhand Studio
#2
12/12/2001 (10:12 am)
On my laptop, Torque demo only runs with the lastest drivers from ATI (I also have an ATI Pro Mobility...) and DX8 installed.

Torque Owner Desmond Fletcher
fletcher
#3
12/12/2001 (12:28 pm)
I have the latest drivers for the ATIcard, but I just installed DirectX 8.1....now all is well. But it was working for a while before I upgraded DirectX-- go figure!

Torque Owner Edward Gardner
#4
12/12/2001 (1:53 pm)
How much video memory do those laptops have?

I have a mobility pro, but I could never get it to run on the laptop. Mine only has 8 megs, so I assumed that was the problem?

Torque 3D Owner Frank Bignone
Darkhand Studio
#5
12/12/2001 (2:09 pm)
My laptop is a compaq armada 700 with 8 mb of video and AGP support I think, and 192 Mb of RAM.

Torque Owner Edward Gardner
#6
12/12/2001 (2:32 pm)
So, the latest ATI drivers and DX8.1 and I should be able to run Torque, eh?

Torque 3D Owner Frank Bignone
Darkhand Studio
#7
12/12/2001 (2:46 pm)
One important things, you should run the application in D3D mode. On my laptop, OpenGL is *very* slow; and D3D works fine. Sometimes some textures are weird, but the application is ok.

Torque Owner Desmond Fletcher
fletcher
#8
12/13/2001 (1:36 pm)
Not sure if Ram is a prob Frank. But I've got 512 MB in the Dell Latitude P3-850 with the Rage Mobility 128 AGP 4x. Everythings working great with Torque now. So it must have been one of the Heisenbugs (as Tim says :)