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Render problems

by Jay Arrera · in Torque Game Engine · 07/21/2007 (3:52 pm) · 5 replies

Running the demo or any compiled games, I see really bad run-time rendering artificats. I tried contacting Tech Support, but after a week, I still have not received any response.

Below are a couple of screenshots:
http://www.jayarrera.com/files/render.jpg
http://www.jayarrera.com/files/artifacts.jpg

System Information:
OS: Windows
CPU: Dual Core 2 Ghz
Memory: 2 GB
Video Card: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
Sound Card: SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC
Hard Disk: 2 GB free
Connection: Broadband

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jay
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Torque 3D Owner Jay Crossler
#1
07/21/2007 (6:09 pm)
Do you have the newest graphics drivers for your computer's graphics card installed? Also, the newest DirectX loaded from microsoft? I've seen the same things before, and it's either an incompatible card, or old drivers.

Torque Owner Jay Arrera
#2
07/21/2007 (9:38 pm)
I appear to have gotten it to work.

I had the most recent video driver, so I:
- Uninstalled files that came with 3DGPAi1 and the 1.5.2 Indie license.
- Did a clean install of the 1.5.2 engine.
- Switched from OpenGL to D3D display drivers.

Switching to D3D drivers seems to have solved it. I still get the artificacts with OpenGL, but at least now I have something functional. OpenGL may not be compatible with Vista/my video driver.

Thanks for your help,

Jay

Torque Owner Tim Heldna
#3
07/21/2007 (10:08 pm)
It's that ATI have very poor OpenGL support, they always have. I stick to NVIDIA based cards solely for that reason.

Torque 3D Owner Marc L Thibeault
#4
07/30/2007 (5:10 am)
Yeah I have this artifact too with Open GL since I switch to Windows Vista.

I update my video driver every time they release a new driver for Vista but they didn't fix it yet :( But the strange thing is I have a good amount of game running under Open gl on my computer and I don't have this kind of problem :/

It seems the torque game engine do something that Open gl don't like.

I have an ATI Radeon X1900.

Torque Owner Nic Biondi
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#5
08/21/2007 (12:20 am)
Oh man, at least I'm not the only one. I seemed like no one mentioned this crappy issue. ATI can lik my ballz, I will never buy another card from them for this reason. Punting it off to my retarded laptop vendor isn't a solution ppl.. anyways thanks for letting me vent.

So one nasty problem, is that TGB doesn't seem to have D3D support for their 3d stuff.. so it's kinda opengl or nothing huh? If they allowed you to use d3d at least the rest of us could get something working while the drivers are getting fixed. Sort of makes it a dead platform for some of us. Mr Garagegames, are you aware of the problem stemming from vistas crappy opengl support, and your non-existant d3d support for GameBuilder? Please help!!! It's been 5 months now!!! AAAH