icon color flicker and loss

[grimple]

i've loaded the game on a new laptop and the icons color goes in and out, mostly out. all the icon colors are the same,a light blue. the distortion comes threw on screen text like the auto-takeoff indication also, but not on the text window display.ive played with rez and reinstalled w/&w/out hi-reztexture. its as if the base background color is coming through tho the icon can still be seen.

[grimple]

  Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110622-1506)
           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.         
       System Model: Dell System Inspiron N7110
               BIOS: Default System BIOS
          Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
             Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8106MB RAM
          Page File: 2181MB used, 14029MB available
        Windows Dir: C:\Windows
    DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
   User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
 System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
    DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
     DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode

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DxDiag Notes
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      Display Tab 1: No problems found.
        Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
          Input Tab: No problems found.

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DirectX Debug Levels
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Direct3D:    0/4 (retail)
DirectDraw:  0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay:  0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow:  0/6 (retail)

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Display Devices
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          Card name: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
       Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
          Chip type: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
           DAC type: Internal
         Device Key:
     Display Memory: 1696 MB
   Dedicated Memory: 64 MB
      Shared Memory: 1632 MB
       Current Mode: 1600 x 900 (32 bit) (60Hz)
       Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
      Monitor Model: unknown
         Monitor Id: LGD02E1
        Native Mode: 1600 x 900(p) (60.080Hz)
        Output Type: Internal
        Driver Name: igdumd64.dll,igd10umd64.dll,igd10umd64.dll,igdumdx32,igd10umd32,igd10umd32
Driver File Version: 8.15.0010.2345 (English)
     Driver Version: 8.15.10.2345
        DDI Version: 10.1
       Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
  Driver Attributes: Final Retail
   Driver Date/Size: 3/26/2011 20:19:48, 8212480 bytes
        WHQL Logo'd: n/a
    WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
  Device Identifier: {D7B78E66-4256-11CF-B17A-D224A9C2C535}
          Vendor ID: 0x8086

[The Fugitive]

this is the part that it killing you....

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Display Devices
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          Card name: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
       Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
          Chip type: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family

Intel graphics are NOT meant for gaming. They handle web stuff ok but 3D graphics really kill them. A work around may be to turn down the graphics settings in the game, textures to 256 and turn down the eye candy.

[Skuzzy]

With the Intel video chip make sure the "Maximum Texture Size" is set to 128, and the game resolution is not higher than 1280x1024.  That might help.

Also make sure you keep on top of the video drivers as Intel video chips are very problematic, at best, for 3D games.

[grimple]

thank you for the help. Ive yet to mess with it much more. I was kind of figuring that the drivers haven't had time to being patched with the newer chip. I had tried to use a smaller screen resolution and textures at, what is it, 1024. ill try it at 128 and see if its linked to that. I hadn't figured that was it tho cause my old comp from 2002 with integrated graphics drew the textures right just at very slow fps. My bro has a newer duel core comp with a dedicated graphics card and he said he had a similar problem that all his icons are black,but i don't have details. another peculiar thing is that the laptop handled everything else fine but that the fps seemed to max out a 60fps lowering the resolution and other properties didn't bring them up. i hadn't thought the hertz would determine the fps seems maybe it does. I'll try to let you know if i work anything out.

[Tigger29]

thank you for the help. Ive yet to mess with it much more. I was kind of figuring that the drivers haven't had time to being patched with the newer chip. I had tried to use a smaller screen resolution and textures at, what is it, 1024. ill try it at 128 and see if its linked to that. I hadn't figured that was it tho cause my old comp from 2002 with integrated graphics drew the textures right just at very slow fps. My bro has a newer duel core comp with a dedicated graphics card and he said he had a similar problem that all his icons are black,but i don't have details. another peculiar thing is that the laptop handled everything else fine but that the fps seemed to max out a 60fps lowering the resolution and other properties didn't bring them up. i hadn't thought the hertz would determine the fps seems maybe it does. I'll try to let you know if i work anything out.

Integrated Intel graphics has all kinds of strange graphics anomalies regardless as to how good the performance is.   This isn't just a problem with Aces High... virtually all games with 3D engines have problems running properly with integrated graphics chips.  It's almost as if Intel doesn't believe that standards that ATI and Nvidia adhere to don't apply to them.

Simply put I wouldn't count on being able to reliably run any serious game with integrated graphics and definitely don't count on new video drivers ever coming out to correct all of it.  Computers with integrated graphics (and especially laptops with integrated graphics) simply aren't designed for this sort of thing.

[Skuzzy]

The 'black' bug is due to the 9000 series ATI vide card drivers.  All 9000 series ATI cards have this bug.  These video cards are not much better than the latest generation Intel video chips.