Author Topic: Clipping of ships from display with Voodoo 5500 (Read 319 times)

streakeagle · « **on:** December 31, 2000, 10:03:00 AM »

I originally posted this in the Hardware and software category... but this appears to be the more correct category.

Is it just me? Every time I get near ships and approach certain angles, the ships & PT boats completely disappear. Then slowly reappear.
While landing on the aircraft carrier, sometimes I may only see a wake and the elevators. Then I hit some magic angle (conveniently as I am approaching touchdown) where I can see the whole thing again.

Strafing PT boats has proved difficult as they disappear right as I line up and get in range.

I am using a 650 MHz Pentium III on an ASUS CUV4X motherboard with a Voodoo 5500 AGP video card. I have all of the latest drivers and bios versions installed.

Aside from these glitches... it looks great with framerates from 30 fps in the fleet to 70 fps out in the clear blue sky.

Any assistance on resolving this problem would be greatly appreciated

Lephturn · « **Reply #1 on:** December 31, 2000, 12:49:00 PM »

I don't see any of these problems with my V5 5500. (Athlon 700, 256 Megs, DX8, latest V5 drivers here.)

What resolution/color depth are you running? Do you have Direct X 8 and the latest V5 drivers? I run 1024x768 32 bit and 2X FSAA.

Also, under your video setup there are two check boxes, "Disable Tripple buffering" and "Z Buffer". Both of these boxes are clear for me.

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streakeagle · « **Reply #2 on:** December 31, 2000, 03:03:00 PM »

I run 1024x768 with 32 bit color and no anti-aliasing (slows down too much even at 2x), and I am using directX 8.0

streakeagle · « **Reply #3 on:** December 31, 2000, 03:27:00 PM »

Problem solved, thanks for the help. It had nothing to do with any of the Voodoo settings... it was the boxes you mentioned in the video config... now I can see to land and kill PTs

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #4 on:** December 31, 2000, 10:56:00 PM »

Glad you got it resolved... I had the same problem with my TNT and TNT2 ultra.

The "z-buffer" box should be banned from the face of the earth. Its caused this complaint more than once.

AKDejaVu