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Offline AKHog

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How can I fix this problem in the clouds?
« on: September 26, 2008, 12:06:10 AM »
I have this problem when flying in clouds. Its actually much worse than what I was able to capture in the screen shots. Its makes any kind of fighting impossible, and it flashes and changes so fast its nauseating to even look at. What do I need to change to get it to stop?

I have a laptop with the Core Duo T2350 1.8 ghz processor, 2 gb ram, and on board video. I run AH in 1024x600 wide screen with 256 texture size and most of the in game graphics options turned all the way down/off.

I don't expect the best performance with this setup but I just wonder if I can do anything to fix these obvious graphics problems while flying around clouds?


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Offline The Fugitive

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Re: How can I fix this problem in the clouds?
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2008, 07:34:31 AM »
post the first third of your Dxdiag here. It will show everyone what video card you have and the driver for it. Sometime someone may be able to suggest a different driver that might help clear that up.
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Offline gpwurzel

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Re: How can I fix this problem in the clouds?
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2008, 07:39:39 AM »
Do you have antialiasing turned on? Looks like tearing to me......turning aa on should fix it......


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Re: How can I fix this problem in the clouds?
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2008, 08:02:50 AM »
Or perhaps post this in the tech support forum.
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Offline OOZ662

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Re: How can I fix this problem in the clouds?
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2008, 09:51:28 AM »
Quote from: AKHog on September 26, 2008, 12:06:10 AM
on board video.

You may wish to check the quality of your onboard chip. Seeing as it's a laptop I can't throw the immediate "It sucks!" that desktop onboard chips receive, but this is likely a hardware issue. If it is a quality card, I suggest looking into drivers (not necessarily NEW drivers, but which ones suit your card through research).
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Re: How can I fix this problem in the clouds?
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2008, 10:06:17 AM »
I had that same problem with my old vid card setup - on board graphics
Things that helped at the time
went down to 128 --I do not know how the widescreen setup affects graphics - may be a problem - i don't know
downloaded FS autostart -turns off a lot of the unnecessary programs running in the background -  if you have vista - i dont know if they have updated the program - you need to check that
I read Waffles post about video tips in the forums - made a huge difference, some of the tweaks
But the only thing that really got rid of that eventually was to get a graphics card - the onboard video setups just don't seem to cut it.

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Re: How can I fix this problem in the clouds?
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2008, 10:24:09 AM »
Looks like the video solution your laptop has can't handle transparency.  So it fakes it with the crap that is shown in your screenshots.  Since its a laptop I don't have a solution for you, just this observation.
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Re: How can I fix this problem in the clouds?
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2008, 10:24:51 AM »
Onboard video chips should always use 256, or less, for the game's "Maximum Texture Size".  Anything higher than that and all bets are off.
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Re: How can I fix this problem in the clouds?
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2008, 01:49:08 PM »
Aside from the 'onboard video' issue... you might want to try AlacrityPC just dont use the online update function because its bugged and I dont think there has been a fix yet.
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Re: How can I fix this problem in the clouds?
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2008, 12:11:39 AM »
Quote from: Nwbie on September 26, 2008, 10:06:17 AM
FS autostart

AlacrityPC is the next version of FSAutoStart by the same author.
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