Serious graphics problem

[mrgoat]

Hello,

 I have a pretty bad graphics problem with the game. When I try to play (offline/online) all the graphics start flickering with very odd shapes shifting around. They are constant and make the game unplayable.

 I have adjusted all graphics settings in game (used every setting with the same results), downloaded all the latest drivers and even switched video cards. I am attaching a picture to give you an example.

 Here is my setup:

1.3ghz AMD Athlon
GeForce 4 MX 420 (64 mb)
Windows 2000
512mb RAM

 And here is the unfortunate results:



Mr Goat

[Fancy]

If you've switched video cards than it's not a compatibility issue.  Perhaps you should try to scratch your old copy of AH and reinstall from a freshly downloaded version....Just an idea.

[cobra427]

oooooo green....

[SKurj]

Did you try experimenting with the Disable palletized textures check box?

try a virus scan too  .. real long shot..

SKurj

i am using gf4 mx 440 with 40.41 drivers and no probs

[sprint]

Installing Video Drivers the right way


1> Go to ADD/REMOVE SOFTWARE in control panel and in the list of installed software, click on the entry that mentions your card drivers (or something similar) and press the REMOVE button. You'll have to reboot for it to finish.

2> After you come back up, right click the desktop, choose properties and go to the "Settings" tab. Click on the advanced button and on the "adapter" tab click the change button. Navigate your way through the dialogs so that you install the Standard VGA driver, which is one of the Standard Display
Drivers right at the top of the list of display adapter manufacturers.
You'll have to reboot again.

3> When your machine comes back up this time, it will be in 640x480 16 color mode, so it's not going to be pretty. That's okay. Use My Computer or Windows Explorer to navigate to C:\Windows\Inf and delete the two files there that end with the extension ".bin". Now go one folder further to C:\Windows\Inf\Other and delete any .inf file there with Card's name in it. The .inf files are what windows looks at when it wants info about your hardware. It stores the info it finds in those .bin files for fast easy access by the operating system later. You don't want windows to know anything about your old video card or the version of its drivers it was using, that's why you delete them. Windows will recreate the .bin files when you
load your new drivers, and the new drivers will have their own .inf file. When you see that little dialog pop up that says something to the effect "Windows is creating a database of driver information", that's what's happening... the .bin files are being created.

Now run the latest version driver install. It will ask you to reboot at the end and you should come up in 640x480 16-bit (65536) color mode. Change your resolution to what you like to run, and set the refresh to your preference and then you should be all set. You'll have to recreate any display driver profiles you had created before in the advanced display properties section.

PS: Their are also drivers cleaners such as "Detonator Destroyer", check around for one for your video card.


sprint

*MOL*

[mrgoat]

Fancy: Probably should have meantioned it, but I did the same thing four times thinkin that might be the problem

Skurj: Tried every single graphics option in game. I checked for viruses after you suggested it, its all clean.

Sprint: Thank you for your in depth explaination. I ended up doin ya one better. Was an old hard drive, and was planning on replacing it...decided to take this opportunity to reformat completely, and then downloaded latest drivers. It still didnt work.

After all that, I think it just may be that Aces High does not like my particular setup. I think I'll give a call to Hi Tech tomorrow with all my specs, so that they know which computer it will not run on

Mr Goat


EDIT: Oh and in case it makes a differance, the other video cards that I tried were the built in one on the HP Pavilion, and a GeForce 2 32mb

[Zygote]

same problem here, get green polygons and lots of flashing.  Just downloaded new drivers, uninstalled old drivers, reinstalled new drivers, reinstalled DX 8.1, reinstalled AH.

Nothing works - i have a geforce pro

[Skuzzy]

Try capping your frame rate to 45FPS in the video setup and see what happens.

If that does not cure it, check to see if v-sync is enabled or disabled.  It should be enabled.

Either of the above should correct the problem.

If that does not do it, please report the driver version you are using.
Does it occur in any plane?
Does it occur only when you are looking at the sky?

[BigMax]

mrgoat,

I posted this for Hyena too...  (It should help)

Go to The Guru of 3D WebPage and read about the Detonator Destroyer program. It should help you out. The sight has a ton of info about nVidia Drivers. They seem to NOT uninstall properly, when you update your drivers. There are step-by-step instructions to help you get it resolved.

I had a GF2 MX that had tons of problems too... Mostly with Win2K. You must also ensure that you have the proper Monitor driver (Just as important as your VidCard Driver).

Check the sight I referred to and your monitor drivers... I'll check back in here later...

Cyas Up!

[MWHUN]

That screen shot looks like DX corruption to me…

[mrgoat]

Skuzzy: I have tried every video option with the game, they all produce the same results.

The driver version I am using is the 30.82 for Win2k/WinXP. I tried the latest drivers as well, but they still produced the same results. It does happen in every plane, no matter where I am looking. The screenshot I took is after managing to find a plane (as the tower and hanger looks the same) and trying to take off.


BigMax: I went to that site and downloaded Detonator Destroyer. It produced an error and crashed when I used it though. I dont think that old drivers are the problem, as I did a full format of my hard drive yesterday (see my last post) and installed everything from scratch.


I also do not think that it is a geforce problem, because it did the same thing with the built in video card on my HP Pavilion.

I went out on a limb and tried using a differant monitor (used a 18 inch LCD) and it still produces the same result.

Also, I did download the latest DirectX 8.1 drivers.


Thanks tons for your guys help

Mr Goat

[TIGS]

I have almost identical settings that MrGoat has for his computer and I'm experiencing the same thing  - green polygon textures, whiteouts from time to time at the start menu, unable to fly at all. I've tried everything else there is in this forum except the detonator destroyer which I don't think will solve this problem.

Here's my settings:
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1.53 GHz CPU
256 MB RAM (upgrading 512 MB to total it up to 768 MB soon)
Windows 2000 Professional (upgrading to XP Pro soon also)
nVidia GeForce 4 MX 420 (MIGHT upgrade to Radeon 9700 - new puter or this one, unsure)
17 in. CRT monitor - .27 mm dot pitch (not that it does anything to the game)

Someone has said that it might be a DX corruption that's causing the problem - I'm inclined to agree with him since I've tried everything else except checking out win2k directx settings - will see if there's a dx 9.0 beta driver out there and try it out to see if it solves the problem.

Can anyone give me a number to call HiTech support about this problem. Thanks.

If you've talked to them already, Goat - please let me know what they're saying. I would like to have this game work for me while I'm offline and unable to do anything much during those times.

Admiral Tiger
--Hogan Heroes - Colonel --

[Skuzzy]

What are the frame rates showing when this occurs?

[TIGS]

I haven't been able to get to the tower and see the frame rate since a couple of days already because I've been getting white-outs after starting AH - no way around the problem yet.

 've tried everything else except experimenting with directx 8.1b (unsure what version of DX i have on this puter right now as I'm downloading this driver). I think it's an issue between GeForce cards and Windows 2K and XP incompatibility with Aces High -

Is there any other people with the same configurations (Win 2K or XP, GeForce cards) having the same problem or are they doing great with the game? Let me know, and thanks for replying back asap, Skuzzy.

Admiral Tiger
--Hogan Heroes - Colonel --

[fuzeman]

Can anyone give me a number to call HiTech support about this problem. Thanks.

Admiral Tiger
--Hogan Heroes - Colonel -- [/B][/QUOTE]

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