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Title: Radar icons and sector counter colors
Post by: Gypsy Baron on May 24, 2004, 05:53:22 PM
Since the beginning, as I recall, and currently both
friendly and enemy radar "dots" are black.

This is true also of the sector counters.

And yes, I do have the friendly=green and enemy=red
set correctly in setup.

I asked online yesterday and a few others reported
the same problems. I believe they also had Radeon cards.

Is this a known issue? If so, why has it been around so
long without being fixed? If not already known, then
this post should make it so....
Title: Radar icons and sector counter colors
Post by: zanshin on May 25, 2004, 06:50:26 AM
I see friedly dar and icons on planes in squad colour for some and green as set for others
Title: Radar icons and sector counter colors
Post by: SlapShot on May 25, 2004, 08:40:43 AM
ATI Radeon 9600 AIW Pro AGP 8X 128MB RAM

When was the last time you updated your drivers and what version do you have running right now ?
Title: Radar icons and sector counter colors
Post by: Max on May 25, 2004, 09:03:40 AM
This was addressed by Skuzzy in the beta arena a few days ago - update your v card drivers.

DmdMax
Title: Radar icons and sector counter colors
Post by: Gypsy Baron on May 25, 2004, 02:04:57 PM
Quote
Originally posted by DMax
This was addressed by Skuzzy in the beta arena a few days ago - update your v card drivers.

DmdMax


 That's NOT gonna happen! I will not play "update your
 drivers if you have a problem"...especially with an ATI
 card.

 My past experience with attempting to update drivers
 on my previous system with an ATI AIW Pro was that
 almost every time it PORKED my TV tuner installation
 and when it didn't it still tequired me to re-install the
 ATI MMC stuff, resulting in having to re-do all channel
 information.

 These drivers work just fine for everything else and
 I'm NOT gonna chase my tail with driver updates until
 AHII is stable and in a non-beta condition!
 
     =GB=
Title: Radar icons and sector counter colors
Post by: Gypsy Baron on May 25, 2004, 02:10:25 PM
Quote
Originally posted by SlapShot
ATI Radeon 9600 AIW Pro AGP 8X 128MB RAM

When was the last time you updated your drivers and what version do you have running right now ?


 Acdcording to DxDiag:

   6.14.0010.6378

 That's what came with the system when I had it
 built in September.

 I'm not about to go through the "clean your system of
 ALL ATI references prior to upgrading drivers" exercise.
 It's just not worth it. I'll live with the black icons...

 Thanks for the feedback DMax and Slapshot.

    =GB=
Title: Radar icons and sector counter colors
Post by: Cobra412 on May 25, 2004, 02:45:51 PM
Sorry but you'll probably always have black icons if your unwilling to update your drivers properly.  You can't complain about an issue if you won't fix the issues you already have with your pc.  Your using outdated drivers and thats it.  Simple fact is ATI would not be updating their drivers if they didn't already know there were issues with them.
Title: Radar icons and sector counter colors
Post by: TDeacon on May 26, 2004, 01:01:47 AM
For what it's worth, I bought my Dell 8300 late last year (I believe).  Just updated to the latest (Dell approved) driver for the ATI video card, and it fixed the radar color problem.  Doubt I got the latest ATI drivers this way, but was a painless automatic install.  Didn't have to un-install anything.

My system:
Dell Dimension 8300 (6-month-old computer).
Pentium 4 3GHz
256MB DDR ATI Radeon 9800 XT with driver 6.14.0010.6414
512 MB RAM
Windows XP
DirectX 9.0b

Title: Radar icons and sector counter colors
Post by: usarmy on May 26, 2004, 01:18:31 AM
I had the same problems until I updated my ATI 9800 128 with the new drivers...fixed it straightaway!

Blast
CO, Rogue Squadron
"Shoot Em in the Face!"
Title: Radar icons and sector counter colors
Post by: detch01 on May 26, 2004, 09:15:23 AM
I'm showing a whole slew of people not in my squad in squad highlight in the game. I've installed the latest nvidia drivers and then installed the latest omega driver on top to cure a stuttering problem. No improvement in dar dot/icon colors. Just so you know, there is a bug here - black dots notwithstanding.
Title: Radar icons and sector counter colors
Post by: WilldCrd on May 26, 2004, 11:52:23 AM
Quote
Originally posted by detch01
I'm showing a whole slew of people not in my squad in squad highlight in the game. I've installed the latest nvidia drivers and then installed the latest omega driver on top to cure a stuttering problem. No improvement in dar dot/icon colors. Just so you know, there is a bug here - black dots notwithstanding.


For some reason if your on the same vox channel as others they show up in squad colors
Title: Radar icons and sector counter colors
Post by: detch01 on May 26, 2004, 01:34:04 PM
Quote
Originally posted by WilldCrd
For some reason if your on the same vox channel as others they show up in squad colors


I have "4 squad" selected in vox.