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Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Misfit on September 11, 2004, 10:22:44 PM

I dont know if this had been brought up before or not? I will be flying for a while when #BLAME# everything on the screen goes white and all the textures are reloaded. This usually happens over an enm base.

This has happened with 2 different video cards.


XP Pro service pack 2
2ghz P4
Shuttle 60R motherboard
512 DDR 400 Crucial
Audigy Gamer
FX5900XT/FX5700Ultra
DX9C

All current drivers. Both video cards we installed at seperate times. I also just put in TrackIR PRO (Cant remember if the problem started after i hooked this up)

Any Ideas?

O and im using 512 textures
1024 x 768
Vertical sync On
32bit color

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Telstar on September 12, 2004, 04:51:54 AM

I have the exact same problem, except it happened over a friendly field, a19

Thing is, it happened many times at the same field over the last few days

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Slash27 on September 12, 2004, 06:05:09 AM

Has become vey common for me too lately.

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Don on September 12, 2004, 10:37:07 AM

Me too and then I tried the following:

I checked off the box in vid. settings which allows me to load all textures into system mem. then I restricted my FPS to 60 fps, instead of unlimited, and I have no more problems. This uses a lot of memory but, it doesn't seem to have any negative effects, as opposed to what I was getting before I did this.

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Misfit on September 12, 2004, 11:05:32 AM

hmm i guess i'll give that ago. Thanks Don S!.

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Elfie on September 12, 2004, 10:13:52 PM

I preload textures and my fr is already limited to 60 by my monitor and I still get textures reloading sometimes. Usually at the worst possible moment too. I am using an FX5700LE card.

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: zmeg on September 13, 2004, 12:01:00 AM

I've seen AH use over 700 megs of ram(although thats with 1024 textures) most likely with only 512 megs you're running out of ram.

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Misfit on September 13, 2004, 12:12:29 AM

What cards are you other guys using?
Im starting to see a pattern here, so far it looks like FX cards:(

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Delirium on September 13, 2004, 12:18:40 PM

Yep, I have the same problem with the exact same card. When I dump the preloaded stuff on the ram, it happens less, but when I pre-load it onto the vid card its awful.

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Misfit on September 13, 2004, 01:16:11 PM

Well i tried the preload to ram and 60fps max. Im affraid to say it didnt work :mad:

Gonna go ahead and put my 5700ultra back in, its faster.

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Misfit on September 13, 2004, 01:58:49 PM

anyone notice if this started with last set of nvidia drivers, or maybe dx9c?
:confused:

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Misfit on September 13, 2004, 02:17:05 PM

Gonna try 56.72 driver set

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Telstar on September 13, 2004, 07:23:17 PM

system specs

XP home SP1 + most recent updates/security fixes

DX 9b

Athlon XP2500+ (1.83Gh- default)

512 Mb PC2700 RAM (at default speed/timings)

GeForce FX5600 256Mb (at default speed, set to performance)(52.16 drivers)

Asus A7V8X-X (onboard sound disabled from BIOS)

Audigy2 zs platinum pro for sound



Was using default textures 1024 i believe, and the pre loading into system ram was causing loss of UDP so i turned that off.


OK...

Today i bought 1Gb of crucial 2700 DDR ( i know i could have got the faster stuff and OC/d the frontside bus, but nothing i use this PC for needs that much speed except AH)

I also reduced the textures to 256Mb and set it to pre load into video ram

I'll try that and see what, if anything is different

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Misfit on September 14, 2004, 12:24:46 PM

56.72 drivers didnt fix it.:(

Hopefully Scuzzy will pop his head in here and maybe have some ideas.:)

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Telstar on September 14, 2004, 11:21:54 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Misfit
56.72 drivers didnt fix it.:(

Hopefully Scuzzy will pop his head in here and maybe have some ideas.:)

Yeah.......   Here you go Skuzzy, fix it please  :D

(http://www.telstar.dsl.pipex.com/Pics/telstar1.JPG)


Thanks :aok

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Misfit on September 16, 2004, 04:59:40 PM

Skuzzy,
Throw me a bone here. Even if ya dont have the answer but maybe something you would try, let me know i'll try it.

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: acetnt367th on September 17, 2004, 01:07:37 PM

Misfit,

Email him directly at support@hitechcreations.com


One way to ensure that he is aware of you problem.


Acetnt

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Skuzzy on September 17, 2004, 01:26:07 PM

Misfit, I need to see your DXDIAG output.  There may be more going here than meets the eye.

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Misfit on September 17, 2004, 07:49:03 PM

Skuzzy-DxDiag (http://www.onpoi.net/ah/picpopup.php?ImgId=13118)

Hope this helps

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Elfie on September 20, 2004, 01:15:04 AM

Since I reformatted my harddrive I havent seen the textures reload yet. I had some SEVERE virus, trojan and spyware issues though.

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Misfit on September 20, 2004, 02:01:16 AM

I disabled other plane skins and went back to preloading textures in RAM. So far i have not had a problem in a few days.

Ya i run a virus scan regularly so hope i dont have any thing on the system.

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Elfie on September 20, 2004, 05:04:12 PM

You should also run scans for Trojans and Spyware. I had Norton anti virus installed (it was updated regularly also) and it didnt catch the viruses that were on my comp.

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Misfit on September 20, 2004, 05:04:20 PM

Nevermind Skuzzy.
Stick is trashed so am out of action for awhile.

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Misfit on September 20, 2004, 05:25:38 PM

so how did you end up finding em?

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Elfie on September 20, 2004, 07:08:09 PM

AVG (anti virus) found the viruses and Trojans, SpywareGuard found the spyware. But, so many problems had been created by all that malicious software, I would fix one thing and 2 more things would pop up. So I decided to just go with a fresh install of windows and add some security proggies to prevent (hopefully) this same scenario from happening again.

Silat directed me to the AVG AV software and some other software to help protect myself in the future. Also, he spent hours and hours on the phone with me trying to correct the issues I had.

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Elfie on September 20, 2004, 09:16:45 PM

Textures just now reloaded for the first time since a fresh install of windows.

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Misfit on September 21, 2004, 04:07:44 AM

Cant ever say enough good things about LEW! By far 1 of the best guys in this community!:D

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Elfie on September 22, 2004, 08:51:12 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Misfit
Cant ever say enough good things about LEW! By far 1 of the best guys in this community!:D

Agreed :)

Title: Texture Reload?
Post by: Misfit on September 23, 2004, 12:37:48 PM

HEY!
I think i have fixed it. Go ahead and Disable other players skins and see if that dont fix it for you guys.