Graphics problem
 

Hello,

Got a small prob im hoping you guys might have an answer.:damn:

Installed sh3 and gwx few days back and everything has been working fine, however last night i noticed that i no longer see explosions, tracers, fire, smoke etc. I have searched and searched and cant find an answer. Im hoping its as simple as changing a variable in the configs.

any help would be much appreciated.:cry:

Um..how about some information on your GFX card for a start?

PC Specs:

ATI x1900xtx
amd64 4000+
2gb MEM

as i said its been running fine and all of a sudden i no longer see expolsion effects etc. I have a feeling something has been changed in the game configs but i have no idea where to look.

Hmm..should run flawlessly on that card... did you make any changes to the card's settings by means of the Catalyst Control centre?

nothing has been changed at all.:-?

Check the particles setting within the SH3 Options > Video menu. Make sure it's at 100%

Everything is ticked and particle density is set to 100%.

im now trying a reinstall keeping my saved games intact. fingers crossed.

i fixed it but not in the way i wanted too.

after reinstall i still had the same prob, i then took the plunge and deleted the sh3 folder in my documents and to my surprise the smoke/fire effects etc were working again.

I guess 1 of the configs had been changed and was removing the effects.:damn: Thankfully i had only started my career 2 days ago.

If anyone has experienced this before and knows a fix for it can you please tell me incase it happens again, touch wood.

cheers.:arrgh!:

Perhaps that was the only fix. If I'm not mistaken the files can become corrupt and the only answer is a complete reinstall. Oh well, we all live and learn. Sometimes I don't learn....

Whenever you do a reinstall of SHIII you gotta get rid of the My docs folder as well or else you'll have probs. I've found that whenever I reinstalled due to a problem or reconfig for a major mod, I had to hide, rename or delete the MyDocs SHIII folder.