Not sure about this......bug or not? (NOT, FIXED)

[uniquemind]

Take alook at this screenshot of the sky, I am not sure if this should be posted in the bug thread or not, as I guess I am hoping that it is down to a graphical setting for my card, in which case I'd appreciate the help.........I mean it looks hideous



Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but I have'nt found anything in my search

UM

Try changing your graphics settings a bit higher/lower and see if there is any fix, if not, probably a image glitch...
Sue da UBI, maybe you get a few hundred dollars and who knows, a juiced 8800GTX or X1950XT?:hmm:
Kidding, just try playing with the game menu options or try your video card control panel and increase settings if possible....
Help & support is on the way...

[uniquemind]

Yeah I'd love a spanking new card, but my system needs a whole new system if you know what I mean, this current setup is as far as it can go so in a year and a halfs time I can upgrade, but I'd love UBI to grant me my wish, but no hope there nice thought though

I'm just not sure what settings to alter in my control panel, I have the ATI Tools, instead of the CCC as I heard that it uses up too many resources, so I have the above mentioned ATI Tools instead, but alot of it is greek to me, I know a few but not many, and also what they do, I'd experiment gladly if I knew it would'nt hurt my system

Thanks though, I'd rather like to believe that it is a glitch, and that UBI can sort this, everything crossed right now

Uniquemind

OK, try this:
1. Update the latest drivers...
2. Go to ATI control panel, and under 3D [advanced view] set the slider to quality.
Apply & OK.
If the problem persists, well, that is a highly possibility of 2 things:
1. Game settings too low
2. Game issue [or some weird bad-ass protection]...

[uniquemind]

Hi GakunGak,

I will try that thank you, however, I tried this morning and played the artillery training and the sky was certainly better than that screenshot, and it also was fine in my career, I find that most odd, last night that and this morning ok.

Only one thing I can think of that maybe caused that although why it should is beyond me, but I have been minimizing the game so that I could come here to post if anything was amiss/bug etc...... in the game and after having posted or whatever I went back into the game and thats when I looked up to take a plane out and saw that weird sky.

Maybe I am in the wrong ball park here, but I'll have a go at your suggestion and post back either way if its better or not

Many thanks

UM

[uniquemind]

Please excuse double post but here is a better sky, I only altered 1 option within my control panel for the graphics card:

Enable Geometry instancing = checked (not sure if that was responsible but everything else stayed the same before I posted this thread

These are the Catalyst 7.3's don't think they have been out for long, was using much older drivers before, but that was a case of having too as other problems arose using the 7.2's





Thanks for your help GakunGak

Uniquemind

Glad you did it!!!
But beware, until at least 5 patches, I do not recommend ALT+TAB of the game, for stability measures...
Take care,
GakunGak!
And as always, me being a smug!

[uniquemind]

Thanks,

No I don't use Alt-Tab, I am able to use the Windows key to minimize the game, but I'm going to stop doing that too, just incase it causes adverse effects


Cheers

Uniquemind

Win key or alt tab is the same effect....
And yeah, you are advised that next time when posting links from imageshack.us that you use "Thumbnail for forums" code, so that the page is not stretched out wide...
Good hunting, skip!
And me, always being a smug!

[uniquemind]

Hi GakunGak,

Sorry but I was not aware that my screenshots are stretching out wide, I was using links to Photbucket...............sorry if this happens from there too

As for the problem, I'm sorry also to report that its back loud and horribly clear, (worried to put a screenshot incase it comes out as stretched)

I was playing fine and then went into the nav map view and set the tc to 64, sometimes higher and sometimes lower, I then reached where I was meant to be only to find when on the bridge that the sky was the same as seen in screenshot 1.

I'm feeling so dejected and frustrated by all the problems, and not just mine, I feel everyones pain

Uniquemind

[Ark]

Originally Posted by GakunGak

Glad you did it!!!
But beware, until at least 5 patches, I do not recommend ALT+TAB of the game, for stability measures...
Take care,
GakunGak!
And as always, me being a smug!

I ALT-TAB out of the game all of the time. No issues here.

I wonder if that is an ATI issue with the game?

[XanderF]

That looks like the mipmap detail is set too low. I don't have that on mine, either, and I *do* have an ATI card.

Make sure the Mipmap setting is "High Quality". I don't recall a "Geometry instancing" option, though - you are running ATI's stock CCC, right? Not the Omega drivers or anything? If so, you want to use the standard driver - Omega's are quite buggy in this manner. I suppose for 'popular' games they are fine, but they introduced BUCKETS of glitches like this in niche titles.

[uniquemind]

I do have Mipmap detail set to high quality, I've got an ATI X800 Pro 256MB and the latest 7.3 drivers

I can't make it out at all, at a loss as to what to do

[uniquemind]

Oh dear I am in big bother now as I did try the Omega drivers and although I cleared out my last sets I tried with Driver Cleaner Pro, in my add remove programs there are 2 entries that say:

Radeon Omega Drivers v3.8.252 Setup Files and Tools
Radeon Omega Drivers v3.8.330 Setup Files and Tools

When I try to remove them I get:

Invalid uninstal control file: C:\Program Files\Radeon Omega Drivers\version 3.8.252\Omega Uninstal.xml

And then this error comes up for the second one aswell......I guess this might be causing problems with my 7.3's

What have I done and how to get rid of the damn things!!

[Mud]

On Windows XP ? system recovery

Mud