DW Image Corruption

[zakarpatska]

Hi All,

I've installed DW on a new laptop and I'm having an image corruption problem. Has anyone seen this before and if so is there a fix for it?



Any help would be apreciated. I was really looking forward to installing DWX and playing it on my new laptop.

My system is an ASUS G73J. System information is below:

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
System Model G73Jh
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz, 1600 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. G73Jh.211, 27/07/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB

The graphics card information is:
Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68A0&SUBSYS_1C021043&REV_00\4&1DD 391AA&0&0018
Adapter Type ATI display adapter (0x68A0), ATI Technologies Inc. compatible
Adapter Description ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series
Adapter RAM 1.00 GB (1,073,741,824 bytes)
Installed Drivers aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,at icfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atidxx64 .dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a. cap,atitmm64.dll
Driver Version 8.831.2.0
INF File oem28.inf (ati2mtag_Manhattan section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 65536
Resolution 1920 x 1080 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel 16
Memory Address 0xC0000000-0xD00FFFFF
Memory Address 0xD0020000-0xD003FFFF
I/O Port 0x0000D000-0x0000DFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 4294967290
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\atikmpag.sys (8.14.1.6195, 293.50 KB (300,544 bytes), 08/03/2011 11:17 PM)

Thanks,
Zakarpatska

[Krabb]

My guess: some problems with hardware or drivers (update required). But I'm not sure, never seen this problem before. Maybe your laptop is overheating?

[TLAM Strike]

Is it on all screens or just the sonar?

If its just on that screen try running decompress in the kilo interface folder to extract the sonarBB graphics and see if the image itself has those lines on it.

[Krabb]

It looks more like memory corruption (sonar data for display), rather than image corruption.

[zakarpatska]

Thanks for the replies so far. I don't believe that it is overheating or memory corruption as lots of other games work fine. Everthing from "Theatre of War" to "Lego Star Wars", "Silent Hunter 4", "Steel Beasts", "Call of Duty 2" and "Sid Meier's Pirates". The problem only occurs with "Dangerous Waters" and "Sub Command" so my guess is that it must be something specific to the Sonalysts games or at least the way the Sonalyst's game interact with the graphics driver or graphics chip.

Does anyone have either "Sub Command" or "Dangerous Waters" working with an ATI 5870 Mobility Radeon?

Any suggestions for things to try are welcome. I've downloaded and tried every ATI graphics driver from 10.9 to 11.3 and the problem occurs with all of them.

Where can I get "decompress"? I'd like to try TLAM Strikes suggestion to see if that helps.

Thanks again,
Zakarpatska

PS - I should mention that most screens in Dangerous waters work fine. The problem occurs only on a few screens, but unfortunately the Broadband screen is one of them.

[zakarpatska]

I don't know if it is significant, but I have the original version of "Dangerous Waters" that I ordered from the "Battlefront" web site.

Thanks,
Zakarpatska

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by zakarpatska

Where can I get "decompress"? I'd like to try TLAM Strikes suggestion to see if that helps.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=3122

[zakarpatska]

Thanks TLAM Strike.

I'm not sure how to use decompress.exe.

I ran "decompress.exe *.ndx" in the "Sonalysts Combat Simulations\Dangerous Waters\Interfaces\Kilo" directory, but I'm not sure it did anything. It did not generate any new files that I could tell.

For example I ran "decompress.exe" on the "SonarSSP.ndx" file:

C:\Games\Sonalysts Combat Simulations\Dangerous Waters\Interfaces\Kilo>c:\bin\decompress.exe SonarSSP.ndx

C:\Games\Sonalysts Combat Simulations\Dangerous Waters\Interfaces\Kilo>dir SonarSSP.*
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 1647-1A7B

Directory of C:\Games\Sonalysts Combat Simulations\Dangerous Waters\Interfaces\Kilo

27/01/2005 02:35 PM 98,304 SonarSSP.dll
17/02/2004 01:04 PM 1,629,679 SonarSSP.grp
17/02/2004 01:04 PM 800 SonarSSP.ndx
3 File(s) 1,728,783 bytes
0 Dir(s) 155,137,757,184 bytes free

Am I doing something wrong? Also is there a way I could load up the game graphics in MS Paint so that I could have a look at them?

I apologize for being so dense.

Thanks again for your help,
Zakarpatska

[Arrowhead2k1]

Exact same problem here on my lappy. ATI 6370M and Core i7.

Sucks. I'm living overseas right now and only have my lappy. I just downloaded DW from Steam.

[0rpheus]

Have you tried deactivating the steam overlay in the game's settings within steam? I'm sure I had that issue when I had an ATI card, but I can't remember what I did to fix it!

Windows compatibility mode maybe?

[Arrowhead2k1]

Overlay was already off. And no joy with the compatibility modes.

[Captain Nemo]

Could it be a resolution issue? Try playing in a lower resolution and see if it helps. I seem to recall SC having graphics issues when I tried to play it at 1280x1024. Lowering the resolution corected the problem.

Nemo