A weird graphics issue

Wolfcat · 11-25-17, 05:20 AM

I recently came back to play a bit DW and ran into a weird issue. When I entered the main menu, I only see a submarine in the middle of the screen. The menu items on the right side are invisible. Sometimes when I hover my mouse over them, they appear briefly and start flickering. The game is running and background music is playing. I can enter each menu item such as options etc, but I just can't see anything. I used to play this game fine on this machine and never had this issue before. This is a plain vanilla install, no mod, no nothing.

p7p8 · 11-25-17, 07:13 AM

Windows XP, 7, 8, 10?

Wolfcat · 11-25-17, 03:07 PM

Win7. Btw, how do I post a screen shot in this forum?

p7p8 · 11-25-17, 07:44 PM

You can use hosting services, for example imgur.

I use win 7 and i had not any issues with graphics. It could be old drivers or broken instalation. But first try to change settings for cursor:

Only one problem i've had was with strange mouse flickering. Change this to opposite:

Quote:

[Graphics]
.MapStretch No
.ScreenStretchQuality 3
.ParticleMax 500
.ParticleRate 5
.LocalLights Yes
.TransparentWater No
.WantRain Yes
.Disable3D No
.Want3DClouds Yes
.WantVegetation Yes
.AdapterID 0
.DeviceID 0
.ModeID 2
.DetailTextures Yes
.BlendTextures Yes
.Caustics Yes
.WaterParticles Yes
.WaterReflectionQuality 3
.WaterQuality 4
.WaterDrawMethod 1
.CameraFOV 60
.WantShadows No
.ModelDetailTex Yes
.RunInWindow Yes
.Gamma ""
.SoftwareCursor No

(It's from my config - not all options can be good for you)

Wolfcat · 11-25-17, 08:37 PM

I see. How do I completely remove the game? It seems after reinstalling the problem persists. I wonder if any old broken files still remained.

Wolfcat · 11-25-17, 09:25 PM

Finally figured out why. For nvidia driver, Antialiasing mode needs set to off or application controlled. Gosh, I lost every old missions and campaigns from reinstalling.

Barleyman · 11-25-17, 10:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wolfcat

Finally figured out why. For nvidia driver, Antialiasing mode needs set to off or application controlled. Gosh, I lost every old missions and campaigns from reinstalling.

If you had Win8 (or 10), you'd have to run with this Directx wrapper too. No anti-alias there either. There is another wrapper (voodoo 3dfx of all things!) which does do anti-alias.. but it doesn't let you adjust gamma (from config file) so it's right out. Why? Well, narrowband signal lines can be a "little" hard to see on default gamma this day and hardware.

Never mind the AA, you're not really going to be looking at the 3D view much.

11-25-17, 05:20 AM	#1
Wolfcat Chief Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 325 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 0	A weird graphics issue I recently came back to play a bit DW and ran into a weird issue. When I entered the main menu, I only see a submarine in the middle of the screen. The menu items on the right side are invisible. Sometimes when I hover my mouse over them, they appear briefly and start flickering. The game is running and background music is playing. I can enter each menu item such as options etc, but I just can't see anything. I used to play this game fine on this machine and never had this issue before. This is a plain vanilla install, no mod, no nothing.

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11-25-17, 07:13 AM	#2
p7p8 Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 742 Downloads: 136 Uploads: 6	Windows XP, 7, 8, 10?

11-25-17, 03:07 PM	#3
Wolfcat Chief Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 325 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 0	Win7. Btw, how do I post a screen shot in this forum?

11-25-17, 08:37 PM	#5
Wolfcat Chief Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 325 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 0	I see. How do I completely remove the game? It seems after reinstalling the problem persists. I wonder if any old broken files still remained.

11-25-17, 09:25 PM	#6
Wolfcat Chief Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 325 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 0	Finally figured out why. For nvidia driver, Antialiasing mode needs set to off or application controlled. Gosh, I lost every old missions and campaigns from reinstalling.