got a bit of a prob, graphical anomalies

Capt. Shark Bait · 05-24-07, 10:24 PM

view from the bridge:

navigation map:

external cam:

that last one is simalir to the periscope view; the solid black tapering lines eminate from a target ship. any ideas on this? never happened before and the GPU temp wasn't all that high, less than 35c. tested it again and both maps turned pink and the ctrl rm looked like the 1st pic. any ideas? thx

skullman86 · 05-24-07, 10:51 PM

Have you made any recent changes to your computer? (program, driver, hardware....etc)

Capt. Shark Bait · 05-24-07, 10:57 PM

nope, just a coupla catalyst settings, but i can't really see it being that cuz now i can actually read the hydraphone dials, whereas before they were severely blurry and thought it was a resolution thing

U-Bones · 05-24-07, 11:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Capt. Shark Bait

nope, just a coupla catalyst settings, but i can't really see it being that cuz now i can actually read the hydraphone dials, whereas before they were severely blurry and thought it was a resolution thing

Note that artifacts do not include HUD. Reduce resolution and get it under control, then build back up.

Reaves · 05-24-07, 11:28 PM

I once had similar looking problems. Ended up needing a new power supply as I was not getting enough juice for the Graphics card with my old one.

Might not be the case for you however unless you get it in other games and even Windows desktop at times.

Capt. Shark Bait · 05-24-07, 11:35 PM

took a Battlestar Galactica mod for freespace2 to test and there was nothing like the above. ran perfectly, in fact. i set fsaa to 4x, aniso 8x, cat AI advanced adaptive AA disabled and vsycn off. doubt too it's the PSU, being a 550w and this is the only game i've had where it happened

edit: just sent this to ATi catalyst crew in case it's actually a driver prob with the above settings and can be fixed

MONOLITH · 05-27-07, 06:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Capt. Shark Bait

now i can actually read the hydraphone dials, whereas before they were severely blurry and thought it was a resolution thing

The blurry dials is caused by the mipmap setting. Setting mipmapping to a low setting cause a 'foggyhaze' ingame.

MONOLITH · 05-27-07, 07:28 AM

Wow, that was freaky.

I was posting about your power supply, and fried my own! LOL.

Holy Kharma.

Thank goodness I have a spare on hand.

Anyway...two posts in here say your 550Watt PSU is more than enough for your card, But nowhere in this thread have you posted the card your actually using right now. I only see the card you're getting.

Just wanted to say that a 550 PSU may not be enough. I bought an ATIX1950 Pro, and a brand new 550 was NOT enough to run the card, and the MOBO, and two disc drives, etc.

I currently have two power supplies connected to my rig, a 550 to run the X1950 and MOBO, and a 300 running my drives.

Just a few watts under can cause the card to whack out like you're seeing. When I see your screens, it looks like either 1. Overheating, 2. Underpowered 3. either the vid card or PSU is simply starting to go bad 4. driver issue

But plenty of others are on the 7.4 driver, including me, without those problems.

Anyway, main point is with current video cards, plus a mobo , plus a couple drives, a 550w is not always enough anymore.

Capt. Shark Bait · 05-27-07, 05:10 PM

card's in my sig, a 850XT and it's not overclocked so i doub't it was a heat issue, but as i said above, after setting those i changed back to what the were, those anomalies went away which leads me to think that certain settings in combination could very well be the cause

Capt. Shark Bait · 05-25-07, 02:38 AM

changed those settings that i think caused all that to what they were and changed a coupla others and the only anomaly was the view thru the TBT and some text distortion on the nav map. almost definitely seems to be a driver thing and maybe ATi can/will work it out

StandingCow · 05-25-07, 08:46 AM

Tried restarting your computer? It happens sometimes on HL2 games as well, I think its the renderer freaking out.. a restart fixes it for me.

If that doesn't work I would reinstall/update your graphic card drivers.

Redwine · 05-25-07, 09:55 AM

Same problem here... not only with SH IV, with SH III and IL2 saga... next time buy an nVidia instead this @##$$ ATI, this happens disregarding the drivers version i switch....

But... i note it happens to me into SH IV, only after patch V1.2.... not before, may be related to the AA and AF capabilities added by this patch ?

The solution i found was to UNDERCLOCK the ATI card core and memory...

Signed : Another unfortunated ATI user... :rotfl: (X800 XT PE)

kakemann · 05-25-07, 09:58 AM

Doesn't look good!

Capt. Shark Bait · 05-25-07, 01:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StandingCow

Tried restarting your computer? It happens sometimes on HL2 games as well, I think its the renderer freaking out.. a restart fixes it for me.

If that doesn't work I would reinstall/update your graphic card drivers.

not sure a restart would help much. reset those settings, AA AF, i changed and the anomalies were far less severe, tho that's likely cuz i changed a coupla others. 7.5 ain't out yet, so it's up to date

Fish40 · 05-25-07, 04:13 PM

I'm useing an ATI X1650pro with Cat7.3's, and no probs. whatsoever. Mabey reverting back to the 7.3's might help.

05-24-07, 10:24 PM	#1
Capt. Shark Bait Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: in a convergance zone Posts: 1,186 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	got a bit of a prob, graphical anomalies view from the bridge: navigation map: external cam: that last one is simalir to the periscope view; the solid black tapering lines eminate from a target ship. any ideas on this? never happened before and the GPU temp wasn't all that high, less than 35c. tested it again and both maps turned pink and the ctrl rm looked like the 1st pic. any ideas? thx __________________ Leiser und tödlicher edler Ritter der Tiefe Corsair Vengeance M70; ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z; FX 8350; Asus 7870; Samsung SyncMaster 2243SWX; coolmax CUG950B 950w psu; 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3; Corsair M4 SSD 128GB, WD 1TB; x18 DVR212D; 7SP1

05-24-07, 10:51 PM	#2
skullman86 Mate Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: ...Let me get back to you on that Posts: 52 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Have you made any recent changes to your computer? (program, driver, hardware....etc) __________________ Silent Hunter-Napalm.86

05-24-07, 10:57 PM	#3
Capt. Shark Bait Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: in a convergance zone Posts: 1,186 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	nope, just a coupla catalyst settings, but i can't really see it being that cuz now i can actually read the hydraphone dials, whereas before they were severely blurry and thought it was a resolution thing __________________ Leiser und tödlicher edler Ritter der Tiefe Corsair Vengeance M70; ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z; FX 8350; Asus 7870; Samsung SyncMaster 2243SWX; coolmax CUG950B 950w psu; 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3; Corsair M4 SSD 128GB, WD 1TB; x18 DVR212D; 7SP1

05-24-07, 11:28 PM	#5
Reaves The Old Man Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 1,509 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	I once had similar looking problems. Ended up needing a new power supply as I was not getting enough juice for the Graphics card with my old one. Might not be the case for you however unless you get it in other games and even Windows desktop at times. __________________

05-24-07, 11:35 PM	#6
Capt. Shark Bait Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: in a convergance zone Posts: 1,186 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	took a Battlestar Galactica mod for freespace2 to test and there was nothing like the above. ran perfectly, in fact. i set fsaa to 4x, aniso 8x, cat AI advanced adaptive AA disabled and vsycn off. doubt too it's the PSU, being a 550w and this is the only game i've had where it happened edit: just sent this to ATi catalyst crew in case it's actually a driver prob with the above settings and can be fixed __________________ Leiser und tödlicher edler Ritter der Tiefe Corsair Vengeance M70; ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z; FX 8350; Asus 7870; Samsung SyncMaster 2243SWX; coolmax CUG950B 950w psu; 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3; Corsair M4 SSD 128GB, WD 1TB; x18 DVR212D; 7SP1

05-27-07, 07:28 AM	#8
MONOLITH Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 997 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Wow, that was freaky. I was posting about your power supply, and fried my own! LOL. Holy Kharma. Thank goodness I have a spare on hand. Anyway...two posts in here say your 550Watt PSU is more than enough for your card, But nowhere in this thread have you posted the card your actually using right now. I only see the card you're getting. Just wanted to say that a 550 PSU may not be enough. I bought an ATIX1950 Pro, and a brand new 550 was NOT enough to run the card, and the MOBO, and two disc drives, etc. I currently have two power supplies connected to my rig, a 550 to run the X1950 and MOBO, and a 300 running my drives. Just a few watts under can cause the card to whack out like you're seeing. When I see your screens, it looks like either 1. Overheating, 2. Underpowered 3. either the vid card or PSU is simply starting to go bad 4. driver issue But plenty of others are on the 7.4 driver, including me, without those problems. Anyway, main point is with current video cards, plus a mobo , plus a couple drives, a 550w is not always enough anymore. __________________ Last edited by MONOLITH; 05-27-07 at 08:52 AM.

05-27-07, 05:10 PM	#9
Capt. Shark Bait Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: in a convergance zone Posts: 1,186 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	card's in my sig, a 850XT and it's not overclocked so i doub't it was a heat issue, but as i said above, after setting those i changed back to what the were, those anomalies went away which leads me to think that certain settings in combination could very well be the cause __________________ Leiser und tödlicher edler Ritter der Tiefe Corsair Vengeance M70; ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z; FX 8350; Asus 7870; Samsung SyncMaster 2243SWX; coolmax CUG950B 950w psu; 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3; Corsair M4 SSD 128GB, WD 1TB; x18 DVR212D; 7SP1

05-25-07, 02:38 AM	#10
Capt. Shark Bait Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: in a convergance zone Posts: 1,186 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	changed those settings that i think caused all that to what they were and changed a coupla others and the only anomaly was the view thru the TBT and some text distortion on the nav map. almost definitely seems to be a driver thing and maybe ATi can/will work it out __________________ Leiser und tödlicher edler Ritter der Tiefe Corsair Vengeance M70; ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z; FX 8350; Asus 7870; Samsung SyncMaster 2243SWX; coolmax CUG950B 950w psu; 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3; Corsair M4 SSD 128GB, WD 1TB; x18 DVR212D; 7SP1

05-25-07, 08:46 AM	#11
StandingCow Weps Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 355 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	Tried restarting your computer? It happens sometimes on HL2 games as well, I think its the renderer freaking out.. a restart fixes it for me. If that doesn't work I would reinstall/update your graphic card drivers. __________________

05-25-07, 09:55 AM	#12
Redwine Sea Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: San Martin de los Andes, Neuquen, , Argentina. Posts: 1,962 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Same problem here... not only with SH IV, with SH III and IL2 saga... next time buy an nVidia instead this @##$$ ATI, this happens disregarding the drivers version i switch.... But... i note it happens to me into SH IV, only after patch V1.2.... not before, may be related to the AA and AF capabilities added by this patch ? The solution i found was to UNDERCLOCK the ATI card core and memory... Signed : Another unfortunated ATI user... :rotfl: (X800 XT PE) __________________ . "SH III and SH IV Mods" "Manual TDC Tutorial" "SH2 Downloads Selection"

05-25-07, 09:58 AM	#13
kakemann Samurai Navy Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Pretty close to the big german cruiser Blücher in Norway Posts: 568 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	Doesn't look good! __________________ My SH4 releases compatible with SH4 1.5 and earlier: Kakemann and ATR-42's Silent Hunter 4 Music FIX Kakemann and Lurker_hlb3 Destroyer sensors and radar FIX Tutorial: How to add new music tracks to SH4

05-25-07, 04:13 PM	#15
Fish40 The Old Man Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Yonkers, NY U.S.A. Posts: 1,507 Downloads: 154 Uploads: 0	I'm useing an ATI X1650pro with Cat7.3's, and no probs. whatsoever. Mabey reverting back to the 7.3's might help.