v1.52 psychedellic graphics in later game

[drjones]

Hi, Running a Radeon 9600 with 128 and a 3.2 ghz P4 with 2 gigs or ram. I had problems before patch with slowness, crashes etc that harkonnens patch kinda fixed. Was running on high quality graphics with 2x aa.

After this patch in late game on a large map I get graphic anomalies that last only a frame or two while I am moving the camera. It also kicks in whern windows are dispalyed or if you jump to a new location. For soem reason certain parts of the map I played did it more than others but I could find no common thread. They did not interfere with playing but it felt like I was having a seizure. Hard to catch a screenie of them because they only last 1 frame but I got these:

Did someone lace this patch with acid?

-drjones

 

[drjones]

Just a note, now running the GOTM and I get teh same thing only after scientific method or so. It is about the same time in the game when it slowed down before the patch.

 

[Tigerclaw]

I have very similar problems. They usually kick in at around mid-game in epic/marathon, and can be gotten rid of by reloading. Unfortunately they get progressively worse and more frequent as the game goes on. The worst thing is when it crashes entirely (usually caused by moving the mainscreen too fast, or clicking on the minimap), as it requires a restart and seems to do something to my graphics settings, changing it to a 16 bit pallet that even my 1995 286 would laugh at. I've got an Pentium 4 Advent 3000, 3.20 GHz, with 1GB of RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce FX5200.


Still, runs without any problems until then. Let's hope a later patch is able to sort this out...

 

[drjones]

And another update, in a late modern age on the GOTM map it was so spastic I was getting 2-3 seconds of frozen colored lights every time the camera moved. Seemed like it was freezing before a crash but never went down. Controls were unresponsive during these times and it was pretty damn annoying.

-drjones

 

[drjones]

I have gotten this effect early if I use the 'regenerate map' command repeatedly.

-drjones