Joe2 Holiday
Registered User
Join date: 18 Jun 2005
Posts: 46
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01-06-2009 21:54
For the last few months, im not sure when it started.. My lap top has refused to run sl properly. It starts out normal, but then as i play and my character moves these random triangals obstruct the screen, always different colors, all over. It couldnt be my drivers i think, since it used to work fine. A picture is the best way to show it. they are all different shapes,sizes and colors, this is but one example: http://www.freewebs.com/slimestudios/uhoh.bmpplease give any advice, and thank you.
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Chosen Few
Alpha Channel Slave
Join date: 16 Jan 2004
Posts: 7,496
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01-07-2009 06:32
Let me guess, ATI video card, right? Turn off vertex buffer objects (VBO) in your hardware preferences. (Edit -> Preferences -> Graphics -> Hardware Options) It's a very common problem with ATI hardware.
By the way, just so you know, it's never a good idea to put a BMP image on a Web page. Uncompressed images take forever to stream over the Internet. Next time, convert to JPEG or PNG before uploading to the Web.
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Argent Stonecutter
Emergency Mustelid
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
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01-07-2009 06:35
It could also be a video card starting to fail. My previous gf7600 started doing this about a month before it stopped displaying any color other than <0,0,0>.
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Joe2 Holiday
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Join date: 18 Jun 2005
Posts: 46
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01-07-2009 15:49
From: Chosen Few Let me guess, ATI video card, right? Turn off vertex buffer objects (VBO) in your hardware preferences. (Edit -> Preferences -> Graphics -> Hardware Options) It's a very common problem with ATI hardware.
By the way, just so you know, it's never a good idea to put a BMP image on a Web page. Uncompressed images take forever to stream over the Internet. Next time, convert to JPEG or PNG before uploading to the Web. thanks so much for the help. Im guessing its not starting to fail because my other games never have any problems, and i do have ati, so i will try what u said chosen. Also thx for the advice about the img, i always forget which is best.. hard to keep that stuff straight. ty again
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