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Solom Lament
Junior Member
Join date: 2 Jun 2004
Posts: 3
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07-05-2004 15:10
This here rendering problem have been bothering me for some weeks now. The Second Life support have only seen it on the Macintosh, but I'm running Windows XP (previously Windows 2000, with the same bug).
My graphics card is a GeForce FX 5900XT, and I'm using the latest Detonator drivers from nVidia. I have a Pentium 4 2.53Ghz processor on a Intel 845PE chipset motherboard from GIGABYTE.
In short, my avatar is completely invisible for me, all other avatars are rendered really freaky, with a head and a long, long neck ending in one single eye with two thin, sticky arms pointing right out. Have a look at the attachment.
I have tried turning all performance and graphics options on and off, maximum and minimum (yes, including the avatar vertex program) and there is absolutely no visual difference at all.
If anybody has seen something similar and found solutions as how to fix it, I would be forever grateful.
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Solom Lament
Junior Member
Join date: 2 Jun 2004
Posts: 3
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07-05-2004 15:11
Great, seems the attachment got removed when I previewed the message...
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Selador Cellardoor
Registered User
Join date: 16 Nov 2003
Posts: 3,082
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07-05-2004 16:02
Solom,
The only time I've seen anything like this was when I was trying to use a powerful graphics card in sl with an inadequate power unit.
If all else fails, perhaps you could try to buy a high-quality power unit and see if that works.
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Camille Serpentine
Eater of the Dead
Join date: 6 Oct 2003
Posts: 1,236
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07-05-2004 16:26
wow! that's freaky! It'd be cool if we could create AVs like that.  hope you get it fixed! |
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Cyrena Zamboni
SL Ingenue
Join date: 1 Jun 2004
Posts: 16
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07-05-2004 18:04
That is a fabulously freaky AV! I want one - LOL!
(sorry for your troubles though)
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Catherine Omega
Geometry Ninja
Join date: 10 Jan 2003
Posts: 2,053
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07-05-2004 18:24
Yeah, I'm going to have to go with power as well. I checked all the 845PE chipset motherboard Gigabyte makes and none of them seem to have a problem. That video card uses a lot of wattage, and it's not difficult to imagine the reason it's failing is because of power.
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Solom Lament
Junior Member
Join date: 2 Jun 2004
Posts: 3
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07-05-2004 18:31
From: someone Originally posted by Selador Cellardoor
The only time I've seen anything like this was when I was trying to use a powerful graphics card in sl with an inadequate power unit.
If all else fails, perhaps you could try to buy a high-quality power unit and see if that works. Thanks, but this here is an Antec box with a Performance 430W PSU, and I've got all the power cords connected right. Also, this is the first and only game/application I've hade graphical errors in. |
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Lordfly Digeridoo
Prim Orchestrator
Join date: 21 Jul 2003
Posts: 3,628
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07-06-2004 00:32
From: someone Originally posted by Solom Lament
Thanks, but this here is an Antec box with a Performance 430W PSU, and I've got all the power cords connected right.
Also, this is the first and only game/application I've hade graphical errors in. Yeah, Second Life does that I was quite adamant about second life being at fault for my graphical woes, because it was the only program that made my Radeon 9000 go wonky. Turns out that Second Life uses 100% of your pc at 100% of the time. That's going to suck a lot of juice. I'm not sure on how much power a 5900XT takes up, but knowing Geforces, I'd wager a lot. Maybe a 500 watter would do? Either that, or perhaps your card is overheating. LF
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