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Windlight Bug or problem with my video card?

Mac Soothsayer
Greymuzzle in RL also : )
Join date: 1 Nov 2005
Posts: 49
11-23-2007 14:20
Greetings all,
I have a question. I run a nVidia 6600 video card..and Windlight runs great even set to "high". Everything..clouds ..water..look fantastic, however,everywhere that sky meets the ocean on the horizon I get a purple strobing (flashing) band.

I can get rid of this by unchecking atmosphere shaders..but then I lose all that Windlight provides. I just updated to the newest drivers..but the problem is still there. I'm going by the possible faulty logic that if my old card can't handle it..other parts..sky ..water..etc. should be not showing correctly either..and everything else looks awesome.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks, Mac
Yrrek Gran
Crackpot Inventor
Join date: 20 Oct 2006
Posts: 209
11-23-2007 15:44
More than likely, a problem with Windlight. I just installed a new video card and am having several issues myself, weird wedges on the screen, missing prims and a whole lot of other issues.

The best thing to do is go to help and select about, copy the info, include a screenshot and submit it to the jira. That is the reason we are trying the firstlook viewers. Find the bugs, report them as best we can, give as much info as possible, and let them iron it out.

kk?
Cole Riel
Registered User
Join date: 3 May 2006
Posts: 252
11-24-2007 00:26
From: Yrrek Gran
More than likely, a problem with Windlight. I just installed a new video card and am having several issues myself, weird wedges on the screen, missing prims and a whole lot of other issues.

The best thing to do is go to help and select about, copy the info, include a screenshot and submit it to the jira. That is the reason we are trying the firstlook viewers. Find the bugs, report them as best we can, give as much info as possible, and let them iron it out.

kk?

And let them iron it out? You mean let them fix this problem, right? C'mon, now. You've been here long enough to know these guys don't "iron" anything out, ever. They place band aids on problems, this is what they do. Not fix them and not fix them correctly.

Feedback don't mean anything. We learn that with the voice chat box a while back. Maybe if they had a team that actually knew what they were doing then you could count on things being ironed out. As it stands now, it's all wishful thinking. Look at the poor condition sl is currently in.