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Tartarus Spyker
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Join date: 30 Mar 2008
Posts: 9
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04-05-2008 16:07
Im having a problem my modding team encountered in Halo PC awhile back but didnt know how to fix. Alot of things in the game world get stretched out and display lines coming from a focus and stretching out to the edges of the screen. Its very annoying as you'll see in the pictures, and i dont know how to fix it! im on windows XP, the regular client, not windlight and have a Radeon x300.  this is a picture of the corner of the room im standing in. on the right should be a PICTURE of a server computer and an intel logo, and straight ahead should just be a wall paper texture. notice how its all becoming stretched and duplicated into weird shapes on my screen.  this is a picture of me, falling onto a cow, but behind me you see the same wall in the first picture.  this is a picture of the wall to the right of the intel poster. you can see some odd things that are focused on me and are stretching outwards. so yeah, if anyones got answers ill REALY appriciate it! |
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Ty Gabe
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04-05-2008 16:18
Is this on a laptop? I just came from an X600 card and didn't see similar issues but had others that were fixed by running a hack that allowed me to update my drivers directly from ATI instead of being forced to do so through the laptop manufacturer's site (Dell) where the latest driver was 3 years old.
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Tartarus Spyker
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Join date: 30 Mar 2008
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04-05-2008 16:25
no, its a sony vaio desktop. this just started when i installed the new client.
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Qie Niangao
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04-05-2008 16:39
If you haven't tried it already, from Edit / Preferences / Graphics / Hardware Options, try turning off Vertex Buffer Objects. (May also have to play with which Shaders will actually work on your machine--I'm guessing not stock ATI drivers... although, whatever drivers they are, you'd want to make sure they're up-to-date.) Good luck and let us know how it goes.
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Chosen Few
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04-05-2008 17:53
Looks like a driver issue to me. How current is your video card driver?
For that matter, is the X300 even supported? I don't know much about how ATI numbers their cards, but everything in the sysreq's with an X in front of it has a higher number than 300. Am I correct to assume that higher numbers mean newer models? If so, then I'd say yours is out of date, and unsupported. When I Google for "Radeon X300 review" the articles I find are all 3 or 4 years old, which supports this theory.
Maybe it's time to upgrade?
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Brenda Connolly
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04-05-2008 18:00
The X300 fell off the radar a few updates back. I have one, but I've never encountered what the OP has, and I'm even using the original drivers.
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Tartarus Spyker
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Join date: 30 Mar 2008
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04-05-2008 18:00
seems good so far- turned off that one thing, yeah lol ill tell you guys if it fixes it, since sometimes these things dont show up.
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Dana Hickman
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Join date: 10 Oct 2006
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04-05-2008 19:17
I've seen this before...
Graphical artifacts and tearing are caused by heat... Too much of it to be exact.
1. clean the dust out of the video card fan and heatsinc.
2. clean any case fans and ensure there's decent airflow through the case.
3. lessen the workload on the video card by reducing some details.
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