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Terrain textures

Ewan Took
Mad Hairy Scotsman
Join date: 5 Dec 2004
Posts: 579
06-08-2006 15:24
The terrain textures will not load properly on my system. They are sharp in patches but mostly they are blurred and pixelated. I've just updated my PC to one which is a much higher specd video card and while everything is running smooth and objects look sharper and clearer. the terrain is worse.

I've uninstalled then reinstalled my client but still the same blur. Any ideas?

specs...

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 1536MB RAM
Page File: 303MB used, 3131MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 7800 GS
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC

Display Memory: 512.0 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.8421 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 3/9/2006 08:29:00, 3968512 bytes
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Ewan Took
Mad Hairy Scotsman
Join date: 5 Dec 2004
Posts: 579
06-08-2006 16:00
BTW I don't understand this but dxdiag reports the nvidia driver above but when I go to display properties the driver shows as v84.21
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Mud Huszar
Registered User
Join date: 6 Sep 2005
Posts: 5
06-08-2006 19:55
I've been experiencing the same issue. My video card is an nvidia 7800GT and i've installed the most recent drivers and my land textures look blurred and smeared.

Using MS WinXP-Pro
1 gig ram
Amd64 duel core processor
nvidia 7800GT vid card
Katier Reitveld
M2 News Manager
Join date: 13 Sep 2005
Posts: 412
06-09-2006 01:38
This is a known issue, the fix was brought up by Dan Linden :-

From: someone
This is a known issue for on some GeForce 6xxx and 7xxx cards when Avatar Rendering is set to Bump Mapped & Cloth. If you change Avatar Rendering back to Bump Mapped or Normal the terrain textures will look correct.


The driver version in Nvidia cards is allways different to the forceware version. Basically a driver is built up of several files combined into a package. That package is known as 'Forceware' in Nvidia cards and 84.21 sounds nice and current.

The Driver version that DxDiag reports is the version just of the primary display driver file without all the bits that go with it ( for instance the files going into the configuration stuff in Display properties etc. ).
Ewan Took
Mad Hairy Scotsman
Join date: 5 Dec 2004
Posts: 579
06-09-2006 05:03
Thanks Katier!
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