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Kitty Barnett

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Join date: 10 May 2006

Posts: 5,586

04-25-2007 15:37

I'm the only one of the people I know who were on who's getting the problem, but just in case I'm not the only one:

From: someone

Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE2
OpenGL Version: 2.0.3
93.71 nVidia drivers

Steps to reproduce the bug:

1) make a plywood prim
2) select a texture face
3) colour it

Observed results:

The texture doesn't recolour.

Fix (in Windows):

Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced

Under the GeForce (something) tab

Performance & Quality Settings

The bug occurs when Image Settings is set to High Performance, or Performance, but doesn't occur when it's set to Quality.

Loss of FPS, but at least the world doesn't look all bland and colourless

.

AnnMarie Otoole

Addicted scripter

Join date: 6 Jan 2007

Posts: 162

04-25-2007 19:04

I couldn't find the quality setting under my GEForce - Tab.
Everything was working OK yesterday.
Is it due to a change in 1.15?
I've got aircraft crashing into the red warning light on my lighthouse that is now white!!!

Cross Lament

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Join date: 20 Mar 2004

Posts: 1,115

04-25-2007 19:13

Oddly enough, I did the opposite to fix it, and set Image Quality to 'High Performance'.

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Boogeyman Spear

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Join date: 1 Sep 2006

Posts: 1

04-25-2007 19:15

I am having the same issue with an Nvidia FX 5500 nothing will color. I deleted my cache and reinstalled. Still no colr pls help lol.

AnnMarie Otoole

Addicted scripter

Join date: 6 Jan 2007

Posts: 162

04-25-2007 19:27

Ok, I have dual screens on my computer.
One is FX5500 and the other is FX5200.
I've got no color overlay on Textures on the FX5500.
FX5500 was working fine yesterday - the only change is downloading SL V1.15.

But the FX5200 is working fine. I can slide the window from one to the other and one has color the other doesn't.

AND BOTH BOARDS HAVE IDENTICAL SETTINGS.

I've messed with all the FX5500 settings and nothing fixes it.

Bannock Ogg

Registered User

Join date: 24 May 2006

Posts: 28

Tried it and

04-25-2007 19:51

Nothing! This is a SL issue. All other Applications run Fine. Since the new Update I am having issues. LL Meesed something Up and it needs to be fixed. If more then One person is having issues then it has to be corrected by them. We all can't adjust our PC's when they can undo what they did. Now if anyone can come in game and help with this Just IM me. Or LL fix it! and Fix it fast!

Alyssa Bijoux

Jeweler

Join date: 7 Dec 2004

Posts: 394

Same here

04-25-2007 20:02

Same thing with me - graphics card I am using is Nvidia FX 5200. Color doesnt work. I tried everything, even updating my drivers and re-installing sl again. It looks like its an update issue. Lets hope they fix it soon.

AnnMarie Otoole

Addicted scripter

Join date: 6 Jan 2007

Posts: 162

04-25-2007 22:45

I found a WORK AROUND for objects with your own textures - I have about 40 to re-work. It won't work for other owners' textures. On my computer the color overlays fail only on textures that have no transparent areas. All you need is a tiny transparent area somewhere on the texture and the color overlay will work.

I think I read that SL1.15 had "improvements" in rendering surfaces textured with transparent areas - a much needed update. It sounds like this problem is perhaps related to this "update".

Winter Phoenix

Voyager of Experiences

Join date: 15 Nov 2004

Posts: 683

Borked

04-26-2007 00:21

same thing, missing colors. Got a white horse now instead of black.

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Kumi Itoku

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Join date: 9 Jan 2006

Posts: 10

No colour on prims

04-26-2007 02:40

Same here, since yesterdays update I cant see any colour on prims. For example, I rez a cube, colour it red, to me it still looks uncoloured, everyone else can see it as red.

Textures are fine, except I cant tint them, shine is fine, local light is fine, it's just the colours aren't there. Everything looks awful, plywood and white surfaces everywhere.

I've tried fiddling with SL preferences, tried changing the performance/quality, cleared cache, rebooted etc., but looking at previous posts I suspect it's a compatibility problem with my NVIDEA GeForce FX5200 (256mb). Driver date 17/11/2006 version 6.14.10.9381, running under Windows XP, I also tried the .9371 drivers too.

*EDIT*

Correction...Ctrl-Alt-6 worked for me. (Client Menu/features/fog)

Not perfect, I now occasionally get rectangular blocks of colour at the edges of the screen, but better than blank textures.

Milo Linden

Quality Assurance

Join date: 22 Mar 2006

Posts: 140

04-26-2007 05:58

Hi,

Can someone try turning off opengl vertex buffer objects in the preferences > adv. graphics menu and see if that helps.

Thanks
Milo.

Kitty Barnett

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Join date: 10 May 2006

Posts: 5,586

04-26-2007 06:00

It seems like there's three different ways to change the quality settings

.

1) http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2672/menuzq3.jpg

If you have the nVidia settings thingy in the lower right corner: right-click on it, Performance & Quality Settings > Image Settings

2) http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/7111/cpqk7.jpg

Control Panel > Display (or right-click on the Desktop and pick Properties)

Settings tab > Click Advanced

GeForceFX 5200 tab (which can look like the above)

Under Performance & Quality Settings > Image Settings

3) http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/8457/proggiekj7.jpg

If you have the configuration proggie instead under the tab:

Click Manage 3D settings, it's called "Texture Filtering" there.

-----

Mine was set to High Performance which resulted in the bug, changing it to Quality fixed it up for me and someone else, although Cross commented he changed it to High Performance to fix it.

The way I tested it was to simply rez a plywood prim, colour it (which didn't show), then log off, change the setting, relog and see if anything changed, and rinse and repeat until it was fixed

.

Hopefully the extra steps above will help those in the thread who couldn't get it to work

. And everyone do file a bug report (and reference the thread I guess because it is video card specific so for the QA bug testing team, it won't reproduce and they'd just bin it).

Kitty Barnett

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Join date: 10 May 2006

Posts: 5,586

04-26-2007 06:02

From: Milo Linden

Can someone try turning off opengl vertex buffer objects in the preferences > adv. graphics menu and see if that helps.

That's the first thing I tried and it did no good

.

None of the SL preference settings made any difference. What I did in the post above made everything all normal again though.

AWM Mars

Scarey Dude :¬)

Join date: 10 Apr 2004

Posts: 3,398

04-26-2007 07:55

Having 'performance' setting rather than quality, basically flattens the textures, what you gain in performance you loose in quality, unless your GC can give you excellent performance with quality selected. A FX5*** isn't cutting edge for a GC. I have no problems with my 7950GTX.

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Kitty Barnett

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04-26-2007 23:28

From another thread (/327/46/179973/1.html#post1485365):

From: Ragar Desoto

Recently with the new release of Second Life there has been issues with the FX series graphics cards. No colors showing up. Only textures. From what I have found it has to do with the alpha bug that was fixed. I tested this out with creating a ball setting the texture to blank then adding a color to it, there was no color showing up of course when I set its transparency up a slight amount, about 2, the color appeared. I have an FX 5500 card that I am using at the moment and it took me about a day to figure out how to fix this error. What I did was download a program called Rivatuner, its a graphics tweak program.
What you do to fix this bug with SL is:
First Download Rivatuner.
Second when installed click on the little icon that looks like half a square next to a box that says 'Forceware Detected'
Third click on the little button that shows a sweep.
Fourth it will ask if you want to restart your computer once this is done, click on no.
Fifth start up SL and see if anything has changed.
This has been tested and has worked on two FX cards already. An FX 5200 and my FX 5500.
I hope this information is of use to people that are having this problem, and remember don't mess around with RivaTuner to much if you don't know what you are doing

Ragar Desoto

The Insane Multitasker

Join date: 29 Apr 2006

Posts: 18

04-27-2007 11:16

I have found a fix for this problem please follow the instructions on my post here: /327/46/179973/1.html
They should fix the color problem on FX graphics cards
Edit: Woops, sorry just posted this right as someone else posted. ^^

JeannieMarie Helvetic

Registered User

Join date: 22 Mar 2007

Posts: 1

Thank you

04-29-2007 11:40

I just want to say thank you, Kitty! You helped me so much! This fixed all my issues and now I can get back to work on my textures and buildings without concern. Your the Best!

From: Kitty Barnett

It seems like there's three different ways to change the quality settings

.

1) http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2672/menuzq3.jpg

If you have the nVidia settings thingy in the lower right corner: right-click on it, Performance & Quality Settings > Image Settings

2) http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/7111/cpqk7.jpg

Control Panel > Display (or right-click on the Desktop and pick Properties)

Settings tab > Click Advanced

GeForceFX 5200 tab (which can look like the above)

Under Performance & Quality Settings > Image Settings

3) http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/8457/proggiekj7.jpg

If you have the configuration proggie instead under the tab:

Click Manage 3D settings, it's called "Texture Filtering" there.

-----

Mine was set to High Performance which resulted in the bug, changing it to Quality fixed it up for me and someone else, although Cross commented he changed it to High Performance to fix it.

The way I tested it was to simply rez a plywood prim, colour it (which didn't show), then log off, change the setting, relog and see if anything changed, and rinse and repeat until it was fixed

.

Hopefully the extra steps above will help those in the thread who couldn't get it to work

. And everyone do file a bug report (and reference the thread I guess because it is video card specific so for the QA bug testing team, it won't reproduce and they'd just bin it).

Colour overlay for textures not working
Kitty Barnett Registered User Join date: 10 May 2006 Posts: 5,586	04-25-2007 15:37 I'm the only one of the people I know who were on who's getting the problem, but just in case I'm not the only one: From: someone Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Graphics Card: GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE2 OpenGL Version: 2.0.3 93.71 nVidia drivers Steps to reproduce the bug: 1) make a plywood prim 2) select a texture face 3) colour it Observed results: The texture doesn't recolour. Fix (in Windows): Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced Under the GeForce (something) tab Performance & Quality Settings The bug occurs when Image Settings is set to High Performance, or Performance, but doesn't occur when it's set to Quality. Loss of FPS, but at least the world doesn't look all bland and colourless .
AnnMarie Otoole Addicted scripter Join date: 6 Jan 2007 Posts: 162	04-25-2007 19:04 I couldn't find the quality setting under my GEForce - Tab. Everything was working OK yesterday. Is it due to a change in 1.15? I've got aircraft crashing into the red warning light on my lighthouse that is now white!!!
Cross Lament Loose-brained Vixen Join date: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 1,115	04-25-2007 19:13 Oddly enough, I did the opposite to fix it, and set Image Quality to 'High Performance'. _____________________ - Making everyone's day just a little more surreal - Teeple Linden: "OK, where did the tentacled thing go while I was playing with my face?"
Boogeyman Spear Registered User Join date: 1 Sep 2006 Posts: 1	04-25-2007 19:15 I am having the same issue with an Nvidia FX 5500 nothing will color. I deleted my cache and reinstalled. Still no colr pls help lol.
AnnMarie Otoole Addicted scripter Join date: 6 Jan 2007 Posts: 162	04-25-2007 19:27 Ok, I have dual screens on my computer. One is FX5500 and the other is FX5200. I've got no color overlay on Textures on the FX5500. FX5500 was working fine yesterday - the only change is downloading SL V1.15. But the FX5200 is working fine. I can slide the window from one to the other and one has color the other doesn't. AND BOTH BOARDS HAVE IDENTICAL SETTINGS. I've messed with all the FX5500 settings and nothing fixes it.
Bannock Ogg Registered User Join date: 24 May 2006 Posts: 28	Tried it and 04-25-2007 19:51 Nothing! This is a SL issue. All other Applications run Fine. Since the new Update I am having issues. LL Meesed something Up and it needs to be fixed. If more then One person is having issues then it has to be corrected by them. We all can't adjust our PC's when they can undo what they did. Now if anyone can come in game and help with this Just IM me. Or LL fix it! and Fix it fast!
Alyssa Bijoux Jeweler Join date: 7 Dec 2004 Posts: 394	Same here 04-25-2007 20:02 Same thing with me - graphics card I am using is Nvidia FX 5200. Color doesnt work. I tried everything, even updating my drivers and re-installing sl again. It looks like its an update issue. Lets hope they fix it soon.
AnnMarie Otoole Addicted scripter Join date: 6 Jan 2007 Posts: 162	04-25-2007 22:45 I found a WORK AROUND for objects with your own textures - I have about 40 to re-work. It won't work for other owners' textures. On my computer the color overlays fail only on textures that have no transparent areas. All you need is a tiny transparent area somewhere on the texture and the color overlay will work. I think I read that SL1.15 had "improvements" in rendering surfaces textured with transparent areas - a much needed update. It sounds like this problem is perhaps related to this "update".
Winter Phoenix Voyager of Experiences Join date: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 683	Borked 04-26-2007 00:21 same thing, missing colors. Got a white horse now instead of black. _____________________ ~GIVEN FREE REIGN THE SYSTEM WILL TELL YOU, WHAT TO DO, WHEN AND HOW TO DO IT, WHAT YOU CAN READ, VIEW, OR LISTEN TO, WHAT YOU CAN SAY, WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR OWN BODY, AND SUCK ALL YOUR MONEY OUT OF YOUR POCKET WHILE IT DOES THIS! QUESTION AUTHORITY!~ W.P
Kumi Itoku Registered User Join date: 9 Jan 2006 Posts: 10	No colour on prims 04-26-2007 02:40 Same here, since yesterdays update I cant see any colour on prims. For example, I rez a cube, colour it red, to me it still looks uncoloured, everyone else can see it as red. Textures are fine, except I cant tint them, shine is fine, local light is fine, it's just the colours aren't there. Everything looks awful, plywood and white surfaces everywhere. I've tried fiddling with SL preferences, tried changing the performance/quality, cleared cache, rebooted etc., but looking at previous posts I suspect it's a compatibility problem with my NVIDEA GeForce FX5200 (256mb). Driver date 17/11/2006 version 6.14.10.9381, running under Windows XP, I also tried the .9371 drivers too. EDIT Correction...Ctrl-Alt-6 worked for me. (Client Menu/features/fog) Not perfect, I now occasionally get rectangular blocks of colour at the edges of the screen, but better than blank textures.
Milo Linden Quality Assurance Join date: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 140	04-26-2007 05:58 Hi, Can someone try turning off opengl vertex buffer objects in the preferences > adv. graphics menu and see if that helps. Thanks Milo.
Kitty Barnett Registered User Join date: 10 May 2006 Posts: 5,586	04-26-2007 06:00 It seems like there's three different ways to change the quality settings . 1) http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2672/menuzq3.jpg If you have the nVidia settings thingy in the lower right corner: right-click on it, Performance & Quality Settings > Image Settings 2) http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/7111/cpqk7.jpg Control Panel > Display (or right-click on the Desktop and pick Properties) Settings tab > Click Advanced GeForceFX 5200 tab (which can look like the above) Under Performance & Quality Settings > Image Settings 3) http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/8457/proggiekj7.jpg If you have the configuration proggie instead under the tab: Click Manage 3D settings, it's called "Texture Filtering" there. ----- Mine was set to High Performance which resulted in the bug, changing it to Quality fixed it up for me and someone else, although Cross commented he changed it to High Performance to fix it. The way I tested it was to simply rez a plywood prim, colour it (which didn't show), then log off, change the setting, relog and see if anything changed, and rinse and repeat until it was fixed . Hopefully the extra steps above will help those in the thread who couldn't get it to work . And everyone do file a bug report (and reference the thread I guess because it is video card specific so for the QA bug testing team, it won't reproduce and they'd just bin it).
Kitty Barnett Registered User Join date: 10 May 2006 Posts: 5,586	04-26-2007 06:02 From: Milo Linden Can someone try turning off opengl vertex buffer objects in the preferences > adv. graphics menu and see if that helps. That's the first thing I tried and it did no good . None of the SL preference settings made any difference. What I did in the post above made everything all normal again though.
AWM Mars Scarey Dude :¬) Join date: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 3,398	04-26-2007 07:55 Having 'performance' setting rather than quality, basically flattens the textures, what you gain in performance you loose in quality, unless your GC can give you excellent performance with quality selected. A FX5* isn't cutting edge for a GC. I have no problems with my 7950GTX. _____________________ * Politeness is priceless when received, cost nothing to own or give, yet many cannot afford - Why do you only see typo's AFTER you have clicked submit? ** http://www.wba-advertising.com http://www.nex-core-mm.com http://www.eml-entertainments.com http://www.v-innovate.com
Kitty Barnett Registered User Join date: 10 May 2006 Posts: 5,586	04-26-2007 23:28 From another thread (/327/46/179973/1.html#post1485365): From: Ragar Desoto Recently with the new release of Second Life there has been issues with the FX series graphics cards. No colors showing up. Only textures. From what I have found it has to do with the alpha bug that was fixed. I tested this out with creating a ball setting the texture to blank then adding a color to it, there was no color showing up of course when I set its transparency up a slight amount, about 2, the color appeared. I have an FX 5500 card that I am using at the moment and it took me about a day to figure out how to fix this error. What I did was download a program called Rivatuner, its a graphics tweak program. What you do to fix this bug with SL is: First Download Rivatuner. Second when installed click on the little icon that looks like half a square next to a box that says 'Forceware Detected' Third click on the little button that shows a sweep. Fourth it will ask if you want to restart your computer once this is done, click on no. Fifth start up SL and see if anything has changed. This has been tested and has worked on two FX cards already. An FX 5200 and my FX 5500. I hope this information is of use to people that are having this problem, and remember don't mess around with RivaTuner to much if you don't know what you are doing
Ragar Desoto The Insane Multitasker Join date: 29 Apr 2006 Posts: 18	04-27-2007 11:16 I have found a fix for this problem please follow the instructions on my post here: /327/46/179973/1.html They should fix the color problem on FX graphics cards Edit: Woops, sorry just posted this right as someone else posted. ^^
JeannieMarie Helvetic Registered User Join date: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 1	Thank you 04-29-2007 11:40 I just want to say thank you, Kitty! You helped me so much! This fixed all my issues and now I can get back to work on my textures and buildings without concern. Your the Best! From: Kitty Barnett It seems like there's three different ways to change the quality settings . 1) http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2672/menuzq3.jpg If you have the nVidia settings thingy in the lower right corner: right-click on it, Performance & Quality Settings > Image Settings 2) http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/7111/cpqk7.jpg Control Panel > Display (or right-click on the Desktop and pick Properties) Settings tab > Click Advanced GeForceFX 5200 tab (which can look like the above) Under Performance & Quality Settings > Image Settings 3) http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/8457/proggiekj7.jpg If you have the configuration proggie instead under the tab: Click Manage 3D settings, it's called "Texture Filtering" there. ----- Mine was set to High Performance which resulted in the bug, changing it to Quality fixed it up for me and someone else, although Cross commented he changed it to High Performance to fix it. The way I tested it was to simply rez a plywood prim, colour it (which didn't show), then log off, change the setting, relog and see if anything changed, and rinse and repeat until it was fixed . Hopefully the extra steps above will help those in the thread who couldn't get it to work . And everyone do file a bug report (and reference the thread I guess because it is video card specific so for the QA bug testing team, it won't reproduce and they'd just bin it).

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