Texture / Lighting Problems

PipoDeluxe · Post by **PipoDeluxe** » 2006-11-17 10:33

Sometimes when I load a map, all ground textures are black, grass looks like glow-in-the-dark seaweed, and the trees look like they come straight from the Teletubbies. (I tried to make screenies, but somehow they were all completely black...)

I guess this is a problem with the textures (black textures / no textures at all?), and/or with the lighting (no lighting on ground / too much lighting on grass?). I don't know. I've never seen this before in vBF2 or PR 0.3x. So far I've had this problem with AlBasrah and Qwai River.

Does anyone else have these problems?
Does anyone know how to fix it?

My video settings:
- Lighting: Medium
- Dynamic Shadows: Medium
- The rest: High
- 1280x1024
- 4xAA
on an ATI RADEON X850XT PCI-E with Catalyst 6.10 drivers.

Pantera · Post by **Pantera** » 2006-11-17 11:37

theres your problem :

Catalyst 6.10

you need to upgrade your graphic card to Catalyst 9 or higher i think. (i used to have the same problem with vBF2, i had a Radeon, i upgraded it and it was all fixed)

PipoDeluxe · Post by **PipoDeluxe** » 2006-11-17 15:45

Thanks for the quick reply Darth! (really nice sig BTW! lol)
There's no Catalyst 9.

According to the ATI website 6.11 is the newest version (released 2 days ago).
I'll download/install 6.11 and see if it helps... (but there's probably not much of a difference between 6.10 and 6.11, at least not for my old X850XT)

Pantera · Post by **Pantera** » 2006-11-18 00:00

PipoDeluxe wrote:Thanks for the quick reply Darth! (really nice sig BTW! lol)
There's no Catalyst 9.

According to the ATI website 6.11 is the newest version (released 2 days ago).
I'll download/install 6.11 and see if it helps... (but there's probably not much of a difference between 6.10 and 6.11, at least not for my old X850XT)

i stoped using ATI about a year ago, seems they changed everything, there used to be a catalyst 9.

I switched to a Nvidia GeForce 6800GT and all the graphic related problems stopped. And i havent had a single graphic problem every since (and i hope i still dont).

.Du$ty · Post by **.Du$ty** » 2006-11-20 00:44

im running 6.11 and since i installed these drivers Ive had this same problem happen twice to me with the black screenshots and all.......Im also using a unlocked x800gto almost the same card as Pipodeluxe

PipoDeluxe · Post by **PipoDeluxe** » 2006-11-20 11:32

@Du$ty: it might very well be ATI driver related. I'm not sure, but I think I've had these problems since I installed 6.10 (and 6.11). I think I'll go back to my trusty old 6.6 drivers and see if it helps...

.Du$ty · Post by **.Du$ty** » 2006-11-20 19:29

sounds like a plan, I was runnin 6.6 till i cleaned it when the new pr came out and got the newest 6.11
gotta say though, could be the placebo effect but the game looks and runs better on the newest cats than the 6.6-.6.7 range drivers on my system at least.

{GD}Shmoo · Post by **{GD}Shmoo** » 2006-11-20 20:16

I had no problems until I updated to 6.11 and now I have the same problem so my plan is to roll back to the old version....

PipoDeluxe · Post by **PipoDeluxe** » 2006-11-21 09:56

Thanks for the replies everyone! Looks like we're building a case here: Catalyst 6.11 + PR 0.4 = problems.

By the way: as far as I know Catalyst 6.11 works fine with vBF2. So it seems it's the combination of PR 0.4 and these new drivers that's causing problems for some people... Or are people having similar problems with 6.11 and vBF2?

GLQ · Post by **GLQ** » 2006-11-21 10:16

x700 - ATI Catlyst 6.10 - same problems ...

{GD}Shmoo · Post by **{GD}Shmoo** » 2006-11-22 16:47

Update - I uninstalled everything ATI related and just installed the ATI 6.11 driver and nothing else (I use PowerStrip anyways so do not need the Catalyst software). Played last night with no problems but did not get to any of the maps where I had real problems. I will update once I play more and let everyone know if I had to go back to the 6.9 driver.

FYI - I have the ATI All-In-Wonder X800XL 256MB PCIE x16 card

GLQ · Post by **GLQ** » 2006-11-23 11:15

On Muttrah (and other maps) the shadows are so dark, but the soldiers on it are lighted - only by is this problem ?!?

Infidel · Post by **Infidel** » 2006-11-29 11:36

I had similar problems with 0.3 particularly on night maps, turning made dark areas light up and light areas go dark and the sort of psychedelic sand bags with 2 Nvidia gfx cards 6800gs and 7600gt.

Haven't noticed it in v0.4 but then again I haven't played a night map yet in v0.4.

Post by **RikiRude** » 2006-12-01 07:22

PipoDeluxe wrote:Sometimes when I load a map, all ground textures are black, grass looks like glow-in-the-dark seaweed, and the trees look like they come straight from the Teletubbies. (I tried to make screenies, but somehow they were all completely black...)

I guess this is a problem with the textures (black textures / no textures at all?), and/or with the lighting (no lighting on ground / too much lighting on grass?). I don't know. I've never seen this before in vBF2 or PR 0.3x. So far I've had this problem with AlBasrah and Qwai River.

Does anyone else have these problems?
Does anyone know how to fix it?

My video settings:
- Lighting: Medium
- Dynamic Shadows: Medium
- The rest: High
- 1280x1024
- 4xAA
on an ATI RADEON X850XT PCI-E with Catalyst 6.10 drivers.

I got the same card and the same problems!

I'm going to get that older driver and try it out.

6.14.10.6542

This is the current driver i have.

PS can anyone explain why ati doesnt have their own files on their website? im sorry that's just retarded!!!!!