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ATI vid card/ graphics problems

BayBlast

By BayBlast,
Posted on: 2009-05-13 23:02 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

Posted

i recently had to reinstall vista and coh on my comp and ever since then ive had weird glitchy graphics problems and my video driver has been giving an unexpected error and restarting but only when i play coh.

ive been through the ATI card settings recommendations thread and my catalyst and drivers are all up to date.

the ingame graphics look great as always but i get this little glitchieness where it looks like bits of the character are being stretched from the them and when im lookin for AE missions i can see my character through its screen.

im not sure what else to do to get this fixed, and i really dont seem to be able to play the game.



@LKN-351
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Posted

Check the vista sticky at the top. You might need the hotfix unless you already have vista sp2.

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---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.1.1.7---

DxDiag gathered at May 14, 2009 12:44 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Ultimate (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.090302-1506)
System Manufacturer: Compaq Presario 061
System Model: ER920AA-ABA SR1838NX NA660
BIOS: Phoenix - Award BIOS v6.00PG
Central Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+, ~2.2GHz
Memory: 2046MB
.Net Memory Report: 1365MB out of 2045MB available
Page File: 3520MB (829MB currently in use)
C Drive: (Maxtor 6Y120P0 ATA Device) 70944MB out of 117243MB (60%) free
D Drive: (WDC WD3200AAJB-00WGA0 ATA Device) 63708MB out of 305242MB (20%) free
E Drive: (HP DVD Writer 1040d ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 10
DirectX Diag version: 6.00.6001.18000 (32-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: Radeon X1650 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x71C6)
Video Memory: 1278 MB
Driver Version: 8.14.0010.0647
Driver Date: 2/25/2009 4:18:08 PM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (2- Creative SB Live! Series (WDM))
Driver File: P16X.sys
Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0124
Driver Date: 8/30/2002 11:29:02 AM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: MSI
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: AMETHYST-M
Motherboard Version: 1.0
BIOS Manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Name: Phoenix - Award BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Version: _ASUS_ - 42302e31
BIOS Release: 20060324000000.000000+000

Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1680x987
3D Resolution: 1680x987 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: No
Maximized: Yes
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes

Physics Quality: High
Maximum Particles: 40135
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No

Anti-aliasing: None
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: High Quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High

World Texture Level: High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of Extra Player FX Enabled: No
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.657
Music Sound Volume: 0.512

Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 1.000
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 104577 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 18.20090422.5T
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found



@LKN-351
Pinnacle

 

Posted

installed the hotfix but i havent tried to play the game yet.



@LKN-351
Pinnacle

 

Posted

[ QUOTE ]
Turn off Water Effects, Bloom, and Depth of Field. ATI don't play that game (with those effect enabled).

[/ QUOTE ]

And Desaturation FX. Same problem as the rest.

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Posted

those didnt cause any problems before i reinstalled and they where recommended settings from the ATI thread.



@LKN-351
Pinnacle

 

Posted

so i changed the settings and i have installed the hotfix mentioned in the vista thread and the driver still does the same thing.

this and this are what i see happening and it gets slightly worse untill the driver halts.



@LKN-351
Pinnacle

 

Posted

anybody know anything i can do? i payed to play and id really like to be doing so.



@LKN-351
Pinnacle

 

Posted

Sorry can't give any specific help but maybe in graphics options in game turn off or set to lowest setting everything you can. If you see no change then go into the ATI control panel and lower all settings.

If by chance your game should run fine then one by one turn back up the in game graphic settings and out of game ones. When your game screws up again you'll then know what setting it was and turn it back down and all the others up. Or maybe change the screen resolution for the game?

Have no idea if this will work for you, but it's something to try at least. Good luck!

 

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i reinstalled cause my sound card drivers where conflicting. which is odd that it would do so all of a sudden when i hadnt had any problems with them since i started using vista 4 or 5 months ago. the reason i was using the pci card instead of the mobo sound even though i knew the drivers where out of date was i never have been able to get my mobo sound to work (yes, i enabled them in bios and disabled them when i put in the card) before i wiped it all and started over i had my settings, for the vid card and the game, just as they are in the COHhelper i posted.

it started to not let me load windows at all so i decided to wipe it all and reinstall to see if i went back to how it was before. all my drivers where the same as before i reinstalled vista cause i saved the installs from when i switched to vista and each driver update since then.

now i have a new sound card and it was vista stamped and has no problems thus far. im going to try out what brokentooth mentioned. that will majorly suck if i have to run lower settings than before to get to play the game now.



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