9700Pro + 1942 = no text at profile screen.

[nitrousninja]

I just installed it and every thing else runs fine but when the game gets to the choose profile creen there is no text at all. All of the boxes and background are there and work but no letters or numbers appear. Any ideas? I tried with a 60Mhz refresh and others, woith and without ANI or AA. It's wierd but at least it's a demo and not the full version. All of my other games are fine though.

 

[Wolfsraider]

there was a link to rage 3d to a thread concerning this:

Originally posted by: apoppin
ATI replies:

The problems you described are not endemic to all 9700's -- In fact, the 9700 is very stable with nearly all D3D and OGL games we've tried. We've confirmed some control panel problems, an issue with Battle: 1942 and medieval total war. Some of these items will be fixed in the next driver release.

The problems you are having appear to be systemic to your system. Overclocking or a bad OS/Driver install could cause these problems. Conflicts with other devices is also a possibility. Finally, a low power PS might be at fault. You should try running with the latest motherboard bios and without any other cards installed. Make sure you've removed your old drivers and re-install from scratch the 9700 drivers.

You need to isolate the problem. Otherwise, it's unlikely any driver change will make any difference. Each 9700 card shipped by ATI right now has been tested heavily with multiple motherboards (yes, it's slow, but the initial cards are tested heavily) -- It's possible, but unlikely, that your card is bad. Very unlikely that all your friends' problems are due to bad cards. Both internal testing and reviewer testing had shown stable cards, with a good set of different motherboards.

Good luck.

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hope this helps
mike

 

[BFG10K]

The BF 1942 text problem is a known issue and will be addressed in the next driver release.

 

[nitrousninja]

Cool. Hopefully it's soon because if I don't run someone over with a jeep soon I'll go crazy!