- Jun 17, 2002
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I upgraded my 3.0 to 3.0 WHQL and Empire EArth started having some problems:
1) Missing text on main menu
2) cursor with blue box leaving trails
By turning off "hardware T&L" in the opttions menu (hitting the "default" button) the text comes back, and everything seems fine, but when you start the game the pointer trails and the game either crashes or is unplayable. After exiting the menues are missing text again and the pointer trails (with Hardware T&L off)
This did not manifest itself untill i upgraded to 3.0 WHQL (3.0 ran the game fine, well not really, the game would reset the computer after like 4 hrs of playing (ANYONE who plays EE knows how long that game lasts), but thats another post)
I have read in help files that the Geforce series had the same problem, but that was solved by turning the AA off in the display properties menu, so that raises 2 questions:
1) Is the ATI card suffereing from the same problems? I see in the D3D menu that AA at a minimum is 2X.... Is there any way to turn AA off?
2) If AA was the issue then why did the game run fine with cat 3.0?
and relatedly: If AA is not the issue then what is screwing with the fonts and cursor (i think the cursor is done in hardware)....
---note--- I have had degridation of fonts in Age of Mythology , you can still read them, but there is some portions of the fonts that are "smeared" like they were melting... very odd
1) Missing text on main menu
2) cursor with blue box leaving trails
By turning off "hardware T&L" in the opttions menu (hitting the "default" button) the text comes back, and everything seems fine, but when you start the game the pointer trails and the game either crashes or is unplayable. After exiting the menues are missing text again and the pointer trails (with Hardware T&L off)
This did not manifest itself untill i upgraded to 3.0 WHQL (3.0 ran the game fine, well not really, the game would reset the computer after like 4 hrs of playing (ANYONE who plays EE knows how long that game lasts), but thats another post)
I have read in help files that the Geforce series had the same problem, but that was solved by turning the AA off in the display properties menu, so that raises 2 questions:
1) Is the ATI card suffereing from the same problems? I see in the D3D menu that AA at a minimum is 2X.... Is there any way to turn AA off?
2) If AA was the issue then why did the game run fine with cat 3.0?
and relatedly: If AA is not the issue then what is screwing with the fonts and cursor (i think the cursor is done in hardware)....
---note--- I have had degridation of fonts in Age of Mythology , you can still read them, but there is some portions of the fonts that are "smeared" like they were melting... very odd
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