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GF FX5900 Ultra - Garbled Text in Xwing Alliance

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wilki24

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I just upgraded to a GF FX5900 Ultra, and while I was digging through my software, I found Xwing Alliance and decided to play it. However, all text in the HUD in-game is garbled. I can just barely read it if I stare at it long enough, but it pretty much makes the single player missions unplayable since you can't tell what your objectives are.

Things I've tried:
- Playing with the AA/AF settings
- Disabling/Enabling Cleartype
- Different resolutions/colors
- Updating the mobo bios
- Tried 3 newer versions of Detonators (doing a clean install each time)
- Tried two old version 20.xx and 30.82 Dets (which don't work with the 5900 Ultra)

Now, reading up on some XWA boards, it seems that this problem has been popping up now and then for bother ATI and nVidia users, and while some people fixed it by driver upgrades, some people could not. Not everyone seems to have this problem.

I know this is a long shot, since it's a 4 year old game, but I found some updated models that were created by a fansite, and thought I'd play it again.

So does anyone have/had this problem, and know how to fix it?
 
Ok, after playing around some more, I decided to stick my old GF 4400 back into my machine. I had the same problem.

Then I moved back to the 30.82 det's, and the text is clear! So it's something that nVidia has done in their drivers that is causing the corruption.

Too bad the 30.82's won't run a GF 5900 Ultra :-(
 
I tried XWA with my Ti4400 and something like the 31.09's I think, and there was no issue. But I don't think they support 5900's either :/
 
First of all, turn off AA and AF. Then if you still have problems move the driver Direct3D texel alignment slider back to its default and continue to adjust it until the problem is gone. If you still have problems then it's probably a driver issue.

Oh, and make sure you're running the latest version of DirectX 9.0b and make sure you're running X-Wing Alliance version 2.02.
 
Already tried all the AA/AF settings, using the latest version of DX9 (reinstalled just in case), and patched Xwing Alliance to 2.02.

Also, I don't think newer nVidia drivers have a texel alignment silder anymore. If they do, I can't find it.

 
I found a texel alignment slider in RivaTuner, however it's disabled for GeForce 3 and above cards :-(

It seems as if this is impossible.
 
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