Jerky graphics

[Koranthis]

I'm unable to play the game due to the jurky graphics on the ship. My mouse pointer flutter like it's going between 2 sizes and when the ship is sitting still it looks fine as soon as it starts to move it starts acting like the mouse. Using the Nvidia 93.71 drivers with 7800 GTX x2 SLI

[scoutee]

I'm unable to play the game due to the jurky graphics on the ship. My mouse pointer flutter like it's going between 2 sizes and when the ship is sitting still it looks fine as soon as it starts to move it starts acting like the mouse.


Driver Packaging Version 8.351-070302a1-043741C-ATI
Catalyst® Version 07.3
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 7.01.01.613
2D Driver File Path /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/Class/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0000
Direct3D Version 7.14.10.0487
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.0717
Catalyst® Control Center Version 2007.0320.2241.38712
Graphics Card Manufacturer Powered by ATI
Graphics Chipset RADEON X300/X550 Series
Device ID 5B60
Vendor 1002

Subsystem ID 0401
Subsystem Vendor ID 1545

Bus Type PCI Express
Current Bus Setting PCI Express x16

BIOS Version 000.128.000.000
BIOS Part Number BK-ATI VER008.015.128.000
BIOS Date 2005/10/12

Memory Size 895 MB
Memory Type HyperMemory

Core Clock in MHz 324 MHz
Memory Clock in MHz 196 MHz

Primary Display Yes

[AzHole]

Same exact issue as these guys, everything looks ok until a ship moves and its jerking all over the place. From other games, it appears that it might have something to do with using dual video cards (GEForce 7950 GX2 1GB SLIs here - one card but 2 vid's). I disabled dual video mode in my nVidia settings with no luck, still jerking all over the place. Using the most recent drivers from nVidia as well, so can't do anything there besides hunt down some Betas. Any assistance would be helpful, I just bought the game today and can't even get into playing it because of the jerking. As a developer myself, it almost looks like the system is rendering a frame on one card, then switching to the second card that has a frame ahead or behind it in time, so it jerks back to the wrong rendering frame, then hops back to the right one when it switches, and so on. Don't know if that'll help solve the issue but...worth a try.

[Wolfman]

Can you please give some info on OS versions you guys are using?

[AzHole]

Windows XP Pro SP2
AMD 64Bit Dual Proc 3.0GHz
4GB RAM (though Windowz only see's 2.5GB worth)

Anything else?

[noah3d]

Can you tell us which version of drivers you have installed and give us the state of "3d settings" in nVidia control panel (triple buffering, hardware acceleration etc.). We are trying to reproduce the problem and we need more info about your system.

[AzHole]

Can you tell us which version of drivers you have installed and give us the state of "3d settings" in nVidia control panel (triple buffering, hardware acceleration etc.). We are trying to reproduce the problem and we need more info about your system.

Not a problem!

Current video driver: 6.14.10.9371 (93.71 nVidia release) on an nVidia GeForce 7950 GX2 (Wide screen display, resolution at 1400x900x32bit)

3D Settings:

I don't have a profile made for Genesis, so it's running off my global settings.

Anisotropic filtering: Application controlled
Anisotropic mip filter opt: Off
Anisotropic sample opt: On
Antialiasing settings: Application controlled
Conformant texture clamp: Use Hardware
Error reporting: Off
Extension limit: Off
Force mipmaps: None
Gamma correct antialiasing: Off
Hardware accelaration: Multiple display performance mode
Multi-GPU performance mode: NVIDIA Recommended (default value)
Negative LOD Bias: Allow
Texture Filtering: Quality
Threaded Optimization: Auto
Transparency Antialiasing: Off
Trillinear Optimization: On
Triple buffering: Off
Vertical Sync: Use the 3d application setting

As far as I know most of these are the default settings, I've never played with them in the control panel. Anything else?

[AzHole]

noah3d, I fixed the problem, not entirely sure if this was the solution though. I uninstalled all the graphics drivers (anything nVidia except the items installed for my motherboard, since it's using an onboard nVidia chipset for just about everything...) and installed the newest BETA drivers available from nVidia themselves, Version 93.81. Game works flawlessly now. Others might want to try the same and see what happens, but dang, looking good now!

[noah3d]

Thanks for the info, I'm glad that game works now for you. We did try to reproduce this but with no luck :).
I'm just curious when you say ALL graphics drivers did you mean nVidia drivers and drivers from card manufacturer or what?

[AzHole]

I went into my Add/Remove Programs and went to uninstall the 'nVidia Drivers'. It produced a message box asking which nVidia drivers I wanted to remove, which included video, 3d video, networking, IDE, and PCI Bridges. I removed everything but network/IDE/PCI and then did the install with the beta drivers. I'm not sure if it's the fact that I'm using the Beta drivers, or that I may have had older drivers laying around with newer drivers installed on top of it, can't be sure. When I go to my listing now, I only have those above 3 items and 3d Video, so it's quite probable that this was the case, but either way, just happy its running and looking as beautiful as I hoped it would!