Whenever I enter a server, my textures are all messed up. Like black squares appear all over the ground, and if i turn in certatin directions, my entire HUD gets blocky, like squares. If some1 can gimme a way for a in-game screenie, it would be appreciated.
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Cursory glance suggests your in-game graphics settings are set obscenely low; check those first.
I remember this problem. Something in my prefs caused it.
Start by deleting all dso files found in your various base folders, and then when you fire up the game, in your graphics settings in the game make sure you do not have "vertex lighting" enabled. Also, set all texture sliders full right.
What hardware are we dealing with here? What is your vid card?
Here's a clientprefs you can copy/paste/rename clientprefs.cs and try:
Also, set threaded optimisation to disabled too.
Also, set anisotropic filtering to disabled too.
If you run game profiles in the driver control panel set them as stated above for t2.
Though only some cards have the problem. I had it back when I used an older Radeon card, but I can use anti-aliasing just fine with my current nVidia card.
http://gamefiles.androctasiae.net/tribes2/scripts/UberGuy/cleanDSO.zip
"// #autoload
// #name = cleanDSO
// #version = 1.0
// #date = December 21, 2001
// #author = Paul Tousignant
// #warrior = UberGuy (FT)
// #email = uberguy@tribes2.org
// #web = http://uberguy.tribes2.org
// #description = Remove all your *.dso files every time you exit T2.
// #category = UberGuy's Scripts
// #status = Release
CleanDSO.cs
Version 1.0
by UberGuy (FT) - uberguy@tribes2.org
December 21, 2001
REQUIRES: Nothing
=================
I hate *.dso files. They clutter. They interfere with script installs. They
suck!
Nevermore. Now all your dso's are toast thanks to this handy little script.
Just toss this script in place and it takes care of it all for you. The dso
files are deleted just before you exit T2. They come back each time you play, of
course, but you'll be guaranteed to never have old ones laying around again.
TO INSTALL:
===========
Place cleanDSO.vl2 anywhere under Tribes2\GameData\base.
Play T2! The script has no options to configure. It does its work silently.
Enjoy!"
A better option would probably be to get the latest drivers for the card and install, and make sure all the options are set to "Application controlled" from the card's control panel.
And have you tried running in Compatibility Mode yet?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_180.48_whql.html
I prefer it because it has no code for older cards, just the g80 and later cores.
Give that a shot if you feel like it.
What os are you running?
yeah, this is xp, i cant use
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_195.62_whql.html
I'm running an 8300GS with these same drivers and have no troubles at all -- actually better performance in almost everything compared to earlier drivers. If your card has 256MB onboard that's higher than my card even. Other than settings like antialiasing or anisotropy set in the Nvidia CP, I'm out of ideas as to what could be causing your issue.
How much RAM does the box have?
here ya go:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_180.48_whql.html
Now tell us what you did so when the next player has this issue he can get some relief?
When you unistall things like drivers it is best done in safe mode to ensure most of the driver is actually removed. If you uninstall drivers under windows and not in safe mode, parts of the driver cannot be removed as they are in use. In safe mode no 3rd party drivers are running. There are also apps that can help in this as they delete any leftovers such as dlls and registry entries made by the driver but left behind at the driver removal.
driver cleansing app:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745
registry cleaner:
http://www.ccleaner.com/