Texture problems, HELP!

Sat May 17, 2003 3:27 pm by [[]-will-]

Okay, I've installed freelancer on my brothers computer - which uses and onboard vid card (some trident card).

There is one problem though, which also happens to be a very big problem.

Tesxtures are screwed. text (on menus, etc) will appear to jump around the screen being stretched into some odd triangle shape and flickers from place to place. Even the first "freelancer" loading screen you see is stuffed. Heres a screenshot of what I mean:

Other than this problem the game runs fine. Please help!

Sat May 17, 2003 4:29 pm by Thunder Child

Check the game's readme, see if the card is supported by the game
Update drivers for the card

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Sat May 17, 2003 11:43 pm by TheJkWhoSaysNi

If it has a small amount of video memory it wont display texures properly...

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Sun May 18, 2003 10:15 am by [[]-will-]

It has 8MB video memory iirc, is that the problem? I might be able to increase it from bios or something...

Sun May 18, 2003 4:22 pm by ice razor

-to Will-

First thing I would do is install new updated drivers. I don't believe that on an 8mg onboard chip you will be able to change it in the bios. If the new drivers do not work, I would purchase a new video card, disable the onboard video in the device manager, and install the new card. Most the new cards will have new drivers that will make you gaming experience awesome. I myself hate boards with integrated devices, because of exactly this problem. They are inproving the onboard devices but it is along way off before the will be able to compete with the regular video cards, and honestly I don't think they will ever be as good as the regular cards. Good Luck

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