I have no textures. Irritating...

Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:51 am by Suntiger

Alright, so I've just installed Freelancer on my XP Pro system, and upon running it I don't have any textures. Everything shows up just fine through the destruction of Freeport 7 in the opening, but as soon as the news broadcast comes up, the textures go away and everything just appears as tan.

My system is as follows: 1ghz Pentium III 384mb RAM. 2 monitors (both of which cause the same problem), one on a GeForce FX5200 and one on a GeForce2 MX. Windows XP Pro running the Vista Transformation Pack 3.1 (though I doubt that's the problem...) Freelancer is installed on a 38gb ext2 partition (yes, I have Windows drivers for ext2 installed) with all of Louva-Deus' patches/QuickFixes.

I searched through the forums and tried just about everything anyone suggested to fix graphical problems, and no luck. Can anyone help me get this thing working?

Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:49 pm by Aceaz

Tried updating graphics drivers?

Failing that, you could always give it a fresh install and see how that goes.

Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:50 am by Suntiger

I do have the latest Nvidia driver package installed (I believe it's nForce 83.something) on both cards.

Haven't tried a reinstall yet, I was going to use that as a last resort and if that didn't work just dual-boot with a clean Win2K install.

Tue Jun 06, 2006 11:32 am by junior1210

Ok here's a dumb question, and please don't flame me for it. Did you or have you obtained th newest versions of directx? Also have you checked MS support pages? I know it's dumb but a blind spot by definition is a place you don't see.

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Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:24 am by Suntiger

Yes, and yes. I have the latest DirectX (it's 9.0c, isn't it?), and I have run through the MS support database and tried everything they told me to.

And I agree about obvious blindspots, I've seen that happen fairly often. Like when you call tech support about a printer, the first two questions will always be "Is it plugged in" and "Is it connected to your computer."

Wed Jun 07, 2006 3:02 pm by Cold_Void

i have both those gfx cards and i've never experienced any graphics problems -
for the geforce2 mx i would recommend using the drivers that came with it, or if you can't find them do some googling and find out what other users are recommending; note that the detonator series of drivers have been cited as unstable and difficult to install/uninstall - so avoid them

vista transformation pack?erg. haven't tried it but i think anything M$ is suspect

Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:56 am by Suntiger

That's just the thing, the Vista transpack isn't by M$. It's by some third-party group of coders who realized that the only thing that's really in Vista and not in XP is Aero Glass, then coded it into XP. Which is why I think that may be screwing things up...

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