choppy menu displays while scrolling

Thu Mar 06, 2003 11:41 pm by pen is mightier

Is anyone else having a problem with the menus in freelancer. when i scroll down a menu, in flight or not, the game gets real choppy. everything is up to date in my system. And i did a complete windows reinstall about 10 days ago when i upgraded my mb.

Thu Mar 06, 2003 11:49 pm by pen is mightier

sorry... System specs
amd 1800+ not oc'd
epox 8rda+(nforce 2) chipset and bios updated
ati all in wonder 9700 pro (catalyst 3.1)
2 x 512 ddr pc2700 dual channel
3 maxtor 60 gigs
cdr 40x12x40
dvd 16x
more than enough cooling 15 fans (front bottom to rear top flow) lian li pc-70/75
promise pci ata 133 x 2
xp pro sp1 + all updates
antec truepower550

Fri Mar 07, 2003 1:25 am by hurg

This is a known problem with ATI Radeon Cards. See the supplied README file or:

Open Display Properties -> Advanced -> Troubleshoot

Take the Hardware Acceleration slider down one notch and click OK.

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Hurg

Fri Mar 07, 2003 2:57 pm by Ch3W

I have this problem.. and I have a Radeon 9700pro card.
Are there any known fixes/patches for this bug?

Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:15 pm by pen is mightier

I havn't tried doing what hurg said to do yet, but i did lower my screen resolution to 800x600 and it works much better. If you have any other problems with your 9700 pro card let me know. I have been working with it for a month now trying to get the damn thing working correctly. ATI has always been a little buggy, but if it is tweaked it can work very well.

Fri Mar 07, 2003 5:02 pm by Ch3W

I just don't want to lower my hardware accel... I paid good money for that card and I don't want any slow down because of it.

What a sack of sh*t

Fri Mar 07, 2003 6:46 pm by Gryf

This is a known issue with Windows and Radeon/ATI drivers when rendering rich text. ATI is addressing the issue in a driver update but no ETA has been advertised.

Sorry to tell ya'll that,

Mike "Gryf" Weber
Freelancer Tester
Digital Anvil Studio

Wed Mar 12, 2003 5:55 am by pen is mightier

I just noticed, i changed my colors to 1024 x 768x16 from 1024x768x32 not to a resolution of 800x600. sorry. And it does work much better and still looks great

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