SiS 630/730 choppy/fragged text/button labels

Sat Mar 08, 2003 2:39 am by Vexar

I have the following configuration:

SiS 730 display chip, with 16Mb of video memory, and a 100Mhz video clock speed.
using display driver 2.00c1
WIndows 2000 Professional
Directx 9.0
1 Ghz Athlon CPU
512Mb of RAM

I am experiencing symptoms that remind me of a sci-fi movie with Sean Connery, where the view would occasionally glitch forward. Unfortunately, this is beyond ambient!

Almost every button that highlights yellow when clicked or selected, and most of the text in the spaceflight view lower panes briefly flickers in for a frame, but otherwise is invisible. I've learned which is "accept" and "cancel" by trial and error through the interface, but I would love to know what all's going on with my ship in combat. Incidentally, I don't have problems with mission text descriptions, item/ship descriptions, and so forth.

Any thoughts?

-- Vexar

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Thu Mar 27, 2003 7:47 pm by Dreyoh Tau

hehe, we r the l337, we play without seeing the buttons, but i too have this problem and if anyone knows how to fix it... please tell us how!

Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:16 pm by Dreyoh Tau

c'mon, i really want to be able to see what i am doing. can anyone help me

Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:21 pm by Vexar

Didn't you get my email of odd suggestions to work around the lack of buttons?

Wed Apr 02, 2003 7:23 am by Nog

SiS?

SiS Boards are good economy MB's but they are hardly optimized for gaming.

The problem is the amount of video memory you have. Freelancer requires at least 32 megs. Also, in reality, SiS's onboard video cards have no real memory at all. Instead they allocate system ram exclusively for the card. You may want to adjust your AGP aperature size to match that of your video ram (seems to work well with SiS cards). You may also be able to adjust the actual ram used for video. Look in your bios for a selection that says
"Video Memory Allocation" If it's there turn it up to at least 32 (Just go for 64, you have plenty of ram)

Make sure all your drivers are up to date too. Sis has many recent driver updates on their site.

Hope this helps.

Wed Apr 02, 2003 2:27 pm by Dreyoh Tau

i have it set on 64 and the lastest drivers.. i also have a nice GF2 64mb but i didn't realise i had no AGP slot when i bought it!! :@ i am curently saving for a new motherboard so i can fit it, i was just wondering if there was anything i could do in the meantime... *stupid me*

Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:31 am by PhoenixKnight

I've got the same problem, and forgive me for sounding dumb but what's the AGP aperture and how do I change it?

"Those who crave the Dark cannot control the Dark." ~ Sydney Losstarot, Vagrant Story

Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:17 pm by dark_agent343

i think your computer over heated. i know the card has the video for it. my moms computer can play it with 16megs and her cpu sucks only 500mhrz. and yet it plays just fine. try reinstlling your mobo drivers.

later

p.s dont look behind u

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