sykodelik

i'm sorry to triple post but i was reading down farther in the graphics rules.sgr file and look at what i found out about ATI cards (this is copied straight out of the file): # The Radeon series has a very slow path for partial # depth buffer copies. This has apparently been # fixed for 9500 and later models in the latest drivers, # but cannot be fixed on previous Radeons because of # hardware limitations. # NOTE: disabling this rule unnecessarily may lead to # very poor graphics performance. partialRule "Radeon" stringMatch cardIdentity "*Radeon*" partialRule "SlowSubrectDepthCopy" -any stringMatch cardIdentity "*7?00*" stringMatch cardIdentity "*8?00*" stringMatch cardIdentity "*9000*" stringMatch cardIdentity "*9100*" stringMatch cardIdentity "*9200*" stringMatch cardIdentity "*9300*" stringMatch cardIdentity "*9400*" stringMatch cardIdentity "ATI, Radeon" stringMatch cardIdentity "ATI, Radeon VE" stringMatch cardIdentity "ATI, Radeon Mobility" stringMatch cardIdentity "ATI, Radeon FireGL" # results in special low-impact scrolling mode. property noPartialBackingStoreCopies true # try to reduce the number of dirty rects. property dirtyRectMergeFrames 8 # use black and white cursors. The Radeons seem # to work with colour for a while, but in low # memory situations revert to flickering. option $Cursor $CursorBW

i fixed my problem this morning with rendering options by setting everything in catalyst to application controlled or the lowest setting...so i can use my hardware again but i'm back to having the graphics glitch again...i looked in the video cards.sgr file and found out that my card isn't listed in there, and probably most of the other ATI cards you guys aren't either...take a look there (make sure you uncheck the "always use" option when you open it with notepad!) and i believe we might be able to figure out at least why it's happening...

i was having those same problems with my brand new dell pc with vista home premium 32bit, intel pentium dual cpu e2160 @ 1.8ghz each with 2g of ram, and runnin off of a brand new ATI Radeon HD2400 Pro 256mb ddr2 graphics card...that was my problem until i updated the driver and now i can't use hardware settings at all...automatically resets to default software every time i open the game...what do i do there?