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Transparency Issues

by Jeff Gran · in Torque Game Engine · 05/12/2005 (7:15 pm) · 1 replies

We are having issues with our transparent DTS objects.

The transparency works fine on most computers we have tested the game on, but one computer displays the transparent textures incorrectly. The bad machine's specs are:

Dell Inspiron 8200
Intel Pentium 4 mobile 1.60 GHz
1 gig of ram shipped with 256
a GeForce 4 440 go from NVIDIA

The user also has found that with the latest version of the drivers, Torque will not load at all, instead complaining that "no video driver can be found" or something to that effect. Other games run fine. So instead the user is using an older version of the drivers (2.7.5.0).

Here are two screenshots, one with the textures displaying correctly and the other taken from the machine in question. Is this a Torque bug?

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05/12/2005 (8:09 pm)
Are they getting the drivers from Dell or from nVidia? For a very long time the nVidia drivers have not supported laptops but will quietly fail so it appears you have the drivers installed even though you are relying on the Windows drivers instead.