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TGE and Vista

by Howard Dortch · in Torque Game Engine · 10/29/2007 (7:29 am) · 6 replies

I have TGE 1.5.2 and Vista, new 2900 XT video withCatalyst drivers.
When the game runs, I get odd visuals in the sky like a triangle being stretched from horizion to horizion.
Anyone know of a fix ?
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Associate David Montgomery-Blake
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#1
10/29/2007 (7:31 am)
Do you have the latest drivers from the manufacturer and not the Windows Update compatibility mode drivers? Compatibility mode drivers often have strange artifacts.

Torque 3D Owner Howard Dortch
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#2
10/29/2007 (7:51 am)
Yes I got drivers from AMD/ATI site. Had the problem before as well so it doesn't seem to be a driver issue. I did the engine build using MSVC 6 but not sure that would affect it, more like an openGL/Vista prob.

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#3
10/29/2007 (9:01 am)
Have you seen any other complaints about GL drivers on that specific card? I know that some cards have sketchy drivers for GL on Vista, but am not sure which ones. A lot of the problems have been cleared up, but more keep wriggling out of the woodwork.

Torque 3D Owner Howard Dortch
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#4
10/29/2007 (9:11 am)
Just got off phone with AMD, sent them a copy seems it's an ATI issue, game runs fine with Nvidia card. So if anyone out there has a ATI/Vista combination would chime in I would appreciate it. Now I kinda know this it seems it's not a TGE engine problem.

Torque Owner Jonathan Wetherall
#5
10/30/2007 (3:23 pm)
I have had exactly the same problem apparently the Open GL drivers for ATI are poor under vista. What is confusing me is that this has not come across from other OGL apps i think it is probably a TGE problem. I am running both a TGEA and a TGE build at the moment with varying success on different machines! On the whole TGEA is better for compliance

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10/30/2007 (3:28 pm)
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