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Issues with TSE demos in full-screen

by Keith Frampton · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 03/01/2006 (7:05 am) · 5 replies

I happened to be in Windows the other day & decided to try out the 3 TSE demos on the site. The first demo released had no issues with it. The Car & Dojo had some rather odd screen corruption to it in full-screen. Window mode was fine. I have Windows XP with the latest updates installed, DirectX 9.0c & version 81.98 of the nvidia driver. I have a 6600GT in a PCI Express system. Below are the screen shots if it can help out in any way. I've tried changing to different resolutions & checking out different options in the options menu, but all produced the same result.

home.crrstv.net/kframp/tse/car1.jpg
home.crrstv.net/kframp/tse/car2.jpg
home.crrstv.net/kframp/tse/dojo1.jpg
home.crrstv.net/kframp/tse/dojo2.jpg

#1
03/09/2006 (4:35 pm)
I also have a 6600GT in a PCI Express system and have the exact same problem with the TSE demo's. I have another system with an AGP version of the same card which has the same problem. Running the demo in windowed mode does not produce these oddities.

Also I get very low frame rates, sometimes dropping as little as 8fps. I have other games installed and have never had problems maintaining reasonable frame rates, so I don't believe my system specs are causing the problem. My guess is TSE has an issue with our type of video card.

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System Specs

Gigabyte 8I915P duo
Intel P4 775 3GHz
1Gb dual channel memory
NX6600GT 128mb Video
#2
03/10/2006 (10:28 am)
So it would seem... maybe knowing that it happens with this card, they might be able to figure it out (unless it has something to do with the driver itself). I wonder if other higher end nvidia cards would do this as well?
#3
03/10/2006 (10:44 am)
It does this for me too. It didn't use to do it, but having recently downloaded and compiling the latest HEAD, it now behaves this way.

I also have a Geforce 6600 GT PCIe with the 81.98 nVidia drivers.
#4
03/10/2006 (11:41 am)
Looks like a Driver problem to me. I have Geforce 6600 GT PCIe Driver 78.01 and have no problems, other than the known issues.
#5
03/11/2006 (6:58 pm)
Well now... it seems the video driver has solved it for me as well. I tried all the drivers (going backwards installing them). The 78.01 (released in September 2005) worked.