Problem with the kit on my laptop...
by Ulric Boel · in Torque X Platformer Kit · 07/20/2007 (6:41 am) · 11 replies
Hi there,
I bought and installed your excellent kit on my laptop (Dell Latitude D520 - Intel 945GM Express), I have no problem compiling...but when I run the game, I can only see the background, the little devil and the peppers...no platforms appearing...no water neither...the game seems to work fine (I can move the player object, it is correctly animated, I can collect the peppers, I have all the sounds playing correctly...) but I can't see where I'm walking!!!
I tested all the other TorqueX demos on the laptop...they are all working properly!!!
I tested the kit on my desktop at home and there i have no problem...I can play normally...
Is this normal? Is this a bug?
Ulric Boel
I bought and installed your excellent kit on my laptop (Dell Latitude D520 - Intel 945GM Express), I have no problem compiling...but when I run the game, I can only see the background, the little devil and the peppers...no platforms appearing...no water neither...the game seems to work fine (I can move the player object, it is correctly animated, I can collect the peppers, I have all the sounds playing correctly...) but I can't see where I'm walking!!!
I tested all the other TorqueX demos on the laptop...they are all working properly!!!
I tested the kit on my desktop at home and there i have no problem...I can play normally...
Is this normal? Is this a bug?
Ulric Boel
#2
Do you know if there is any plan to make it work on the 945GM?
07/22/2007 (10:04 pm)
Ahhh...crap!!!!Do you know if there is any plan to make it work on the 945GM?
#3
EDIT: Also when i tried the TXB demo on it. The loading screen shows but no start screen.
07/23/2007 (2:52 am)
I have a problem with my a latop too. ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 seems to crash. I keep getting drivers have crashed and now recovered. When is all the Torque X code inc DLL's moving to C# ? Or is it already all ported already? I don't have a problem running other XNA games like spacewar.EDIT: Also when i tried the TXB demo on it. The loading screen shows but no start screen.
#4
You just seem to have a driver stability problem. Perhaps should you try a complete un-install and clean-up of the ATI drivers that are on your machine then rte-install the latest driver from ATI. For the purpose, there is a great tool called Driver Sweeper. You be able to find it here:
downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1655
Perhaps this will solve your problem.
Regards
07/23/2007 (4:37 am)
@Vishal: You just seem to have a driver stability problem. Perhaps should you try a complete un-install and clean-up of the ATI drivers that are on your machine then rte-install the latest driver from ATI. For the purpose, there is a great tool called Driver Sweeper. You be able to find it here:
downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1655
Perhaps this will solve your problem.
Regards
#5
Sorry to dump the question on the this thread.
EDIT: I managed to get to the end of the level by checking fixed width in TBX. But when I switch windows and switch back the error still appears. Maybe a graphics reload problem. If we can force a full screen then it might work. Don't know how to do that yet :(
07/23/2007 (7:53 am)
I tried re-installing display drivers RADEON XPRESS 200M Series. But it didn't work. Is this a problem the platform starter kit or the entire Torque X system ? Does it work on any laptop with a wide screen ?Sorry to dump the question on the this thread.
EDIT: I managed to get to the end of the level by checking fixed width in TBX. But when I switch windows and switch back the error still appears. Maybe a graphics reload problem. If we can force a full screen then it might work. Don't know how to do that yet :(
#6
You should be using the catalyst drivers from the AMD site as you do not have a radeon express 200M. The last set of drivers were 6.2 I think.
07/25/2007 (8:51 am)
@VishalYou should be using the catalyst drivers from the AMD site as you do not have a radeon express 200M. The last set of drivers were 6.2 I think.
#7
That's what system information said! That I have 200M but the error message was 1150 :O
I tired them both but still can only get to the end (sometimes) if no others windows or windows pop-up's cover the platform window. I manage to get it to work by making the screen smaller 600 x 800. (so that the taskbar doesn't cover the window), but still sometimes it happens. I'm guessing if any other program wants to show some kind of graphics it messes up the game. Does anyone know how to make the game full screen? I want to see if the crash stills happens.
07/26/2007 (1:19 am)
@Peter. That's what system information said! That I have 200M but the error message was 1150 :O
I tired them both but still can only get to the end (sometimes) if no others windows or windows pop-up's cover the platform window. I manage to get it to work by making the screen smaller 600 x 800. (so that the taskbar doesn't cover the window), but still sometimes it happens. I'm guessing if any other program wants to show some kind of graphics it messes up the game. Does anyone know how to make the game full screen? I want to see if the crash stills happens.
#9
It's got 2 GB RAM
AMD Dual core
vista basic
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 HyperMemory
07/27/2007 (6:04 am)
Dell Inspirion 1501It's got 2 GB RAM
AMD Dual core
vista basic
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 HyperMemory
#10
Be careful that with Vista, you have first to uninstall all the existing drivers for your graphic card before installing new ones. The default built in Vista drivers may sometimes cause problems...I had the problem when installing Vista and trying to upgrade my video drivers with the latest build from nVidia.
Try to use the tool I referenced previously to cleanup your installed Vista video drivers...then try the latest Catalyst for Vista.
07/27/2007 (6:31 am)
@Vishal:Be careful that with Vista, you have first to uninstall all the existing drivers for your graphic card before installing new ones. The default built in Vista drivers may sometimes cause problems...I had the problem when installing Vista and trying to upgrade my video drivers with the latest build from nVidia.
Try to use the tool I referenced previously to cleanup your installed Vista video drivers...then try the latest Catalyst for Vista.
#11
EDIT: still not working on window mode. But works ok when backbuffer and screen res are the same and it's running on full screen mode.
07/27/2007 (6:39 am)
I still don't understand why it shows the message every few seconds. But i'll give it a go!EDIT: still not working on window mode. But works ok when backbuffer and screen res are the same and it's running on full screen mode.
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