openGL patch problem w/ATI Radeon

[Gozer]

I installed the patch and I seem to be having problems with the display. The graphics are tearing almost as though there is a clipping problem. I tried 2.1.0.5 - 2.1.0.7 and the same thing occurs. I am running:

Win98
Celeron 1Ghz
128 ram
Ati Radeon 7500

I have installed the latest drivers for the vid card as well as the latest chipset drivers. I am have browsed the forum and have tried everything to get this to work.... any other suggestions?

[Kerilkkorn]

Is your desktop depth set to 32bit ?

[Gozer]

Desktop is set to 32bpp and Unreal is patched to 226f.

[Kerilkkorn]

try setting (names might not be accurate but you should recognize the settings)
useAGPtextures to false
useprecache to false
doprecache to false
if there is a videomemoryVB turn it to false too

[Grand]

It doesn't work. I have:

98SE/2000 pro SP3
Athlon XP
384 RAM
ATI Radeon 7500 DDR

Take a look at this horror. By the way the same with your UT OpenGL patch and Epic S3TC OpenGL.dll (in UT).[img]D:\games\Unreal\System\Shot0000.JPG[/img]

[Gozer]

I've tried those settings and then some, I tried every trick that so far had been posted for others who have had problems, nothing seems to have any effect. Shame too, what little I can see looks really, really good.

I took a shot of what happens, it's not the worst but it gives you an idea of what it looks like.
www.geocites.com/thetruegozer/images/Shot.jpg
This is the Nali Castle, flying up through the battlements.... thinking maybe the gl patch don't work so well w/ ATI 7x00 series....

Just a note for others who are having problems with a Radeon 7500 : I have tried running D3D and the frame rate possitively sucked(226f). I reinstalled, patched to 224 and tried it all again. This is when I took the shot w/2.1.0.6 gl. However, I can now run D3D with acceptable FPS, don't look as good as gl, but it looks better than software and it's much faster at high res. Better than nothing

[Kerilkkorn]

Sorry I can't manage to see the pic. Anyway you must be right, I don't see anything but an incompatibility withe the 7500. But I could be wrong as I don't own the card and I'm currently on XP.

[nullie]

The correct URL for the image is : http://www.geocities.com/thetruegozer/images/Shot.jpg

[Kerilkkorn]

404 forever.....
I still can't see, but I don't think it will help me anyway....

[Turboman.]

I also have a problem with an ATI based card (3d prophet 7500 DDR 64 MB) running the new opengl patch, not only the new ogl patch but also the ogl that ships with the game, and even the ogl from unreal tournament has the same problem.

or i get a gpf during startup or the polygones and verticles of the geometry are messed up around the screen, heres a shot what i mean: [img]http://temp.schullermail.nl/polygonvertex.jpg[/img]

i think its driver related because i remember i used very old ATI drivers 2 months ago and then the OGL showed up fine, maybe downgrading your drivers may fix the problem?

[Hyper]

Try the following:
Enable S3TC in unreal.ini, opengl drv section
Disable Hyper-Z
Disable Z-compression
Enable 32-bit Z-Buffer

[Hyper]

Try these OpenGL settings. (replace current settings in Unreal.ini)

[OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice]
Translucency=True
VolumetricLighting=True
ShinySurfaces=True
Coronas=True
HighDetailActors=True
DetailTextures=True
GammaOffset=0.000000
LODBias=0.000000
MaxLogTextureSize=8
MinLogTextureSize=1
MaxLogVOverU=8
MaxLogUOverV=8
MaxAnisotropy=3
MaxTMUnits=3
RefreshRate=0
DetailMax=3
UseFisheye=False
NoFiltering=False
DisableSpecialDT=False
UseFilterSGIS=True
Use4444Textures=False
UseTNT=False
UseS3TC=True
UseVertexSpecular=True
AlwaysMipmap=False
UseAlphaPalette=True
UsePalette=True
UseTrilinear=True
UseMultitexture=True
ShareLists=False
DoPrecache=True

[Turboman.]

I copied over the settings to my unreal.ini and i still have the same problem

i am almost pretty sure its driver related, only i cant seem to find my old ATI drivers

[Hyper]

http://mirror.ati.com/support/products/radeonwinmepreviousdrivers.html
http://www.rage3d.com/files/?page=radeon

[Gozer]

I don't know what possessed me to do this but, I tried running with OpenGL again and now it works fine.... go figure. Either one of two things have made this happen, maybe both. I installed another 512MB of ram, and for some reason I think the ATI drivers might be broken.

Why do I think that? For some reason GLQuake won't run in a resolution higher than 400x300 anymore and now Unreal seems to work. :-/

[Hyper]

I don't know what possessed me to do this but, I tried running with OpenGL again and now it works fine.... go figure. Either one of two things have made this happen, maybe both. I installed another 512MB of ram, and for some reason I think the ATI drivers might be broken.

Why do I think that? For some reason GLQuake won't run in a resolution higher than 400x300 anymore and now Unreal seems to work.   :-/

Try running GLQuake with the following options:
glquake.exe -width 1024 -height 768 -bpp 32

[Gozer]

I did, it locked up. Every resolution above 400x300 locked it up. Funny thing is QuakeForge ran with no problems.

Well it's fixed now, the drivers were broken. I reinstalled them and fixed my other problems but, now Unreal is broken again. LOL. I know it sounds melodramatic but, taking this computer out back and put it out of it's misery with a shotgun seems like the way to go.

[Hyper]

When 32 bits won't run: Use 16 bits instead of 32:
glquake.exe -width 1024 -height 768 -bpp 16