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Title: Black bars on fighters
Post by: Triple Ace on March 31, 2008, 08:25:46 pm

I am running the 3.6.10 beta vps and with every single build I have tried I get black bars on at least the Herc 2 and Medusa. I would love to post a screen, but when I try I just get a screen of my desktop. It does this with both opengl and direct3d. If it helps I am running an 8800GT with the 169.25 drivers.

Title: Re: Black bars on fighters
Post by: Droid803 on March 31, 2008, 09:27:41 pm

See this link:

www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,52479.0.html

(copy and paste. stupid rickroll)

Title: Re: Black bars on fighters
Post by: McCall on April 01, 2008, 03:05:52 am

This has been raised in a couple of other threads. What was suggested there was either using 3.6.10 build or older nVidia drivers. I found that going back to a slightly older driver worked best. I'm on... ummm... I think 1.62 whql. One that came out late in 2007 and is available from the nVidia 2k/xp driver archive. It fixed the problem straight away though.

I hope that helps.

EDIT: The driver I'm using is "162.65_quadro_winxp2k_english_whql"

Title: Re: Black bars on fighters
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 01, 2008, 03:06:51 am

fs2source.warpcore.org/exes/latest/taylor/20071028-win32.rar

That build, to be precise, works fine, or so I've been told. Sorry that I couldn't give a direct link, but *sigh*... it's that dimwitted day that encourages administrators to do unpleasant things.

Title: Re: Black bars on fighters
Post by: Zacam on April 01, 2008, 03:24:25 am

fs2source.warpcore.org/exes/latest/C03292008.zip

Should also work just fine.

Title: Re: Black bars on fighters
Post by: ARSPR on April 01, 2008, 04:38:18 am

This seems to be nVidia ForceWare issues (along with chessboard pattern effects over textures):

Read http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,50345.0.html (copy and paste, it's fools day and the link is FUBAR because administrators).

Before you test any new build, PLEASE test newest nvidia ForceWare 174.74. They seem to have fixed the issue with any kind of rendering in any kind of build. (I haven't been able to test myself yet: Vista-32bit + 8800GTX)

Title: Re: Black bars on fighters
Post by: terran_emperor on April 01, 2008, 09:04:50 am

is this the thing where the model is shaded white with dark stripes?

Edit: Whoa - Identity Crisis! Im colecampbell666. Damn Admins. Damn them! Damn them all to Hell!!
Whomever Rickrolled us is one sick puppy...Oh well at least its not the teletubbies theme! :eek2: :shaking: or worse the dredded Barney Song

Title: Re: Black bars on fighters
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 01, 2008, 11:45:47 am

(http://koti.mbnet.fi/reiler/breakdown.jpg)
I... don't... know... who... I am! Yargh!

As a side note, yes. This is the "zebra ships" issue. I think...

Title: Re: Black bars on fighters
Post by: terran_emperor on April 01, 2008, 12:57:44 pm

Yeah thats the problem i meant.

Even major ID crisis. As of typing this i am aparently both Snail and Top Ace

Title: Re: Black bars on fighters
Post by: Triple Ace on April 01, 2008, 01:09:56 pm

Thanks I'll try these. I'll hold off on that 174.74 Forceware for now though. I beleive thats a beta driver. Another ID crisis, it seems I'm Colonol Dekker now. Hey Admins, go easy would ya? I get more on this day than anyone else, its my birthday so I get even more abuse.