SUBJECT: GTF Perseus that had weird offcentered cockpit
Taylor: "That's the hi-poly one [GTF Perseus] right? The new one with glowpoints or the older one? I haven't noticed this but I don't think I've tried with the glowpointed one yet. Could be code releated but then it should affect all ships."
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SUBJECT: The Polygon Stretch Corruption then Green Garbage not to mention DirectX itself being taken out temporarily...
Taylor: "Holy crap dude! Anyone else having this problem I've been testing this build for the past 3 days without issue. There are a few D3D changes to try and fix the ALT-TAB crash but they didn't help much. Those should only be used when running D3D though and never be used in OpenGL mode. Even so it shouldn't cause problems like this. I'll go over everything just to make sure that there isn't an obvious problem. I am going to update the current build without those D3D changes though, just in case.
And what driver version are you running? If anyone else has this problem please say so as quickly as possible."
RESPONSE TO #1: The glowpointed version is what I believe I am using at this time. No idea about standard. Again, unless I can be assured of no long or short term damage to my card from stretched polys, green garbage, complete system slowdown and complete disabling of my AGP capabilities on my ATI card requiring a system reboot, that they are SAFE and won't damage the card...
The fact that a PROGRAM took out my DirectX/AGP entirely (could do 2D but not 3D) is quite disconcerting, considering FS2_Open was NEVER designed to DO that...
...unless you have militant monkey viruses in your code base or something...jk
RESPONSE TO #2: Driver version is the latest ATI Omega Drivers v2.5.97a. They rule.
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NOTE: I did read somewhere I believe on the glowpoint thread that the Perseus HTL model has some sort of "Triangle of Death" or something like that, perhaps the Perseus is at fault and not the game.
My issue occurred under these graphical-related specifications:
Video Card: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB DDR with ATI Omega Drivers version v2.5.97a
AGP Fast Writes: DISABLED to improve system stability at no cost to performance
Flags:
-spec -glow -jpgtga -pcx2dds -ship_choice_3d -targetinfo -orbradar -3dwarp -ballistic_gauge -snd_preload -mpnoreturn -fps -ambient_factor 72 -allslev -fov 0.75
Mission:
Just Another Day Campaign: Mission 3 (Inferno)
Screen Resolution/Mode:
1280x1024x32, OpenGL
Fly with the Perseus model:
GTF Perseus Glowpointed from the Little Things Bugging Me Thread
Use external view, fly around and target things