[Antares]

Used the o-fficial 3.6 installer with all the various bells and whistles.  Decided to play through the main campaign and bug-hunt.

No problems during the first training mission.  At the end of the second, when jumping out, my ship didn't vanish into the warp portal--the model simply passed right through it, until the warp closed and I went to debriefing.

I know someone else reported this problem fairly recently, but after bonking around the search for about fifteen minutes, I couldn't find the right thread.

What puzzles me is that this didn't happen during the first mission, and might have been nothing more than a random futzing of code.  I'll keep playing and see if it should pop up again.

[ARothers]

The same thing happened to me with a few other builds, I usually ignore it.

[Bobboau]

you have a geforce mx don't you?

[Deathstorm V2]

What causes this then?  My old GFMX440 used to do this, but now it's dead and my new card doesn't.  It's still a GF.

[ARothers]

I have a Geforce 4 and it foes that, the bug isn't there on later builds, I think.

[Taristin]

It's a problem with the GFX card's clipping plane ( I think that's what they said). So it's a hardware issue, not an SCP bug...

[mrduckman]

I've already opened a ticket on Mantis. Seems to be a hardware problem (or drivers, I've still to check that) But the game should render it by software if the hardware does not support it, I think.

[Trivial Psychic]

I have a GF2MX, so I'm familiar with this problem, but I should point out that not all ship models seem affected by it.  When using the Apollo from the Port for example, it disapears with no difficulties.

[mrduckman]

That's because of the glowmaps.
It doesn't happen if you don't use the -glow

[Antares]

Further research indicates that this happens on -every- mission.  I must not have been paying very close attention during that first training sortie.  Hardly a game-breaking bug, but still mildly irritating.

System specs are in my sig.

[Taristin]

GeForce MX problem.  Upgrade, or live with it... Sorry.

[mrduckman]

nah nah nah.. Not while there would be a software solution

LOL @ "Terran VolksWagen Project"

[Sticks]

Feel free to yell at nVidia for clip plane support in thier drivers. The hardware supports it, can't see why the drivers don't.

Either that or write us a software clip plane system.

[Bobboau]

if someone wants to give it a shot we actualy have a fix in mind, we just havn't got around to doing it becase it's inainely complex.
for the record this is a driver issue

[mrduckman]

yeah, I am going to try an earlier version of the Nvidia driver. The last one sucks.

So the VIA driver for the AGP

[mrduckman]

Well. just checked with NVidia v53.03 and even with the original (WinXP) driver for VIA-AGP. Glows doesn't work.
Did someone ever yelled at NVidia about this thing? Ever got an answer?

[mrduckman]

Bobboau, what do you mean by giving it a shot? try the fix?
I can do that.

Also, I've just sent an email to the manufacturer (Chaintech, don't puke over me please) about the bug. I hope I get an answer.

[WMCoolmon]

He means code in the fix, I think.