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Offline Dagolith

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ahhhh sword of the stars help
ok i'm new to video graphics, all of the 3D images (ships light platforms) are covered in a multicolored blinking shell, i don't know if thats a good enough discription, but the same thing happened to me in diablo 2... off topic, does anyone know what this is and or how to fix it? :no:
« Last Edit: January 17, 2007, 12:01:18 am by Dagolith »
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Offline Davros

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i don't know if thats a good enough discription,  

of course it is, its nearly matched by your great idea of using an acronym no one understands in your title

  

Offline Mefustae

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Sword of the Stars, if i'm not mistaken.

 

Offline Dagolith

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well, all vary use full comments, thankx but not helping, i think it might be a problem with directX. anyone who can say anything to HELP the situation, this isn't myspace, your two bits aren't nessesary.
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Offline Davros

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well you know if you actually tell people what the game is......

and ooh maybe some system specs
« Last Edit: January 16, 2007, 11:59:39 pm by Davros »

 

Offline Taristin

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Hes having graphical corruptions... could be caused by several things: Overclocking; bad drivers; overheating; memory problems...

What game is SOTS?
What kind of graphics card do you have?
What driver version, and DirectX version?
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Offline Dagolith

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Re: ahhhh sword of the stars help
Sword of the stars

i'm not sure how to find the rest

DirectX 9.0
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Offline Davros

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Re: ahhhh sword of the stars help
my computer
control panel
system
hardware
device manager
display adapters


 

Offline Dagolith

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Re: ahhhh sword of the stars help
Mobile intel[R] 945GM Express Chipset Family

theres two of these.
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Offline Davros

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Re: ahhhh sword of the stars help
try this :

get 3d analyse

http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/tools/3d_analyze/

check on the emulate pixelshades and hardware T/L options.

 

Offline Dagolith

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Re: ahhhh sword of the stars help
well, i waited a couple of months and the problem didn't fix itself. so now i have a screen-shot in hopes that someone will recognize my problem and have the answer.
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Offline Ace

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Re: ahhhh sword of the stars help
Looks like a driver issue.

I'd say it's from a lack of pixel shader support, but if it's also happening to Diablo 2 it's probably general driver issues.

Post on the Kerberos boards, one of the devs might be able to help:
http://www.kerberos-productions.com/forum/index.php
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cool, thanks
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Offline TrashMan

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Re: ahhhh sword of the stars help
That looks interesting...a 4X game...customizable ships?  :eek:

Sounds very interesting...say, jsut how customizable are they? I'm thinking of getting it, but not if you only got to chose from 3 friggin parts :doubt:
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Offline Mefustae

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Re: ahhhh sword of the stars help
That looks interesting...a 4X game...customizable ships?  :eek:

Sounds very interesting...say, jsut how customizable are they? I'm thinking of getting it, but not if you only got to chose from 3 friggin parts :doubt:
Check the wiki out for yourself: http://sots.rorschach.net/Main_Page

 

Offline TrashMan

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HMmmmmmmmm.....looks good, but I honestly don't like the human ship designs that much...I might give it a shot tough
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Offline Ace

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Re: ahhhh sword of the stars help
There's the three main ship sections, weapons, and then optionals per section (armor type, cloak/shield variants). The end result of the system is actually about as much customization as in a game like MOO2.

If you're going to get the game, be sure to also order the expansion Born of Blood as it adds a lot of good techs, trading/piracy, and a new race.
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Re: ahhhh sword of the stars help
MOO2 was prolly the beast space empire managment game ever made...so far at least.

erm....yeah....order it.. :nod:
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Offline Ace

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Re: ahhhh sword of the stars help
Well for me at least, SotS is MOO3. (I'm ignoring the atrocity, which to add insult to injury came out on my 18th birthday)

The strategic map of SotS is more like MOO1, but the combat is pretty much MOO2 in real time.
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Re: ahhhh sword of the stars help
That game looks really promising, but one thing that stops it cold is that technology can't be shared, stolen or salvaged... that's HUGE!

MOO2 will apparently always be the end-all 4X galaxy game... just for an example, when using a custom race who happened to be uncreative, I'd make 'capture fleets' with ships having as many tractor beams as possible then a number of support ships with troops to steal all the technology I could from other races' ships.  I've not seen a (space-based) 4X allow that kind of strategy since.

By golly gee whillaker george, I'm going home and firing up MOO2 in DosBox.