[nubbles526]

I'm trying to get my hands on them Axem's model (Cretheus and Lamia, and trust me, they are beautiful from the screenies) The only flaw is the DDS. maps. They don't work. I know they worked before on my old PC. But why not anymore? In missions, it just displays surface mode.

What's going wrong?

[Snail]

Does it work in-game?

[nubbles526]

Does it work in-game?

Well the model is there but with no texture, no glow maps, no shine maps, no whatsoever. Just dull grey surface

[Topgun]

whats your graphics card?

[nubbles526]

Nvidia geforce fx 5200 256MB

[Topgun]

Nvidia geforce fx 5200 256MB

That might be it, I don't think that card can use DDS files. you can convert them to TGA though.

[Mustang19]

Interesting. I haven't been able to play WCP, BTRL, etc. simply because my card doesn't like DDS. So what, you just go into Gimp and convert them to TGA?

[Topgun]

No, gimp won't do it, I use DDS Converter 2. Google it.

[Mustang19]

Awwwriiight.... 

Thanks a ton, Topgun, I can finally use those hundreds of MB of DDSes I have on my hard drive.

[Herra Tohtori]

GIMP will do it with DDS plugin installed... it'll enable read/write capabilities for DDS textures, but the saving options are a bit limited IMHO. Obviously you only need to be able to open the DDS images and save them as TGA, so GIMP DDS plugin's limitations wouldn't matter for you. It's just a matter of convenience what program you want to use.

You can use nvDXT as well if you wish, I find it extremely handy at batch converting multiple images to or from DDS format.

[Topgun]

GIMP will do it with DDS plugin installed... it'll enable read/write capabilities for DDS textures, but the saving options are a bit limited IMHO. Obviously you only need to be able to open the DDS images and save them as TGA, so GIMP DDS plugin's limitations wouldn't matter for you. It's just a matter of convenience what program you want to use.

You can use nvDXT as well if you wish, I find it extremely handy at batch converting multiple images to or from DDS format.

GIMP sucks at batch convert.

[Wanderer]

Videocard that cant handle dds textures? How did you ever manage to play the FS in the first place as AFAIK all the textures are converted into DDS anyway?

How ancient driver are you using?

[Topgun]

How did you ever manage to play the FS in the first place as AFAIK all the textures are converted into DDS anyway?

I think that only hapens if you put on the command line to do that.

[Mustang19]

How ancient driver are you using?

It's an Intel. That says it all. 

[Mr_Maniac]

AFAIK, ALL GeForce Cards are supporting Texture-Compressing and so, they support DDS-Files.
I've played FSO for a long time with my old GeForce 3 and it worked with Texture Compression (-img2dds).
So I don't think that the card should be the problem...
What driver do you have installed? Is the Chipset Driver installed (if one is needed)?

[Mustang19]

Intel 825-something. Integrated graphics card. Don't know exactly what driver I have, but I looked on the website and it's the latest. What's with this GeForce thing? I have an intel card.

[Wanderer]

IGP issues are often different... As your graphics 'card' uses the same memory as the rest of the cpu. Make sure you have nothing memory intensive running while trying to run the game.

[Mustang19]

It's not a matter of CTDs or framerate. The game runs fine, the DDS textures simply don't show. Irfanview won't view them either.

[Topgun]

I thought only Geforce 6k and up could use dds...

EDIT: try using xnview. if you can see them with that I might be right.

[Mustang19]

Right. I'll try XnView when I get home, thanks for the TGA conversion idea regardless.