Help! Just Came Back To DAoC With New Computer, But Game Is Being Weird!

[Glittery_Princess]

Hi all!

Ive just decided to come back to DAoC after giving up for a while and now i cant get the game to load up properly!

I have no clue when it comes to computers so bear with me....

I got a new computer which has:

Pentium 4
3.2 GHz Processor
512 MB Ram
ATI Radeon 9200

(I know this cos i read it off the box! Typical woman here...)

So anyway, the game is loading up fine - ive made my character, but when i load it into the game straight away all the walls and floor goes see-through - i can still see all the other NPC's and other characters floating about, but when i move it blurs them all. I cannot see any of the boxes on the screen at all but i can read the writing fine when people cast spells etc.

The options menu at the start up screen is see-through too, and it flickers like mad so i cant read anything.

Anyone able to help me? I dont know if i need to change any of the settings on the gfx card or anything - its all at the default.

Any help would be great cos im dying to get back into the game again!

Thanks!

 

[limpit]

tried installing the latest version of DirectX (search on google), and the latest catalyst drivers (again, google) for ya radeon ?

that might fix ya problems... i'll find ya links for the drivers etc if you really can't find em but atm i'm too drunk... saturday night and all that

 

[Glittery_Princess]

tried installing the latest version of DirectX (search on google), and the latest catalyst drivers (again, google) for ya radeon ?

that might fix ya problems... i'll find ya links for the drivers etc if you really can't find em but atm i'm too drunk... saturday night and all that

Sorry im really dense when it comes to computers - what are catalyst drivers? The computer is brand new and the radeon came with it installed and ready to go so i didnt think id need to download any drivers etc for it. It could be the direct x tho as i downloaded it today so it could possibly have mucked up! I'll go try that now!

This is driving me mad - i want to play!!

 

[Glittery_Princess]

Okies - ive installed DirectX again (The new one) and i ran a complete file check - but nothing has changed.

I managed to put it into windows mode (even with the flickering of the options menu!) but it made no difference.

I noticed this time that the second in load into game, the game looks perfect, but then everything just sort of fades. Also, i moved about a little, and i seem to leave a "trail" behind me which fades away - im able to move perfect with no lag - just this weird graphic trail thingy (Hope that makes sense!)

What setting should i have on my graphics card? I havent changed any since i got it as i dont know what to change - should i turn any bits up, turn any bits off etc? Maybe this could be the problem?

 

[Straef]

Directx 9.0c here ~~
I think installing that should fine, if your pc came with latest video drivers etc installed... Had some weird bugs before, usually caused by having an old version of directx.

 

[Glittery_Princess]

Installed it - it didnt change anything...

Think im gonna cry!

I didnt wanna be messing around with the drivers, esp the graphics card ones, since i really dont know what im doing

 

[Derric]

Here you can find catalyst drivers for Radeon anyways. 0o

http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

 

[limpit]

aye, you need to make sure that your radeon drivers are up to date (they also known as catalyst drivers, or cats), and that *should* fix your problem as I very much doubt that your new pc will have up-to-date graphic drivers on it ^^

i'd imagine with a pc like that you could run it in fullscreen mode with the highest settings (also know as best visual quality in the options menu), with a high resolution with very little graphics slowdown/lag...

I have a very similar set up (2.4 celeron, radeon 9800 pro, gig of ram) and mine is fine, but only after I installed the latest cats...

(i've tried to explain things the best i can, i don't mean to sound patronising )

 

[Chimaira]

Perhaps you got standard Win Xp drivers for your Radeon card.
Could be the issue

I got 9700pro Radeon and without any of the newer versions daocs fucks up.

Still radeon is kinda bad on Daoc. Like Rectangular shit on trees in Aerus City x<

 

[Glittery_Princess]

aye, you need to make sure that your radeon drivers are up to date (they also known as catalyst drivers, or cats), and that *should* fix your problem as I very much doubt that your new pc will have up-to-date graphic drivers on it ^^

i'd imagine with a pc like that you could run it in fullscreen mode with the highest settings (also know as best visual quality in the options menu), with a high resolution with very little graphics slowdown/lag...

I have a very similar set up (2.4 celeron, radeon 9800 pro, gig of ram) and mine is fine, but only after I installed the latest cats...

(i've tried to explain things the best i can, i don't mean to sound patronising )

You were right all along! It was the driver thingy!

Its great to be back :-D Thanks for you're help all! Thought i was gonna go mad! :-D

 

[Gamah]

Perhaps you got standard Win Xp drivers for your Radeon card.
Could be the issue

I got 9700pro Radeon and without any of the newer versions daocs fucks up.

Still radeon is kinda bad on Daoc. Like Rectangular shit on trees in Aerus City x<

Artifacts (And no grind needed for these :x) Could be due to faulty memory on the card :/

 

[Chimaira]

Artifacts (And no grind needed for these :x) Could be due to faulty memory on the card :/

I dont udnerstand? xE

Its nothing bad with just my card.
all 9700 users in Aerus City having big rectangular shit over trees x<

 

[Straef]

Entire ml9 dungeon looks like shit on my pc, if there's a tree in front of my camera I can't see the people thru it, or leaves -.-
And I use 9600xt.. x<

 

[unforgiving]

9800 pro has no problems whatsoever, kinda thought they where much alike but just shows how much i know about graphic cards :touch:

 

[zRaZeRz]

If some other have fix your comp and you dunno if you have a new or old driver try to instal the driver one cd the oldest drives normal run best one some old grafik cards. I did instal the newst to my then game startet t bug. When i reinstalet the old evri thing was perfect.

 

[Afran]

Are You Related To Atilas(Sp)?

 

[Straef]

Are You Related To Atilas(Sp)?

She doesn't seem to use quite as many caps, so guess not

 

[toxii]

fuck me zrazerz i understood the whole post u did !

 

[zRaZeRz]

fuck me zrazerz i understood the whole post u did !

Eeer what do you mean? its that a kompliment or the other?

 

[Straef]

Eeer what do you mean? its that a kompliment or the other?

Coming from toxii, what do you think ^^

 

[Soha]

i read it toxii want some

 

[Luperyn]

Have you tried installing newest chip-set drivers stuffies.

 

[Huntingtons]

Entire ml9 dungeon looks like shit on my pc, if there's a tree in front of my camera I can't see the people thru it, or leaves -.-
And I use 9600xt.. x<

haha xD

 

[Ogen]

Well the ml9 dungeon is kinda tricky yes... I got these squares around the trees there aswell.. all drivers updated etc.. 3.0ghz HT, 1g ram and radeon 9800pro..

So its not the memory either, after all

J00 Ardd Skov says you are thinking about comming back to us When you get inet! gogo !

 

[Huntingtons]

J00 Ardd Skov says you are thinking about comming back to us When you get inet! gogo !

yesh i am ;-D or might do my cleric on pryd instead 35 atm 8(