missing space models and more

Virtul · Post by **Virtul** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 2:56 pm

all space models (ships, stations, planets) are missing almost always, there is a little chance that they will appear if change cockpit view

sometimes strange transparent geometry figure appears around my ship (with purple colour)

in Zion distance wiew is kinda wierd, i set it to 1000 but it hadn't changed, why?

and why server have such a small reset time for inactive characters?

kb32a · Post by **kb32a** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:10 pm

Might be a bad video card or a really, really bad connection because i haven't ever had probs with missing planets or ships....sometimes the stargates but a simple relog fixes that.

paintballkev812 · Post by **paintballkev812** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:21 am

I have had problems on zion when I get into a crow, colors all screwed up an such. I figured maybe the sky higth (or something like that in the settings) was set lower than what the crow view was.

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:47 pm

what kind of video hardware do you have?

if its old, it might not be able to handle directx the way the game uses it. or might not be able to handle transparencies.

Virtul · Post by **Virtul** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:47 pm

zaroba wrote:what kind of video hardware do you have?

if its old, it might not be able to handle directx the way the game uses it. or might not be able to handle transparencies.

yep, its very old, GeForce2 MX400
well, i was sure that if hardware can't handle feature then it will always not display this feature, but models sometimes are present, sometimes not... or i don't understand something?

also i forgot to mention that distance veiw in other worlds works ok

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:03 am

i used to have that vid card.
i remember it not working properly in the game after about 2 years ago

the zion only thing might just have something to do with the way the graphics are set up on the world. probably useing a setting that doesen't work well with the card. it's happened to other players before.

Post by **Mit** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 8:18 pm

zion uses a different landscape culling mode, that always draws all the tiles in view, but at differing levels of detail. Changing the drawdist doesnt change what u can see, but ti changes the distance at which the landscape goes to the lower detail levels, and so should still have an effect on the fps when you lower it.
(That said, that mode isnt very efficient atm, and is due for a bit of an overhaul in the next client)

The inactivty time on zion isnt enforced yet - the description text needs updating. If you dont play for two weeks, all that happens is that u stop appearing on the top 10s list. Ill probably add an extra time for a proper reset at some point - probably something like 2 or 3 months.

Geforce2 mx, in general, is good enuf - its what i have in my main puter.

All that odd and missing stuff you're getting sounds like its most likely due to incompatabilities between directx 8 and your video card drivers. Have a hunt about for new or different ones (ideally ones that explicity say they support directx 8 ).

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:38 pm

if the inactivity timer isen't being enforced then thiers a bug

hitting F12 once shows you loose your stuff in 6 game years (6 days 8 hours), and your buildings get marked down to a fraction of thier cost. evidence of this is me and many others being able to buy stuff with loads of investment from players that haden't been on in 6 game years.