Video card

[Piggus]

When I go into Vice city some of the textures on the road and buildings look dull or they just dissapear completly. I dont have any problems with fps but the textures are especially bad when I play MTA.

My video card is a 128mb nVidia GeForce MX 440se with the latest driver. Could it be a problem with RAM? I only have 256mb.

Also, if I do get another video card should I get a 256mb fx 5200 or a 256mb Ati Radeon 9200? Thanks :D

[Zero]

I have the GeForce 4 and mine is fine, i think there is a patch to help this problem somewhere. I have herd people talk about it, i just cant remember the name of it.

[Colonel V]

what about your graphics card? that deals with textures as well

[.:Mouldy Punk:.]

I have exactly the same problem as you. So it can't be anything wrong with our graphics cards :confused: I always thought its because I only have a crappy Nvidea TNT 2, 32 meg card but you have a good card so god knows whats wrong with it

Is the patch you are on about the upgrade from version 1.0 to 1.1 ZERO?

[Colonel V]

set the draw distance to full and use the draw distance editor. it loads textures faster (sometimes on MTA textures dont load for me as well)

[.:Mouldy Punk:.]

Whats the draw distance editor? I tryed the patch I found that is supposed to fix graphics coruption on sum graphics cards but it wont install :mad: it said sumthin about it couldnt tell what version my game was :confused:

[Guitar Slinger™]

You need to go into display option's and turn the frame limiter ON should solve the problem :)

[Colonel V]

@guitar slinger: Thats not usually the solution (it changed NOTHING for me).

@mouldy punk: if you have a no CD patch, it changes the game file. use a clean version of gta-vc.exe

[Guitar Slinger™]

hmmmmm, worked for me i had the same problem switched frame limiter on and it then worked fine, and i'm running a G-Force 4....

[Colonel V]

well lets see if it worked for him :D

[Piggus]

Cool thanks for all the ideas! I wont be able to get on that computer for a couple of days but I'l definantly try these when I get the chance.

But in the mean time, what new video card should I get?

[Colonel V]

anything which costs at least £100 or $150

[xan]

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[.:Mouldy Punk:.]

The frame limiter thingy made no difference wot so ever =(

I found the Draw Distance editor and it didnt make much difference
Sum things arnt that dull half-loaded sorta thing but there is stil alot of stuf that doesnt load it actualy made it worse becos it is still not loading all the textures but im loosing the fps as if it was loading all the textures :confused:

I really need a new graphics card but I only have £50 wots the best 1 I can get 4 the money?? I dnt even know what to look for I just go 4 things with Big numbers :D Would like a 128 meg card load everything??

[Colonel V]

umm...im not good with cheap cards...but flog you old one, and use the combined cash to buy the new one.

[.:Mouldy Punk:.]

What one would you recomend?? lol Because I have know idea whats what

I dont really know if I would want to blow 100 quid on a graphics card when its just going to go out of date again soon

My TNT 2 32megs was top of the range when I got it and now its crap

[Piggus]

Thats what I hate about computers is you have to update them all the time. Go to www.tigerdirect.com. The 256mb cards that im debating over are only $100 there.

[Colonel V]

hey piggus isn't that advertising? mouldy; are you working in £? (i never heard americans call dollars 'quid')

[Piggus]

I hope thats not advertising. I was just showing Mouldy Punk.

[.:Mouldy Punk:.]

thanx piggus do they deliver to the uk? and yeh colonel i am from uk (£) lol dont americans call dollers bucks or summin :S lol

[Piggus]

Theres a link at the bottom of the page that says "UK costomers click here" but it takes you to some strange site so I dont know if you will find what your looking for.

[.:Mouldy Punk:.]

Thanx that "strange" site is alrite it has stuff quite cheap

[Piggus]

Oh man screw that 5900xt im getting the new 6800! go to www.nvidia.com and check that fella out!

[DIKFER!]

The video card may not be causing these problems. See if the hardware acceleration is set to full in the display properties.

[Piggus]

It is. Unfortuantely my PC can only run on 4x AGP so I cant get the full bennifits from thae card until I get a new computer or motherboard.
But the 6800 will have an incredible effect on performance compared to the one I have right now.

[jlw]

Originally posted by Piggus
When I go into Vice city some of the textures on the road and buildings look dull or they just dissapear completly. I dont have any problems with fps but the textures are especially bad when I play MTA.

My video card is a 128mb nVidia GeForce MX 440se with the latest driver. Could it be a problem with RAM? I only have 256mb.

Also, if I do get another video card should I get a 256mb fx 5200 or a 256mb Ati Radeon 9200? Thanks :D


ok well i have 1200 mghz intel celeron prossesr 256 mgs of ram 64 mb nividia geforce 4 mx440t and every thing runs great better than ps2 or xbox graphics and you should get the 5200

[jlw]

Originally posted by Piggus
Oh man screw that 5900xt im getting the new 6800! go to www.nvidia.com and check that fella out!

umm thats the 5600 and theres not much differnce beetween the 6800 and the 5600 other than price chk it do your homework get a side bus graphics card its an addon to your video card you use i dont know the name of it my buddy has it we havnt found a game that even pushes the two cards together so all together you wont have to update for at least the next 5 years and youll be able to play most anything beetween now and then

[Piggus]

Accually I was concidering a 5900xt made by XFX for $200. The 6800 uses a new pixel shader system and five times the shadow capabilities of the 5900. I mostly want to take advantage of this for Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 and I want to try Far Cry as well. The 6800 also has 12 rendering pipelines and even the RADEON 9800xt only has 8. But I cirtainly will check out the addon that your talking about. If you check out the Nvidia confrence video for the 6800 you will see some really amazing lighting and pixel shading effects.