SE:V Video Card Issues

Captain Kwok · #1 September 27th, 2006, 11:35 AM

Please post with make and model of your video card if you've experienced graphics corruption or have to use Video Memory = Safe for SE:V...

Ragnarok · #2 September 27th, 2006, 02:34 PM

Just a standard built in video card for a Dell Latitude D400 lappy.

Chip Type: Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Controller
Memory Size: 64MB

Santiago · #3 September 27th, 2006, 03:25 PM

Video Adapter Intel 82852GM(E)/82855GM(E) GMCH - Integrated Graphics Controller [A-2]

Also a laptop. I haven't had a chance to install the demo on another pc.

Video safe mode for not getting graphic corruption.

display, Primary Display Driver is not selected as this causes annoying blinking issues.

"\\.\ Display 1, Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller" is specifically highlighted. With this selected there is no blinking but the trade off (at least for me)is the game screen is not completely visible as it would be under the primary display selection which causes blinks.

NTJedi · #4 September 27th, 2006, 03:43 PM

I had to use "RGB emulation" on one of my desktop PCs for the demo to work.

System Specs:
Dell OptiPlex GX150
Intel Pentium_3 1GHz
524MB of RAM
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro (graphics card has updated drivers)
DirectX_9.0c

AngleWyrm · #5 September 28th, 2006, 12:03 AM

I get this a lot:

Display driver: MSI NX 6600GT (nVidea GeForce 6600 GT)

Are there any specific hardware optimizations that will improve video quality? Like will setting any of these improve things:

Antialiasing settings
Anisotropic filtering
Force mipmaps
Conformant texture clamping
Transparency antialiasing
Triple buffering

Kamog · #6 September 28th, 2006, 01:56 AM

If I use the "safe" mode, the demo is OK. Otherwise, there is a lot of messed up graphics which look greyish with multi-colored diagonal lines streaking across it.

My video card is an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 32 MB.

se5a · #7 September 28th, 2006, 07:27 AM

how many people get venetian blinds in the log when in auto memory mode and small log pictures?

Arralen · #8 September 28th, 2006, 07:43 AM

GeForce 6600GT 128MB running 91.31 drivers on W2kSP4rollerup.
Have only "primary display" to choose from. Get messed-up display sometimes running in "auto-mode" when alt-tabbing out of the game and in again.
Otherwise graphics work fine.

NTJedi · #9 September 28th, 2006, 01:28 PM

Quote:

Kamog said:
If I use the "safe" mode, the demo is OK. Otherwise, there is a lot of messed up graphics which look greyish with multi-colored diagonal lines streaking across it.

My video card is an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 32 MB.

That's the exact same results I was getting. Changing the graphic settings to low doesn't help. Eventually I can get a normal screen if I backup to the previous screen and then return to the problematic screen... yet this takes 3 or 4 trys.
Perhaps the demo was released early to be released the same time as Dominions_3. I'm still baffled as I've never seen a publisher release it's two most popular games at the exact same time.

Even tho one game is space and one game is fantasy they're both turn based games and there are gamers such as myself which play both space and fantasy type games.

Ed Kolis · #10 September 28th, 2006, 01:30 PM

Shrapnel is not publishing SE5... Strategy First is. Shrapnel is just kind enough to keep hosting these forums for us, since they published SE4.