Graphics not complete - any suggestions

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shivan

Spaceman
I am running on an emachine with a SavageDDR video card.
My friend also has a SavageDDR card, but on a privately built machine.

We both are running windows XP and have downloaded the latest driver from the microsoft site. (emachines will only offer up the original driver)

Everything runs OK but the graphics don't look like they are supposed to. That's why my radar doesn't work, and our Nav screens show text but no graphics.
Also, in the commodity exchange, there is only text, no buttons.

Now I have a really old Compaq computer with an Intel 82810E adapter and the graphics look great on that machine. The gameplay is waaay too slow to actually play though.

Any suggestions about what we can do to get the full graphic experience?

Thanks :)
 
That same dude with the Arial Hud crash

The same guy who had it crash in the mission computer also had problems with textures being gone.
We were punked about it 'till this dude mailed us back that we should set TextureCompression to "0" instead of 1 in that vegas.config thing
 
<Sigh> Didn't work

Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried it and it doesn't work.

Any other suggestions out there?
 
I'll try that 0/1 switch tonight, but I also have those gfx problems (had 'em also in v.9 and Prelease).
So when I go to save/quit a game, the text layers *layer* over each other without the correct backgrounds so things are kind of hard to read. And if it wasn't for having a mosue with a wheel I wouldn't be able to scroll down in the Upgrades/Commodities menus because the scroll bar gfx doesn't show up either. :-/

BUT if I dock to Draymen or Paradigms and such *ships* I see the correct gfx (and the green mouse cursor whereas previously I had to hack the Hardware Mouse to True in my config).

--Diavo

Win XP SP2
1.5 Ghz Celeron Toshiba Satellite laptop
256 RAM
64 Meg GFX card
 
Changing the TextureCompression only made the loading of the game twice as long -- no gfx change. =(

--Diavo
 
I just bought a new video card - problem solved

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Changing the TextureCompression only made the loading of the game twice as long -- no gfx change. =(

--Diavo
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So last night I went out and bought a new video card. Problem solved...

While I was there I bought a nifty little joystick. Now all I need to do is learn how to actually shoot down a pirate :)
 
Like I said, I used to keep an old 386 Win 3.1 machine alive just to play Privateer the original.

The gameplay is a bit slow so I am thinking it may be the cheap generic card I bought. It only has 8MB of Video Ram. So it's back to the store this weekend to get something a bit more beefy.

Thank goodness for the afterburner or I would have been another notch on a Retro's kill tally last night :)

BTW, my friend and I both think you have all done a really superb job. Some things are missing or different, like the jump drive animation. Overall, it really plays like the original with a few enhancements. I wish I knew how to do modeling so I could say I contributed :)
 
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