Topic: wme and project whith gfx bug (Read 12852 times)

Drax · « **on:** May 04, 2004, 08:23:22 AM »

hi,

today I tryed to start testing my game on different systems. I started whit my new laptop. but there are mysterious gfx bugs now. I installt wme too, and even in the preview in project manager the bugs appear. gifs and pngs are repeadet half at the right side or at the bottom. teh standart fonts *green* is displayed wrong. the alwas repeat the same characters. like :"pre aiid not ailable" (who's knows what this mean

, little quiz)

in teh game ist really funny because backgrounds reapeating theleft corner on teh right, and some areas are not shown at all.

if you need more info just post.

DraX

Mnemonic · « **Reply #1 on:** May 04, 2004, 08:31:59 AM »

Try enabling the "force texture subdivision" in advanced options, or try running the game with 3D acceleration disabled.

Mnemonic · « **Reply #2 on:** May 04, 2004, 08:33:55 AM »

On the other hand, you said it was a *new* laptop. It should work fine than. What graphics chip does it use? Did you install the latest drivers?

Drax · « **Reply #3 on:** May 04, 2004, 09:56:48 AM »

it's a one day old laptop. I've not dowloaded the lates driver. I think the actual installed have to be actual.
The Chip: KN266 integrated S3 Prosavage.

I have to got to the uni now. then I try to run other projects, if the error is just in my project.

DraX

MMR · « **Reply #4 on:** May 04, 2004, 01:21:04 PM »

I've the same graphics chip in my old laptop. You should run your game in non-accelerated mode

Mnemonic · « **Reply #5 on:** May 04, 2004, 01:39:35 PM »

Anyway, if the game runs at all, it means the videocard does support 3D acceleration (more or less). WME should be able to detect maximum texture size supported and subdivide the images appropriately. I wonder why it doesn't. If you check the wme.log file, does it say something like "Maximum texture size: 123x456" ?

But non-accelerated mode should work.

Drax · « **Reply #6 on:** May 05, 2004, 06:20:03 AM »

yes,non accelerated mode works,but the mouse ist not smoth enought, it just jumps over the monitor, when im moving it. (stand still,then jump...)

i've searched for the log, but the log in the project folder is empty, and after runnig the game is already empty.

Mnemonic · « **Reply #7 on:** May 05, 2004, 06:49:50 AM »

If you are running a compiled game, you'll have to enable the debug mode explicitly.
See this thread: http://forum.dead-code.org/index.php?topic=423.0

Otherwise enable debug mode in ProjectMan.

Drax · « **Reply #8 on:** May 05, 2004, 12:43:22 PM »

no, im running in project man. but the project is not in the projects folder of wme dev. very strange, I thougt wme uses the log files in the projects folder. I try to copy it in this folder. maybe it writes the logs then.

Mnemonic · « **Reply #9 on:** May 05, 2004, 01:13:16 PM »

The project doesn't have to be in the "projects" folder, the location doesn't matter. The log file is always generated in the same folder where your project (.wpr) file is located (providing the debug mode is enabled).

DREAMWEB · « **Reply #10 on:** May 06, 2004, 03:20:34 PM »

I had the same problem testing Sofia's Debt in two computers that have an S3 grafic Card; those computers are quite new, I even tes Broken Sord 3 there without any problem.
The bug is the same, the grasics are moved and then the game crashes

Those problems steel continue in the non-accelerated mode.
I tested the Fred's Demo and had the same bug again.
It is bad because that S3 card is in many comuters

Mnemonic · « **Reply #11 on:** May 07, 2004, 07:25:51 AM »

Well, I don't have any S3 card I could test it on, and I don't have enough information..

Nihil · « **Reply #12 on:** May 07, 2004, 08:34:59 AM »

A teammate of me had Problems with the S3 chip in his notebook in several games, but I don't know what chip exactly he had.

If I remember correctly his S3-Chip didn't support textures with non-square dimensions, and he had a problem with a wrong AGB-Speed setting in the BIOS. Also some games only ran properly in window-mode. (and some chips seem to have problems with DirectX 8.1)

Did you try to run dxdiag?

Mnemonic · « **Reply #13 on:** May 07, 2004, 09:27:52 AM »

I'd really like to see that log file, namely the "maximum texture size" and "texture format" lines. DraX?

And Nihil is right, the DXDiag log would also be helpful.

Nihil · « **Reply #14 on:** May 07, 2004, 10:04:43 AM »

I just did a little Google-research, it seems that the S3-chips cause errors in a lot of different games and are therefore not officially supported by many publishers.

But as it is an onboard-chip - maybe in some cases not only actual drivers for S3 are necessary but also updates for BIOS/drivers of the boards themselves?

Drax · « **Reply #15 on:** May 08, 2004, 10:46:43 AM »

sorry, had a lot to do the last days. here the log file:

Quote

11:38: ********** DEBUG LOG OPENED 08-05-2004 (Release Build) *****************
11:38: DEAD:CODE Games Framework ver 1.02 (Build 43), Compiled on Apr 26 2004, 19:55:00
11:38: Platform: Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
11:38: DirectX version: 8.1b
11:38: BugslayerUtil.dll is bound
11:38:
11:38: Scanning packages...
11:38: Registered 0 files in 0 package(s)
11:38: Initializing scripting engine...
11:38: Script compiler 'dcscomp.dll' bound successfuly
11:38: Loading string table...
11:38: 23 strings loaded
11:38: First run / crash recovery
11:38: Enumerating Direct3D devices...
11:38: Enumerating DirectDraw devices...
11:38: Enumerating DirectSound devices...
11:38: Available video devices:
11:38: S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR (accelerated)
11:38: S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR (non accelerated)
11:38: Available audio devices:
11:38: Prim

Mnemonic · « **Reply #16 on:** May 08, 2004, 11:33:23 AM »

Did you try enabling the "Force texture subdivision" option?

Drax · « **Reply #17 on:** May 08, 2004, 09:19:22 PM »

yes. i've tryed all possibility. in nearly all combinations. it's always the same problem in '3d mode'. if 3d acceleration is offthe gfx are ok but the mouse is moving whith a 'latenz'(=only german?) whith some seconds delay.

the project manager shos this gfx bug. it is alwaysin 3d acc. modee or why this problems in PM too?

(off topic *g*)=
I changed developing now back to my Desktop PC. We already finisched the demo. Now im waiting for lakeside creating the homepage and i'm waiting for money *g* to buy a condensator microfon for speech recording.

but hten we release.

Jerrot · « **Reply #18 on:** May 09, 2004, 06:30:08 PM »

In general, I only know two "tips" about most S3 issues:

1) Upgrade video driver from http://www.s3graphics.com/Drivers.html

If this doesn't help, it comes to 2:

2) Upgrade video card.

I'm serious.

Especially when it comes to Microsoft games, you will find this great "hint" in some documentations.
I see the problem with a notebook though...

Drax · « **Reply #19 on:** May 10, 2004, 07:10:52 PM »

Tried the latest S3 Drivers. Not better yet. It seem to be hopeless...

@Jerrot: thanks for the infos and gratulation for your 400th post. (Sometimes I will be there too.)

At the moment i'm glad to be no newbie anymore :-)

Igorrr · « **Reply #20 on:** May 10, 2004, 07:46:53 PM »

I use a laptop, too and have a ATI RADEON mobility 7500 graphics card.
I don't know if XP doesn't like mobile 3D cards, because even with the latest drivers 3D acceleration is buggy.
On my system the programs run extremely fast at first and at certain points slow extremely down. Found no solution for this.
But using Windows 98 no problems at all. Everything works fine. Too bad that I usually don't like 98. So I currently have both OS installed.

Don't know what it is but I heard from many laptop users that there are problems with their 3D hardware.

@Jerrot: Congrats!!! Will take some time until I reach that level ;-)

Nihil · « **Reply #21 on:** May 10, 2004, 07:59:23 PM »

Have you tried Win98-compatibility-mode under XP?
This often solves problems like you mentioned.

Does the slow-down always happen at the same point or at different situations?

@Jerrot, the third: Spammer

Jerrot · « **Reply #22 on:** May 10, 2004, 10:56:20 PM »

Hiya,

Quote from: DraX on May 10, 2004, 07:10:52 PM

Tried the latest S3 Drivers. Not better yet. It seem to be hopeless...

Savage sucks. I only own a veeeery old laptop with about 90 MHz... anyway WME runs fine there.

Igorrr · « **Reply #23 on:** May 11, 2004, 02:25:32 AM »

I never thought about trying recent games like UT 2003 in Win98 compatability mode. But it is worth a try.
Sorry but it always happens at different places and I have the suspicion that it can be related to slight overheating.
I also tried other things like turning off Sound Acceleration. It actually helped, but not much.

Nihil · « **Reply #24 on:** May 11, 2004, 10:13:18 AM »

Quote from: Jerrot on May 10, 2004, 10:56:20 PM

Actually I'm more a tester and therefore the game developer newbie. Although I've been playing around with WME for a while already, I never used it to create my own games yet. My first game is still waiting for more time to continue my first scene graphics.

That sounds quite familiar to me

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