SE:V Video Card Issues
 

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...

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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

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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.

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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

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I get this a lot:

http://home.comcast.net/~anglewyrm/corrupt.jpg

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif
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.

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Shrapnel is not publishing SE5... Strategy First is. Shrapnel is just kind enough to keep hosting these forums for us, since they published SE4. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Okay thanks for the info !

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Is anyone playing the beta or demo with a core 2 duo and high end graphics card? Say, Radeon x1900 or Nvidea 7900 card? If so, how does the game play?

Any people with Vista playing it?

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I have a dual core AMD4000 and an X1800 card and it plays great.

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I have a AMD X2 and I had to disable one core for SE5 to work (the other core is still active, but SE5 isn't allowed to see it). Other than that, it works fine. I have Geforce 7600.

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Any idea if you have to do the same for an Intel Core 2 Duo?

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I have an Intel dual core laptop- I'll try sticking the demo on that and see how it goes.

Its the older generation, though. (Core Duo, not Core 2 Duo).

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At the moment I play the demo on a Pentium 4 3.0 ghz machine with a Radeon 9800 Pro. I have some flashing problems at times but otherwise it runs pretty well.

I might be buying a new computer with an E6600 core 2 duo and probably a BFG 7950 GT, so any info would be a great help.

I remember when I went from a Pentium II Win98, to a Pentium IV WinXP, and SEIV ran slower! Don't want that to happen again.

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Just a note- I have been trying out the demo on various pc's 2 laptops and a desktop so far. I noticed on the desktop- The screen resolution is 1024x768. I used the game setup to play at 1280x1024.

The game plays fine. Except when you minimize the game, the monitor goes back to 1024x768. Then maximize the game. 1280x1024. Everything looks ok until you open any game window. Game minimizes and resets the screen to 1024x768. Cannot escape or close the game when the game is up. I minimized it and closed it thru right click on the task bar. And get an access violation every time.

It may be the particular configuration of that pc- Don't have the general info at hand atm.

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I have a S3 Savage4 chip, DAC of S3 SDAC, 32 MB, 1280x1024 450 meg Pentium III http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif

I get one FPS on the main SEV screen, and sometimes even "0". I thought it was rounding up, http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif but I see it is rounding just normally. Pop up screens run at 5-20 FPS and when in them, the mouse moves somewhat more than the once a second the main screen gives. There is corruption on a few screens sometimes. I put it in safe mode, but there was no noticeable effect. I have also tried different settings, but so far to no avail. I did get through three screens of the tutorial last night, but I was skipping a lot of the stuff. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon45.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon45.gif[/img]

On my work laptop, it runs a lot better. I am getting 50-60 FPS pretty often. After this, I am scared to even load it on my Win95 Cirix 166+

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GeForce2Go 32MB on a Dell laptop with 1600x1200 TFT, 1GHz Pentium III.

Running on auto results in corruption with many popup dialogs but safe mode seems perfectly OK. FPS of about 7-9 regardless of detail settings (it goes up to 30-50 when showing the black screen when processing AI player turns though... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif ).

Cursor sluggishness is the main problem IMHO - the lag makes ship design unnecessarily painful.

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I run se5 on my on my 1.83Ghz Core Duo Gateway M285-E tablet and it works fine.

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I am not sure either of those even meet the minimum requirements so it is not a surprise they don't work lol.

These are the official and I think they are to low even:

Pentium 500 MHz or better class machine
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
128MB RAM
1024x768 or better screen resolution
16bit color or better color depth
500 megs hard drive space
A video card with 3D acceleration
DirectX 8.1 or higher
A sound card capable of supporting MP3 and DirectSound playback. Sound card must be DirectX 8.1 (or better) compatible.

Notice you need directx 8.1 or higher and at least a 500mhz processor. You video card only supports Directx 6 I am a bit surprised the game even starts. heh