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...

Re: SE:V Video Card Issues
 

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

Re: SE:V Video Card Issues
 

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.

Re: SE:V Video Card Issues
 

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

Re: SE:V Video Card Issues
 

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

Re: SE:V Video Card Issues
 

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.

Re: SE:V Video Card Issues
 

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

Re: SE:V Video Card Issues
 

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.

Re: SE:V Video Card Issues
 

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.

Re: SE:V Video Card Issues
 

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