SE:V Video Card Issues

[Captain Kwok]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[Parasite]

I have a S3 Savage4 chip, DAC of S3 SDAC, 32 MB, 1280x1024 450 meg Pentium III

I get one FPS on the main SEV screen, and sometimes even "0". I thought it was rounding up, 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+

[AstralWanderer]

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... ).

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

[Combat Wombat]

Parasite said:
I have a S3 Savage4 chip, DAC of S3 SDAC, 32 MB, 1280x1024 450 meg Pentium III

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+

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