Strange graphics problem.

([LZ]HACKcAt) #1

Hi everyone!
Few days ago I reinstalled my Windows 7. Installed Wolfenstein ET again. Before it I had no problems with the game, but after my reinstaliations I get one strange problem. All weapon surfaces are “mirrored” and ground surface is fully black! I saw this problem before only one time, when my friend installed ET on his eMachines notebook. But we did not know what to do and I do not know now. I have ATI Mobility Radeon 4500 card. Drivers (ATI Catalyst) were installed without any problems.
So I ask all you to help me and to offer some solution. Thanks.
P.S. I previously want to excuse for probably language problems 'cause I’m from Russia and English is not my mother-tongue. :slight_smile:

(Justice) #2

As I can remember, I’ve had some serious problems with a Radeon card either.

Might try lowering your settings, especially your resolution.
I have no idea how you could fix it though…

(stealth6) #3

Most likely a problem with your graphics card drivers / settings in catalyst.
Normally I’d say update your drivers, but if you’ve already done that, then I don’t know what you should do.

([LZ]HACKcAt) #4

Thank you all.
Lowering settings and resolution gave no results. My notebook is enough powerful for ET so I suppose that this measures could not help. And they did not =)

Normally I’d say update your drivers

I updaited drivers again to the last version but this gave no results. You also told about settings in Catalyst Center. But what settings do you mean? I can just change some settings like gamma and colors, resolution and performance. But it does not help in any way.
The most strange in the problem is that in Windows 7 which was before I had no problems with ET. I had the same Catalyst driver, the same Radeon card, all the same but there were no problems.

As I can remember, I’ve had some serious problems with a Radeon card either.

Ok, but could you please explain me how did you fix this problems? If I understood you right, this problems were with ET or they were more global?

(Justice) #5

Sorry, I can’t recall the details. But I do know it got so ****ed up after a while not even my desktop could be displayed properly. So I bought a new one.

I only remember using very low quality settings :confused:

(Nail) #6

try disable catalyst ai

([LZ]HACKcAt) #7

try disable catalyst ai

Thanks for advice but could you please explain how?
I may be mistaken but I don’t remember if ATI Catalyst Control Center has any AI…

([LZ]HACKcAt) #8

try disable catalyst ai

All in all, I’ve found this AI in Catalyst center, but AI’s disabling did not help. Enabling and disabling other parametres did not help too. I really have no ideas about solutions of this problem.

(XaNaX) #9

i have nvidia but i had similar problems after installing 7 it was solved by going in nvidia and turning either ON or OFF threading on something i forget but that solved it. maybe ati has something similar