Hey. Long time tech here, into a problem I can’t solve that doesn’t show up except in ET and another game MCM2 I run. Setup: XP SP1 (haven’t needed sp2 yet), P4 1.6, 512mb, ATI Radeon 8500/128mb, SBLive 5.1. History: After a year or so on what became a well loaded/used image, trying to fix another problem (video codec related, I do alot of encoding, etc) this (shown by images below) problem came up in ET (and the other game, same thing.)
Since this showed up out of the blue I did the regular stuff- reapplied SP1, Directx 9c, video drivers, etc, but couldn’t fix the problem. With no fix, was fairly confident just had some bug I couldn’t whack and a reformat/install of xp was ‘time.’ Did this, reloaded all stuff- xp/sp1, dx9c, ati video driver, etc, and now on clean install of os/ET, problem still exists. The only thing that sticks out before I reformattted that I had done before the problem that shows in ET I noticed was I re-installed windows media player 10 to try to solve a long running browser plug-in prob and a prior goofy load of wimp10. Prior to messing around with the wimp10 re-install, never had a problem, but can’t say wimp10 has anything to do with things, just a ‘last’ thing done/worked with. Anything wrong with wimp10 for ET or video ‘issues’ in known problems? :???:
Running on what’s been a good solid machine, Asus mb w/the ATI (I’ve had a good running history with Asus,) I could be blatently overlooking ‘something,’ but I’m out of options. My core os is now a good load, I tweak services and don’t have anything of a no-brainer sticking out, or things shut off that shouldn’t be, etc. Thing is/was, all was good for this past year before my problem showed up in ET, and now with a reformat/load of xp/sp1, dx9c, and all the same drivers, versions, etc, the problem still exists. ??? One thing I did do (I could have left it out) was I did install wimp10 before I loaded ET on this new format/reload to see if the wimp10 was the problem from earlier on, and usually I wouldn’t think any ‘player’ would affect a game like ET, but ms does alot under the hood of the os, etc. Well, I got lucky, new os load and the wimp10 thing?- Problem still exists. I didn’t expect any of this at all let alone a wimp10 load to cause any ‘issues’ on a clean install of it. My next only option is to reformat again, and try ET straight out before any wimp anything, etc.
Decided to post here to see if anyone might notice something in this post or by images below. Might I be onto a hdw problem? No idea. Never had a problem like this before that wasn’t solved with a reformat, etc. No other video output on this new load, and same as before- desktop, video player(s), video anything, shows any issues but only when I run ET and that other game. At this point software wise, there kinda isn’t anything I haven’t done in order, out of order- anything like this that usually would ‘fix’ something like this as a display issue. Not sure if splashdamage boards here are ok with putfile links, was one way I could get screenshots out, haven’t been around this baord for awhile. I put up 3 shots and no matter what video I change in ET (never had to before, run 32bit/24bit, bi/trilinear, -usually full tilt settings at 1024x768) can’t whack the problem.
Appreciate any replies.
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(edit: instead of images, here’s a 17sec divx file)
http://media.putfile.com/Oasis-Pan48