Strange display bug
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Join Date: 2003-11-11 Member: 22511Members
Join Date: 2003-11-11 Member: 22511Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Hmm!</div>Alright so I threw NS back on my comp for once (could still be fun I thought!) and what do my eyes have to witness? Strange Behaviour of the graphicz!
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It's basically some strange layer of pixels OVER my game, pressing ESCAPE (getting to the menu) clears the screen but they come back when I get back into the actual game. They won't go away even though I told them to.
I even managed to fix the bug with a little workaround - Starting Half-Life (The classic/vanilla/pure one) PRIOR to starting NS will fix the bug, all these black pixels are gone! I already reinstalled NS, any way around this except the usual reinstall HL or that workaround of mine?
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It's basically some strange layer of pixels OVER my game, pressing ESCAPE (getting to the menu) clears the screen but they come back when I get back into the actual game. They won't go away even though I told them to.
I even managed to fix the bug with a little workaround - Starting Half-Life (The classic/vanilla/pure one) PRIOR to starting NS will fix the bug, all these black pixels are gone! I already reinstalled NS, any way around this except the usual reinstall HL or that workaround of mine?
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Meh.
What are your Sys specs? and more importantly, have you tried switching between D3D and OGL for graphics modes in NS?
I didn't try changing to d3d though, but a clannie of mine suggested that my NS opengl files are corrupt (is there such a thing? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />)
My sys is AMD CPU and ATI graphics - strange thing is that I didn't change a thing with my NS setup since the old days where everything was working fine. And it doesn't seem like the graphics card is defect cause I don't think I'd be able to play properly if it was.
very strange.
honestly, I would say reinstalls are in order.
You can probably not bother with fiddling with D3D/OGL (GoldSrc doesn't play well with D3D).
Maybe it's the steam messenger mucking up? Did you try shutting it off?