Weird graphical bug
HAMMER22
Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17476Members
Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17476Members
<div class="IPBDescription">and how to I wished I could take screen shots in game.</div>So I was enjoying a nice match of NS2 when it seemed the server was hit by the infamous no sound bug, everyone was squawking about their sound escaping them. HOWEVER, I was in all together quite different boat when to my surprise NS2 became reminiscent of games of a by-gone era.
Exhibit A:
[attachment=35992:NS2bugged1.jpg]
As you can see something quite terrible appears to have occurred in the above!
Perplexed, and left with no way of communicating with my fellow servettes, I decided a screen shot would be the order of the day however failing to see a screen shot command I was left with the humble print screen button. This course of action however would lead me to a second most unpleasant misfortune. Upon taking a print of the screen, I alt-tabbed (as one would in most any game) and decided to open GIMP, my graphical program of choice and saved the former mentioned screen shot. It was then the misfortune struck! I decided to return to NS2 in an attempt to collect further evidence, in case I be called a charlatan by my peers, but my attempt was flummoxed by a most unsettling error message deposited immediately onto my desktop. I quote:
<div align='center'>"The nv4_disp display driver has stopped working normally..."</div>
The message then continued to prompt me to save and reboot my work station.
And so I was left with no choice, I obliged the will of the machine and now you find me here before you all with this story to tell. I only so hope that indeed something good can come of this most terrible event.
Thank you.
Exhibit A:
[attachment=35992:NS2bugged1.jpg]
As you can see something quite terrible appears to have occurred in the above!
Perplexed, and left with no way of communicating with my fellow servettes, I decided a screen shot would be the order of the day however failing to see a screen shot command I was left with the humble print screen button. This course of action however would lead me to a second most unpleasant misfortune. Upon taking a print of the screen, I alt-tabbed (as one would in most any game) and decided to open GIMP, my graphical program of choice and saved the former mentioned screen shot. It was then the misfortune struck! I decided to return to NS2 in an attempt to collect further evidence, in case I be called a charlatan by my peers, but my attempt was flummoxed by a most unsettling error message deposited immediately onto my desktop. I quote:
<div align='center'>"The nv4_disp display driver has stopped working normally..."</div>
The message then continued to prompt me to save and reboot my work station.
And so I was left with no choice, I obliged the will of the machine and now you find me here before you all with this story to tell. I only so hope that indeed something good can come of this most terrible event.
Thank you.
Comments
Also, "<a href="http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=16143" target="_blank">nv4_disp display driver</a>" is related to your nVIDIA graphics card. Are your drivers up to date?
Papayas - Less of the pointless posts please.
Seriously, man? When something goes wrong with MY pc, I ###### bricks. Perfectly reasonable, but I don't know what's up with his archaic English.
Can you post some machine specs? Also... update graphics drivers and make sure your graphics card temperatures are ok mid game. Anything below 90 can be said to be OK for the most part.
If not that, it could also be the fact that your graphics card RAM is overheating, usually strange colors like taht on screen indicate GFX card RAM failure.
Also, "nv4_disp display driver" is related to your nVIDIA graphics card. Are your drivers up to date?
Papayas - Less of the pointless posts please.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The most recent Steam update has included this feature. You don't have participate in the beta just to try it anymore.
<i>edit: Can't make my screens public unfortunately for Steam users. I worked around it for Steam by taking Half-Life screens and editing the local file before uploading it to Cloud.
<a href="http://steamcommunity.com/id/kray_jk/screenshots/" target="_blank">http://steamcommunity.com/id/kray_jk/screenshots/</a></i>
Glad you posted a screenshot at least. What series VGA card are you running? I have heard and seen posts of people with AMD and nVidia having issues with textures not showing or being transparent, artifacts showing, lighting not working, etc. I've seen a lot of posts with people having issues with the new nVidia 400 series (GTX, not the MX, haha).
<a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/unknownworlds/topics/see_through_textures" target="_blank">http://getsatisfaction.com/unknownworlds/t...hrough_textures</a>
This is an example of an AMD issue I've heard that can be solved by tweaking some settings for the card. AA in this case. I thought it may be relevant as you also seem to be having transparent textures. You may want to try diabling any extra technologies the card may be forcing your game to use -- most driver software has a "performace" setting you can enable.
Browse <a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/unknownworlds" target="_blank">http://getsatisfaction.com/unknownworlds</a> to find issues like yours and to post bugs you come across on that website.