dragonball said:As per the title suggest, our so call mid to high end 3850 to 4870 have to use Directx 7.0 to play this game. That sucks big time! Directx 7.0 does look very dated, infact it's ugly.
But thankfully the gameplay is too good not to play hence all of us with ATI cards have to be VERY patient as I've read the problems have been around for quite sometime already.
BTW I'm using 1.003.
Problems collected from all the posts; texture problems.
Hopefully the problems would be able to be solved ASAP
ATI users unite!!!
SchutzStaffel said:Im using a brand new EAH4870X2. When using in Direct X 9, the game is in a complete shade of red. When using in Direct 7, the game glitches almost if the graphics card is about to blow up. When I reduce the detail to 60-80% the game tends to stop glitching.
Archonsod said:Given this week is a holiday for most Turks I wouldn't expect much Of course, knowing ATi half the problem is finding out what they've changed in the first place, they're somewhat reluctant to discuss the workings of their drivers most of the time.
Mind you, all you'll get from DX9 is prettier water and shiny armour. Not exactly a game changing alteration here ....
I'm not saying they aren't, the point is the game plays the exact same way. You can play the DX7 version, and once the fix is out you can switch to DX9 and continue playing. Won't do much good if the game then crashes with an invalid party script error five minutes later though ...creiner said:Graphical upgrades are always incremental. The small visual enhancements add up and for some people pretty water, shiny armor, and better lighting are important.
They don't. Mass Effect & Neverwinter Nights 2 are just two of the games which were (and in some cases still are) affected by this that I know of. Search their respective tech forums around about the time the change occurred and you'll find numerous posts by ATi users reporting graphical anomalies, crashes and similar. I'm sure there's a host of games out there which weren't affected, and I bet there's more which were. I really don't know enough about graphics coding or what ATi changed specifically to say.I notice a lot of people blaming the problem on ATI, but it can't all be their fault. If their drivers are so problematic, then why do all other games run fine on ATI cards?
Not really, and particularly not for small games developers . AMD/ATi's support is the same as most large corporations, take a ticket and wait in the queue. I doubt the problem is support though, it's not as simple as just tweaking a code value and done. The rendering engine requires rewrites, which means it requires more testing, not just to ensure the problem is fixed but also to ensure it hasn't broken anything else. This isn't the only bug that needs fixing either.They must have some kind of support infrastructure for game developers.
Starving said:Is there an ETA on when this will be fixed?
Starving said:Was this just with this version or has it affected previous ones also?