Wierd "rainbow coloured" textures in Soul Calibur!

Vejita666 · September 5th, 2004

I'm using Chankast 0.25. See the screenshots to see my problem. I've been playing that game almost every day when suddenly (starting today!) this kind of corrupt graphics came out of nowhere! I tried installing all sort of graphic drivers (Cataylst, Omega Drivers for my Radeon 9000 128 DDRAM card), motherboatd drivers ( Abit NF7 - based on Nvidia NForce2 chip), switching depth colour and resolutions. I tried EVERYTHING! Just like I have mantioned Chankast worked for me FLAWLESSLY... until today

. It seems that only 3d model textures get "rainbowed", all other 2d graphics are displayed correctly (including bios, sega logo displayed before actual game is run). Please help!!

v2rlz · September 5th, 2004

i have a friend that had the same prob and he didn't resolve it before reinstalling windows because hz thaught that his prob came from win cause i think too that when you have prob like that your windows version is surely corrupted and a reinstallation is needed i recomand you to reinstall it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bombjack · September 8th, 2004

Happens only with Chankast as it seems, so maybe a fresh install of it (delete it and install/unpack it again) maybe get rid of that.
If not maybe it's your 9000.
I noticed myself once (i have a 9600Pro EZ) about strange colour and geometry artifacts coming from overclocking then overheating card. Take a look at it (physically), check the heat, then stress it with some benchmark tools like Aquamark or Codename Creatures.
If the 9000 still runs fine, do the OS reinstall.
Good luck!

KanedA · September 8th, 2004

Lol nice rainbow

anyway i got scared when I turned chankast and there were once color textures of the background, on NFS:U totally blurred everything, first thought was that because ofoverlocking my GFX card and something has burned or so, but the reason that everything looked like that was: force low mipmap enabled

Vejita666 · September 8th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by v2rlz

i have a friend that had the same prob and he didn't resolve it before reinstalling windows because hz thaught that his prob came from win cause i think too that when you have prob like that your windows version is surely corrupted and a reinstallation is needed i recomand you to reinstall it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First I reinstalled my windows xp - it didn't help. Than I formated my HD and installed a "fresh" version of that OS -it didn't help

. Any other suggestions?? TIA!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by KanedA

Lol nice rainbow anyway i got scared when I turned chankast and there were once color textures of the background, on NFS:U totally blurred everything, first thought was that because ofoverlocking my GFX card and something has burned or so, but the reason that everything looked like that was: force low mipmap enabled

Hmm... This could help... But where can I disable that option?? I'm running on the newest Radeon Omega Drivers (I NEVER overclocked my card, so I guess that has to be low mipmap case).

KanedA · September 8th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vejita666

Hmm... This could help... But where can I disable that option?? I'm running on the newest Radeon Omega Drivers (I NEVER overclocked my card, so I guess that has to be low mipmap case).

Problem is that mine GFX Card is a nVidia one... so I don't know if there or where is that option in ATIs...

Vejita666 · September 9th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by KanedA

Problem is that mine GFX Card is a nVidia one... so I don't know if there or where is that option in ATIs...

You're right, unfortunatley "force low mipmap lvl" isn't the problem in my Radeon card

. I used Rage3d Overclocker and high mipmap lvl is on by default. I changed EVERY option in that prog and even all the presets for games and it still happens

. Maybe it is not a graphic card broblem? Any suggestions? Anyone?

Vejita666 · September 9th, 2004

HURRAY!! I resolved the issue!! Those newest drivers were causing the problem(all unoficial new drivers e.g. Omega Drivers are based on BUGGY Catalyst 4.8 drivers)!! All i needed to do was to install some oldest drivers (in my case Catalyst 4.7)! Damn U ATi!!

KanedA · September 9th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vejita666

HURRAY!! I resolved the issue!! Those newest drivers were causing the problem(all unoficial new drivers e.g. Omega Drivers are based on BUGGY Catalyst 4.8 drivers)!! All i needed to do was to install some oldest drivers (in my case Catalyst 4.7)! Damn U ATi!!

Glad you've solved your problem

Dazu · September 9th, 2004

It's cool you solve your problem. BTW it would be worth it to try different drivers, to which are the best. I'm going to do so as soon as I got time

acme420 · September 13th, 2004

fyi the latest drivers are 4.9 not 4.7 the 4.8 have been out for close to a month.

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v2rlz The pirate king! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: algiers Posts: 59	i have a friend that had the same prob and he didn't resolve it before reinstalling windows because hz thaught that his prob came from win cause i think too that when you have prob like that your windows version is surely corrupted and a reinstallation is needed i recomand you to reinstall it!!!!!!!!!!!!! __________________ like shanks says :"quand tu tires sur un pirate,ne le rates jamais,si tu le rates c'est lui qui te tueras!!!!!!!!" Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz ht -MOTHERBOARD ASUS P4C800 DELUXE -512MB DDR400 - ATI Radeon 9800pro 128MB -HD 160GB -LG CD-R/RW 52X/32X/52X -DVD-ROM 16X/48X -LG CD 52x

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KanedA PS2 PAL[v9] Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: PolanD Posts: 5,288	Lol nice rainbow anyway i got scared when I turned chankast and there were once color textures of the background, on NFS:U totally blurred everything, first thought was that because ofoverlocking my GFX card and something has burned or so, but the reason that everything looked like that was: force low mipmap enabled __________________

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Vejita666 Nagareboshi he Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Poland Posts: 108	HURRAY!! I resolved the issue!! Those newest drivers were causing the problem(all unoficial new drivers e.g. Omega Drivers are based on BUGGY Catalyst 4.8 drivers)!! All i needed to do was to install some oldest drivers (in my case Catalyst 4.7)! Damn U ATi!! __________________

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Dazu Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: London Posts: 7	It's cool you solve your problem. BTW it would be worth it to try different drivers, to which are the best. I'm going to do so as soon as I got time __________________ Win 2K Pro SP4 Barton 2500+ @ 2800+ 1GO of RAM (DDR400) 9800 pro 128 Mb SoundBlaster Live! All latest drivers possible

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September 8th, 2004	#3 (permalink)
bombjack Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Barcelona Posts: 5	Happens only with Chankast as it seems, so maybe a fresh install of it (delete it and install/unpack it again) maybe get rid of that. If not maybe it's your 9000. I noticed myself once (i have a 9600Pro EZ) about strange colour and geometry artifacts coming from overclocking then overheating card. Take a look at it (physically), check the heat, then stress it with some benchmark tools like Aquamark or Codename Creatures. If the 9000 still runs fine, do the OS reinstall. Good luck!

September 13th, 2004	#11 (permalink)
acme420 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: In your moms bedroom Posts: 3	fyi the latest drivers are 4.9 not 4.7 the 4.8 have been out for close to a month.