Rage and Pete's Plugins 1.69&1.70

Cauldrath · March 15th, 2003

I'm not sure if it is something wrong with my graphics card in particular or the new autodetection for palettized texture windows in 1.69 and 1.70, but I am getting similar graphical glitches to the ones I got when I turned on the Faster Palettized Texture Windows option in older versions. I have a Rage Mobility M1, which I believe is a laptop's equivalent to a Rage Pro, and in the D3D plugin the menus in FFT get severely jumbled to the point where it can mess up the rest of the screen. In DX6 D3D the menus that glitch are just transparent instead, though they shouldn't be. In OpenGL there is no problem with menus.

Is there a way to manually override the autodetection and turn off the palettized textures without just going back to an earlier version?

**Shadow Lady** · March 15th, 2003

send a mail to Pete, he will like to get ur infos on this, and he could like to help anyway ^^

**Pete Bernert** · March 16th, 2003

damn, I really hoped that nowadays gfx card drivers were finally fixed (the only reason I had for the "palettized tex" option were driver bugs, like the one you are seeing, in the past).

ok, try the following:

1. check out, if some newer gfx drivers are available for your laptop (be aware that usually the standard ATI drivers cannot be installed on laptops... there are some workarounds for that in various ATI forums, though), and install them. With luck the issues are gone.

2. If newer drivers are showing the same bug (or if there are no newer drivers at all), drop me a mail, and I'll make a special game fix for the D3D plugins.

Badaro · March 16th, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by Pete Bernert
1. check out, if some newer gfx drivers are available for your laptop (be aware that usually the standard ATI drivers cannot be installed on laptops... there are some workarounds for that in various ATI forums, though), and install them. With luck the issues are gone.

Omega's Drivers are based on the official Catalysts, with only some tweaked settings, but they support the Mobility Radeons:

http://www.omegacorner.com/

The current release is based on the Catalyst 3.1, a Catalyst 3.2-based version should be released soon.

[]s Badaro

Rebel_X · March 16th, 2003

I have A Rage Pro Card, and It does show me what you said. when I turn Faster palettized textures, even my card support that! I have i.e: FF8 PC, and the Configuration shows that The GFX support 8x8 pallattized Textures, after Upgrading the Drivers, Fixed that problems, but there is NO MORE ATI COMPAITABLE OPENGL in my System any more! very sad! since the earlier versions of the driver support OpenGl very well, Quake ]|[ runs fine with OGL extensions!!

Lot of talk, I dont know what I am typing!!

March 15th, 2003	#1 (permalink)
Cauldrath Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 1	Rage and Pete's Plugins 1.69&1.70 I'm not sure if it is something wrong with my graphics card in particular or the new autodetection for palettized texture windows in 1.69 and 1.70, but I am getting similar graphical glitches to the ones I got when I turned on the Faster Palettized Texture Windows option in older versions. I have a Rage Mobility M1, which I believe is a laptop's equivalent to a Rage Pro, and in the D3D plugin the menus in FFT get severely jumbled to the point where it can mess up the rest of the screen. In DX6 D3D the menus that glitch are just transparent instead, though they shouldn't be. In OpenGL there is no problem with menus. Is there a way to manually override the autodetection and turn off the palettized textures without just going back to an earlier version?

March 15th, 2003	#2 (permalink)
Shadow Lady Advanced Newbie Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Bogotá... not that it matters... Posts: 4,941	send a mail to Pete, he will like to get ur infos on this, and he could like to help anyway ^^ __________________ Main Rig: Pentium Dual-Core E2160 @ 2.5GHz -- 7600GT @ 650/800MHz -- 2GB DDR2-667 4-4-4-12 -- Windows XP Pro SP3 Collecting dust: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ -- ATI Radeon 9500 Pro -- SB Live 5.1 Digital -- 2.5GB DDR 2-2-2-5 Ram -- Windows 2003 server r2 SP1

March 16th, 2003	#5 (permalink)
Rebel_X Smart Star Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Chicago, Oak Lawn Posts: 860	I have A Rage Pro Card, and It does show me what you said. when I turn Faster palettized textures, even my card support that! I have i.e: FF8 PC, and the Configuration shows that The GFX support 8x8 pallattized Textures, after Upgrading the Drivers, Fixed that problems, but there is NO MORE ATI COMPAITABLE OPENGL in my System any more! very sad! since the earlier versions of the driver support OpenGl very well, Quake ]\|[ runs fine with OGL extensions!! Lot of talk, I dont know what I am typing!! __________________ "Set sail to sea , But pulled off course By the light of golden treasure. How could he know This new dawn's light. Would change his life forever? How can I be lost, If I've got nowhere to go? Search for seas of gold. How come it's got so cold? How can I be lost? In remembrance I relive.. So how can I blame you When it's me I can't forgive?" - Metallica The Unforgiven ]\|[ Last edited by Rebel_X; March 16th, 2003 at 23:57.

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March 16th, 2003	#3 (permalink)
Pete Bernert FREAK Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Germany Posts: 874	damn, I really hoped that nowadays gfx card drivers were finally fixed (the only reason I had for the "palettized tex" option were driver bugs, like the one you are seeing, in the past). ok, try the following: 1. check out, if some newer gfx drivers are available for your laptop (be aware that usually the standard ATI drivers cannot be installed on laptops... there are some workarounds for that in various ATI forums, though), and install them. With luck the issues are gone. 2. If newer drivers are showing the same bug (or if there are no newer drivers at all), drop me a mail, and I'll make a special game fix for the D3D plugins.