Crazy Taxi 3 graphics problem

Norbi · May 24th, 2005

I have a problem in Crazy Taxi 3 being really annoying. While driving it's ok but when i crash into other cars, objects like other cars, lamp posts and bulidings do white for some time before doing back to normal. Anyone knows how to fix this?

**Kane** · May 24th, 2005

What graphics card you got?

Norbi · May 24th, 2005

Sorry, forgot to attach all those details. I got a ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP 64Mb. The game runs smoothly but it's just game objects turn white randomly. Below a screenshot how it looks.

**Kane** · May 24th, 2005

I'm guessing this is due to the lack of Pixel shader support. IIRC CT3 asks for DX8 class shaders

Norbi · May 24th, 2005

Damn. There is nothing what can be done to make calm it down a bit?

**cooliscool** · May 24th, 2005

Well.. not only the lack of PS support, but it looks like there are some driver bugs there as well, seeing how it looked much better than that on my MX 440. Try to get the latest Omega drivers; the inf is modified to work with Radeon IGP chips. There are always going to be errors on that chip, but new drivers should fix most of your issues.

Samor · May 24th, 2005

I'm amazed you got it working with a radeon 7000 at all....

Norbi · May 25th, 2005

Well, running the game isn't hard. Runs real good but the gliches are too annoying. The wierd thing is when i drive slowly or fast without crashing into ANYTHING nothing happens. The grapfics stay good. As soon as the taxi touches anything like a lampoost or a other car, 80% of objects visable around go white.

Samor · May 25th, 2005

That sounds like a lack of texture memory.
Can you increase the video card memory (many laptops allow to swap system memory with video memory in the bios)?

(or try lowering the texture quality or the games' resolution)

Norbi · May 25th, 2005

I normally run it in 640x480 but this has the white gaps. About the increasing card memory, i dont as i turn the laptop on, it shows some Toshiba screen and starts loading windows. I don't know when to press or what to press as there aren't any screen "press this to do this"

**Kane** · May 25th, 2005

Try whacking F1 or the 'DEL' key

Norbi · May 25th, 2005

Well thats done. But, when i press F1/Del this Toshiba menu comes up with 4 pictures. One looks like a stash of cds, other one is 1 cd, 1 floppy and the last one is 2 pcs connected together. There is no text describing what each does. I tried all of them and none get me to the bios. I got to read the user manual to make sure...

Edit: Actually, what i have gotten into is some kind of Toshiba menu. I tried to press F1 and del when booting but del gives that annoying beep and f1 goes nothing. In the manual it said i have use HWsetup (hardware setup) it's a alternative way to chage cpu and other optins other that through the bios. That doesn't work. Re-installed it and still doesn't want to go. I running out of ideas how to get in to that damn bios...

Edit2: Yepp, im in the dead spot. I just found out that to get into the bios of a toshiba laptop, you have to use the Toshiba Utility which in my case doesn't work. When i try to run it it says "Common Module terminated!" I re-installed it with a cd supplied with the laptop and still nothing.
IS there a way to get that untilty working? From Crazy taxi 3 gfx going wierd, thing have turned into a completely different type of thread, sorry going offtopic.

May 24th, 2005	#1 (permalink)
Norbi Do not feed Join Date: May 2004 Location: TBA Posts: 933	Crazy Taxi 3 graphics problem I have a problem in Crazy Taxi 3 being really annoying. While driving it's ok but when i crash into other cars, objects like other cars, lamp posts and bulidings do white for some time before doing back to normal. Anyone knows how to fix this?

May 24th, 2005	#2 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	What graphics card you got? __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

May 24th, 2005	#4 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	I'm guessing this is due to the lack of Pixel shader support. IIRC CT3 asks for DX8 class shaders __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

May 24th, 2005	#6 (permalink)
cooliscool Moderator Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hyda IV Posts: 6,060	Well.. not only the lack of PS support, but it looks like there are some driver bugs there as well, seeing how it looked much better than that on my MX 440. Try to get the latest Omega drivers; the inf is modified to work with Radeon IGP chips. There are always going to be errors on that chip, but new drivers should fix most of your issues. __________________ Fayt: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8GHz @ 3.0GHz [Allendale] (1333MHz FSB), 2GB Crucial DDR2-800 Dual Channel kit @ 800MHz 4-3-3-10, 512MB BFG nVidia GeForce 7950GT OC (650/1600), Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, MSI P6N-SLi nVidia 650i mobo, 200GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2 (NCQ), 80GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2 (NCQ), Lite-On DVD+-RW 16x w/ Lightscribe, Lite-On 16X DVD-ROM, Aspire X-Dreamer II case, Logitech MX518 GG Optical Mouse, Asetek Waterchill kit (distilled water + Red Line Watter Wetter), T.I.M - Arctic Silver Ceramique

May 25th, 2005	#11 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Try whacking F1 or the 'DEL' key __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

May 24th, 2005	#5 (permalink)
Norbi Do not feed Join Date: May 2004 Location: TBA Posts: 933	Damn. There is nothing what can be done to make calm it down a bit?

May 24th, 2005	#7 (permalink)
Samor racing gamer Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NL Posts: 5,255	I'm amazed you got it working with a radeon 7000 at all....

May 25th, 2005	#8 (permalink)
Norbi Do not feed Join Date: May 2004 Location: TBA Posts: 933	Well, running the game isn't hard. Runs real good but the gliches are too annoying. The wierd thing is when i drive slowly or fast without crashing into ANYTHING nothing happens. The grapfics stay good. As soon as the taxi touches anything like a lampoost or a other car, 80% of objects visable around go white.

May 25th, 2005	#9 (permalink)
Samor racing gamer Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NL Posts: 5,255	That sounds like a lack of texture memory. Can you increase the video card memory (many laptops allow to swap system memory with video memory in the bios)? (or try lowering the texture quality or the games' resolution)

May 25th, 2005	#10 (permalink)
Norbi Do not feed Join Date: May 2004 Location: TBA Posts: 933	I normally run it in 640x480 but this has the white gaps. About the increasing card memory, i dont as i turn the laptop on, it shows some Toshiba screen and starts loading windows. I don't know when to press or what to press as there aren't any screen "press this to do this"

May 25th, 2005	#12 (permalink)
Norbi Do not feed Join Date: May 2004 Location: TBA Posts: 933	Well thats done. But, when i press F1/Del this Toshiba menu comes up with 4 pictures. One looks like a stash of cds, other one is 1 cd, 1 floppy and the last one is 2 pcs connected together. There is no text describing what each does. I tried all of them and none get me to the bios. I got to read the user manual to make sure... Edit: Actually, what i have gotten into is some kind of Toshiba menu. I tried to press F1 and del when booting but del gives that annoying beep and f1 goes nothing. In the manual it said i have use HWsetup (hardware setup) it's a alternative way to chage cpu and other optins other that through the bios. That doesn't work. Re-installed it and still doesn't want to go. I running out of ideas how to get in to that damn bios... Edit2: Yepp, im in the dead spot. I just found out that to get into the bios of a toshiba laptop, you have to use the Toshiba Utility which in my case doesn't work. When i try to run it it says "Common Module terminated!" I re-installed it with a cd supplied with the laptop and still nothing. IS there a way to get that untilty working? From Crazy taxi 3 gfx going wierd, thing have turned into a completely different type of thread, sorry going offtopic. Last edited by Norbi; May 25th, 2005 at 19:28.

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