Topic: Just got SFC III... having all kinds of problems. (Read 1923 times)

Serpo · « **on:** October 12, 2003, 10:35:51 pm »

Aight, well heres whats happened so far. Would really appriciate any suggestions about this.

First off I was getting the Directx problem. It wasn't seeing 9.0b. I got that fixed at first by getting the patch just for that. I also later on got the beta patch and it fixed that alone. I've reinstalled the game several different times, am currently running it with just the directx patch but no beta patch. After that was done I was getting the unhandled exception problem. I couldn't get the campaign or single skirmish working. Eventually I figured out that 1 of two things fixed that part of the problem. 1. I can look at the properties for the shortcut of the game and disable visual themes. or 2. Set my display to 16-bit instead of 32-bit. I've tried both several times. So now that unhandled exception problem was gone. The main problem now is that during the game there are no phaser or shield affects. There also isn't the little green "wave" around that ya see when ya tell your ship to turn one way or another. I'm also getting a weird map distortion that pretty much covers everything in red stripes. Very weird. The only exception to this is that on a couple of rare occations this wave appeared multicolored and distorted for a brief moment. Also in the wolf 359 encounter the borg cutting beams appeard for a split second then stopped appearing. I can still hear the sound affects of weapons firing. I just can't see them. (also can't see torpedos). I have all of the updated drivers for my hardware.

My system specs are as follows:

P4 1.5 Ghz
512 pc133 sdram (yeah I know thats crap)
ATI RAEDON 9700 Pro 128mb
Creative Sound Blaster PCI512
WIndows XP Pro

I've been looking around online for hours for information on how to fix this. I havn't had much luck. I found these forums and figured someone might know something

Thanks much.

vsfedwards · « **Reply #1 on:** October 13, 2003, 03:13:13 am »

Does this look like the same problem as your having?:

here

Serpo · « **Reply #2 on:** October 13, 2003, 04:41:51 am »

Well that problem is much more severe. Though the brief moments I've had of the map and everything in it turning red and distorted might be the same thing. My problems have still mainly continued to be weapon effects.

vsfedwards · « **Reply #3 on:** October 13, 2003, 10:19:55 am »

Hmm, check the option settings to see if the graphics are set to a decent level...other than that could you send a screen shot of a weapon actually being fired?

Regards, Andy.

Serpo · « **Reply #4 on:** October 13, 2003, 10:29:33 am »

I have the graphics turned up all the way. Everything is on. Though I've tried it with different combination of graphic settings to see if one of those caused the problem. Couldn't find anything. A screenshot of ships firing weapons would basically look like two ships sitting on front of eachother waiting for the other to throw rocks at it

Dambreville · « **Reply #5 on:** October 13, 2003, 10:37:49 am »

Latest drivers? Catalyst 3.8 I am guessing. You are lucky you can run the game actually...

my problem... solved
Catalyst 3.8 problems

There are several posts about these issues with new drivers for both Radeon and Nvidia but these were the most pertinent.

I am currently running Catalyst 2.3 and there are no issues...

Serpo · « **Reply #6 on:** October 13, 2003, 10:48:11 am »

Thats really weird... but I will definately try that. I just hope reverting back to a previous driver won't affect my other games too much, but I would think it probably wouldn't. Thanks very much! Will post later how it turns out

Serpo · « **Reply #7 on:** October 13, 2003, 02:28:51 pm »

Well I installed catalyst version 3.0 and everything is working great now. Thanks very much!

vsfedwards · « **Reply #8 on:** October 13, 2003, 03:18:36 pm »

Glad you got it sorted!

Alidar Jarok · « **Reply #9 on:** October 13, 2003, 04:05:33 pm »

I knew the guys here could help you (Not me, I'm incompitant

)

Serpo · « **Reply #10 on:** October 12, 2003, 10:35:51 pm »

Aight, well heres whats happened so far. Would really appriciate any suggestions about this.

First off I was getting the Directx problem. It wasn't seeing 9.0b. I got that fixed at first by getting the patch just for that. I also later on got the beta patch and it fixed that alone. I've reinstalled the game several different times, am currently running it with just the directx patch but no beta patch. After that was done I was getting the unhandled exception problem. I couldn't get the campaign or single skirmish working. Eventually I figured out that 1 of two things fixed that part of the problem. 1. I can look at the properties for the shortcut of the game and disable visual themes. or 2. Set my display to 16-bit instead of 32-bit. I've tried both several times. So now that unhandled exception problem was gone. The main problem now is that during the game there are no phaser or shield affects. There also isn't the little green "wave" around that ya see when ya tell your ship to turn one way or another. I'm also getting a weird map distortion that pretty much covers everything in red stripes. Very weird. The only exception to this is that on a couple of rare occations this wave appeared multicolored and distorted for a brief moment. Also in the wolf 359 encounter the borg cutting beams appeard for a split second then stopped appearing. I can still hear the sound affects of weapons firing. I just can't see them. (also can't see torpedos). I have all of the updated drivers for my hardware.

My system specs are as follows:

P4 1.5 Ghz
512 pc133 sdram (yeah I know thats crap)
ATI RAEDON 9700 Pro 128mb
Creative Sound Blaster PCI512
WIndows XP Pro

I've been looking around online for hours for information on how to fix this. I havn't had much luck. I found these forums and figured someone might know something

Thanks much.

vsfedwards · « **Reply #11 on:** October 13, 2003, 03:13:13 am »

Does this look like the same problem as your having?:

here

Serpo · « **Reply #12 on:** October 13, 2003, 04:41:51 am »

Well that problem is much more severe. Though the brief moments I've had of the map and everything in it turning red and distorted might be the same thing. My problems have still mainly continued to be weapon effects.

vsfedwards · « **Reply #13 on:** October 13, 2003, 10:19:55 am »

Hmm, check the option settings to see if the graphics are set to a decent level...other than that could you send a screen shot of a weapon actually being fired?

Regards, Andy.

Serpo · « **Reply #14 on:** October 13, 2003, 10:29:33 am »

I have the graphics turned up all the way. Everything is on. Though I've tried it with different combination of graphic settings to see if one of those caused the problem. Couldn't find anything. A screenshot of ships firing weapons would basically look like two ships sitting on front of eachother waiting for the other to throw rocks at it

Dambreville · « **Reply #15 on:** October 13, 2003, 10:37:49 am »

Latest drivers? Catalyst 3.8 I am guessing. You are lucky you can run the game actually...

my problem... solved
Catalyst 3.8 problems

There are several posts about these issues with new drivers for both Radeon and Nvidia but these were the most pertinent.

I am currently running Catalyst 2.3 and there are no issues...

Serpo · « **Reply #16 on:** October 13, 2003, 10:48:11 am »

Thats really weird... but I will definately try that. I just hope reverting back to a previous driver won't affect my other games too much, but I would think it probably wouldn't. Thanks very much! Will post later how it turns out

Serpo · « **Reply #17 on:** October 13, 2003, 02:28:51 pm »

Well I installed catalyst version 3.0 and everything is working great now. Thanks very much!

vsfedwards · « **Reply #18 on:** October 13, 2003, 03:18:36 pm »

Glad you got it sorted!

Alidar Jarok · « **Reply #19 on:** October 13, 2003, 04:05:33 pm »

I knew the guys here could help you (Not me, I'm incompitant

)

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