The Colors!
Pfhreak
Join Date: 2002-11-14 Member: 8612Members
in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">Marines sure love them rainbow guns</div> I've been having a strange problem recently. I haven't changed my settings or my hardware, but all of a sudden the light from the marine weapons is incorrect.
Normally, they'd light up yellow-white with the blast from their guns. Now everything lights up with all sorts of colors, reds, blues, greens, yellows. It looks rather strange, and while it doesn't affect gameplay, I was wondering if there was a fix.
I've tried the latest drivers, no luck. Maybe I'll check again tonight. (I tried about a week ago.)
Here's my specs.
Win98
XP2000+
Radeon 8500
512 megs DDR
Thanks,
Pfhreak
Normally, they'd light up yellow-white with the blast from their guns. Now everything lights up with all sorts of colors, reds, blues, greens, yellows. It looks rather strange, and while it doesn't affect gameplay, I was wondering if there was a fix.
I've tried the latest drivers, no luck. Maybe I'll check again tonight. (I tried about a week ago.)
Here's my specs.
Win98
XP2000+
Radeon 8500
512 megs DDR
Thanks,
Pfhreak
Comments
Seriously though, ATI just released 3.1 catalyst drivers for the Radeon series cards. You may want to install/re-install those drivers again to make sure everything is up to date. Also, I think the 3.1 Catalysts need DirectX 9 but I'm not 100% on that.
<a href='http://mirror.ati.com/products/pc/catalyst/index.html' target='_blank'>3.1 ATI Catalyst Drivers</a>
<a href='http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/downloads/drx90.asp' target='_blank'>DirectX 9 Runtime</a>
Pfhreak
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Pfhreak
I was just wondering if there was a rainbow colors option I had somehow missed. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Turn off cl_toomuchacid. Geez, read the manual before posting.
*Please note: sarcasm*
I was wondering what cl_toomuchacid did. I just left it at 1 in my cfg file. Huh, imagine that. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Pfhreak
Sorry for having a laugh at your expense.
so check the fan, make sure the rpm is over 4grand, cause those suckers can get hot. also older ati drivers used to do funny things, so maybe not try the newest drivers, but the ones before them or something
My Voodoo 2 had no fan and no passive heatsinks and in oveheated only in summer (then i put there a passive and it never overheated again) <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> . My Voodoo 3 3000 had passive heatsink and never overheated.