The Colors!

PfhreakPfhreak 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
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  • VadakillVadakill The Almighty BSO Join Date: 2002-04-02 Member: 373Members, NS1 Playtester
    Dude, lay off the acid <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    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>
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  • PfhreakPfhreak Join Date: 2002-11-14 Member: 8612Members
    Thanks for the tip, I'll see if it helps at all.

    Pfhreak
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  • PfhreakPfhreak Join Date: 2002-11-14 Member: 8612Members
    No dice. Unfortunately, I still have rainbow marines. It does, however, really light up those skulks I'm shooting at. Just aim for the really trippy blur on my screen.


    ...

    Pfhreak
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  • SirusSirus Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8466Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    What is your video mode? Switch it to OpenGL.
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  • ZerogreatZerogreat Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10537Members
    Reinstall NS?
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  • PfhreakPfhreak Join Date: 2002-11-14 Member: 8612Members
    edited February 2003
    It's OpenGL. And... reinstall NS? It's not <i>that</i> bad....

    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-->
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  • JNighthawkJNighthawk Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8160Members
    Dude, don't be stupid!

    Turn off cl_toomuchacid. Geez, read the manual before posting.


    *Please note: sarcasm*
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  • FireStormFireStorm Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7390Members
    change the gamma cvar.
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  • PfhreakPfhreak Join Date: 2002-11-14 Member: 8612Members
    I do have my gamma set quite high, but the game runs really dark on my machine. Hmmm... worth a try, I suppose.


    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
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  • PfhreakPfhreak Join Date: 2002-11-14 Member: 8612Members
    Here's a screenie of what it looks like when I shoot. For all of you who are interested.
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  • nothingnothing Join Date: 2002-11-18 Member: 9231Members
    I can't be of help, but I must say that screenie gave me a good laugh.
    Sorry for having a laugh at your expense.
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  • SirusSirus Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8466Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Suggestion : PM one of the moderator's, Probably Monsieur Evil. Maybe he can help, and maybe theres some other people with the same problem that were not aware of.
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  • DG-mzeoDG-mzeo Join Date: 2003-01-11 Member: 12159Members
    i'm 99% sure your video card is over heating. check the fan. my old voodoo1 card did that after an hour of playing quake 2 (it never had a fan on it, and was like an oven)

    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
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  • ZerogreatZerogreat Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10537Members
    Wow, thats cool pic <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> .
    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.
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  • DG-mzeoDG-mzeo Join Date: 2003-01-11 Member: 12159Members
    the fan on my gf3 died a while ago, just before the system crashed it would do the same thing as my vd1, and that picture. got a new fan and works fine (new fan spins higher than the old hehe)
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