Author Topic: Need help with graphic glitch (Read 3203 times)

brianzbl · July 09, 2007, 01:45:07 AM

Hey everyone, I played blockland a couple years ago and decided to come back to it by buying the retail version. I got it installed and it works great until I start building. When I put bricks down this happens:

My Windows XP is all up to date, I have the latest version of DirectX 9, and the most recent drivers for my video card so everything should be fine. I have also re-installed the game a couples time with no luck of fixing it. I've messed with the resolution also with no luck. Heres my specs (nothing special but it should run BlockLand):

AMD Sempron 3000+
512MB Ram
ATI Radeon 9600 128MB

Any suggestions?

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Rolland · July 09, 2007, 04:25:28 AM

God, I've never seen artifacts like that O_O I'd say artifacts, but as I just said, I'm not sure...someone else help :o

TheCannon187 · July 09, 2007, 06:28:29 AM

Try adjusting the anistropic filtering and AA. I'm not sure if these are features within the game, but I do not have Blockland on this computer.

Starcraftman · July 09, 2007, 09:31:28 AM

If your running vista then the problem lies with the ATI drivers

Spartan300 · July 09, 2007, 09:42:49 AM

He's running Windows XP.
First off, I suggest going to your CCC, (Catalyst Control Center) and turn everything back to default, and try playing Blockland again.
Also, while you're there, turn off the AA (Anti Aliasing) to the lowest possible option you can, maybe even turn it off if that's possible.

brianzbl · July 09, 2007, 02:10:09 PM

I think its fixed I havn't had the glitch for a little while now. I put everything in my CCC to the original defaults and put the Anistropic Filtering all the way up (for some reason it was at 0). Thank you everyone

StoreClerk · July 09, 2007, 02:14:30 PM

your brick a splode

(MoA) Shaun · July 10, 2007, 09:01:30 AM

do not use ati

brianzbl · July 10, 2007, 04:11:49 PM

Well I thought it was fixed but I went to play again today and its doing it again even worse than before. I've messed with the Anti Aliasing with no luck. Any other suggestions?

TheCannon187 · July 10, 2007, 07:31:55 PM

Try turning off Dynamic Lights, reducing Hardware and Texture Lights in the Graphics Panel.
Then try setting Anisotropy to 0, and reduce the Draw Distance a bit (not too far), the try turning off Precipitation and Trilinear Filtering, Textured Fog and Animated Lights in the Advanced Panel.

brianzbl · July 10, 2007, 08:17:02 PM

Quote from: TheCannon187 on July 10, 2007, 07:31:55 PM

Try turning off Dynamic Lights, reducing Hardware and Texture Lights in the Graphics Panel.
Then try setting Anisotropy to 0, and reduce the Draw Distance a bit (not too far), the try turning off Precipitation and Trilinear Filtering, Textured Fog and Animated Lights in the Advanced Panel.

Messed with that but its still doing it. Any other help would be appreciated.

Badspot · July 11, 2007, 01:57:53 AM

It's some kind memory corruption on the video card. I have a very similar setup (athlon, 9800pro, xp) with no problems. Does it happen at random or the instant you plant a brick? What about with only transparent bricks? (The transparent and opaque bricks use different rendering methods)

brianzbl · July 11, 2007, 08:12:05 PM

Well now it seems to just happen is any brick is on the screen. I dont even have to be looking at it, and it starts doing its thing.

Robohuman · July 11, 2007, 08:55:10 PM

I had this same problem once but when i ingored it my comp broke fortunately i had 2 comps I think you should contact ATI... I never trust ATI thats why i got GeForce 6200

Blackknight · July 12, 2007, 05:17:31 AM

cover up the old mess with a new one