Graphical Bug: white textures and low FPS

Bresenham

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2007

Portugal

W/Mo

28 Aug 2007 at 19:31 - 1
Hey everyone!

I'm having this graphical bug which makes textures kind of disappear and turn into white. At the first, only terrain textures change, but after a while, even the characters appear textureless and the minimap stars to show black squares instead of the regular dots.
Every time this happens, I get a major FPS drop down, turning the game unplayable.

My system is an Asus laptop, specificly an A6Vc, consisting of a 1.7 GHz CPU, 1GB RAM and a GeForce Go 6200 with 256MB RAM.

Sometimes, this problem starts in big places with heavy load on the graphics card, other times when I minimize the game, sometimes just happens. I really thinks it's some random bug related with the drivers I'm using for my graphics card (the one Asus has on their website for this particular laptop).

Here goes a screenshot of what the textures look like when the problem starts to appear (notice the low FPS count):



Thanks for any help!

EDIT: This bug happens to me since my first days of GW. At first, I used the downloadable client but now I've bought the game (Prophecies).I've always played on this machine.

Venomous Toxin

Venomous Toxin

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2006

America

29 Aug 2007 at 01:31 - 2
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bresenham
Hey everyone!

I'm having this graphical bug which makes textures kind of disappear and turn into white. At the first, only terrain textures change, but after a while, even the characters appear textureless and the minimap stars to show black squares instead of the regular dots.
Every time this happens, I get a major FPS drop down, turning the game unplayable.

My system is an Asus laptop, specificly an A6Vc, consisting of a 1.7 GHz CPU, 1GB RAM and a GeForce Go 6200 with 256MB RAM.

Sometimes, this problem starts in big places with heavy load on the graphics card, other times when I minimize the game, sometimes just happens. I really thinks it's some random bug related with the drivers I'm using for my graphics card (the one Asus has on their website for this particular laptop).

Here goes a screenshot of what the textures look like when the problem starts to appear (notice the low FPS count):



Thanks for any help!

EDIT: This bug happens to me since my first days of GW. At first, I used the downloadable client but now I've bought the game (Prophecies).I've always played on this machine.
You need to update the driver. Unfortunately, Nvidia doesn't support that GPU... You can go to http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...howtopic=14549 and use a patched inf. file.

Bresenham

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2007

Portugal

W/Mo

29 Aug 2007 at 20:38 - 3
Hey.

First of all, thanks for the help!

I didn't installed those drivers since they're made for LENOVO laptops. Instead, I've downloaded and installed this drivers, made for Asus' laptops. The version is inferior though...
Anyway, the results were:
-Higher framerate, even with maxed settings;
-The problem didn't show up for a whole afternoon, but it did show up. Last day, it showed 3 times and much more early, even with lower settings.

Those drivers did help, but did not fixed the problem...

So, what should I do now?

Btw, here goes another screenshot of the problem, this time a minutes after it showed up. It got this bad after I entered in an outpost. That's right, someone turned of the lights...



Thanks once more.