Knight Posted January 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 Thanks B16Enk, very much appreciated, and its soo reasurring that its not just me. i wonder if changing any of the lighting entries in the config would eliminate this problem, as i dont know what half of them do its not something i can mess with confidently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH_RitterCuda Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 knight are you running a clean ,no mod version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted January 20, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 knight are you running a clean ,no mod version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Posted January 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 Yup 2 versions of IL-2 installed...totally vanilla 1946 with the 4.08m, and a totally seperate installation with the mod packs installed...happens on both regardless of settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted January 20, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 XP64: Using 8.12 drivers, this issue is not present! I'm sticking with XP then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Posted January 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 ok after some searching on UBi i found someone else with purple textures, and he said he fixed it by doing the following "under IL-2/1946 graphics options, ticked "Use Hardware Shaders"; changed "Effects lighting" from "normal" to "enhanced" and changed water setting from "1" to "2" and ... purple textures gone!!" Problem is, i dont see enhanced effect lighting at all..id love to try out what he did to see if it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold_Gambler Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 Hey Knight, I don't think this will help your "purple haze". But if you find your card is running a little hot, you can speed up its fan by following this: Originally Posted by bretware Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Posted January 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 FIXED!!!!! it was the Specular setting, it was Specular=2 but after much searching around and understanding the lighting i changed it to Specular=1 and it works...all that for one pigging setting, im not amused lol.. Massive thanks to everyone that helped and suggested things, it was a massive help indeed. Blue No.20 coming to your screen soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted January 20, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 Nice one Knight! Now if I feel the urge to use Vista I know how to fix it, curious that the XP 64 8.12 drivers don't do this! Hey Knight, I don't think this will help your "purple haze". But if you find your card is running a little hot, you can speed up its fan by following this: Massive huge snip (not paid by the word here M8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Posted January 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 One thing i will say though, with turning that down to 1, the transistion of lighting is just on/off and not smooth and progressive as it should be, but that doesnt bother me as it still looks and performs just as good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted January 21, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Sorry overlooked posting this earlier Knight.. Your Xi-Fi sound card has no acceleration enabled, it should handle full hardware acceleration without breaking a sweat.. Also got this response on UBI forums, not tried it yet: Posted Tue January 20 2009 15:24yo, I had some glitches with my ATi 4870 with cat 8.11, 8.10 and 8.9 (I think 8.9 had the glitch, but its hard to recall now) To fix it for me, I had to change the ATI catalyst settings to "High Quality", or "Quality" rather than using custom settings for the AA, AF, Mip mapping, etc. Glitch stopped, and IL-2 sure looked a lot better. My glitch was a bit different as well, had to do with the ground textures looking like I was on acid. Or was I on acid? I can't remember now. Stingray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Posted January 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Sorry overlooked posting this earlier Knight.. Your Xi-Fi sound card has no acceleration enabled, it should handle full hardware acceleration without breaking a sweat.. funny you should say that, i thought it sounded different, but running dxidag and checking the sound tabs i dont have a bar to change it like i did on XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted January 21, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Vista does not support DX hardware acceleration the way XP did... (for Creative cards anyways) Too bad. I think. Oh well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Posted January 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 ahh that would explain that then, never mind its all good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Posted January 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Heres an update for ya just incase anyone else gets this..i noticed someone on ubizoo said the ati 8.12's opengl is porked, and that we should go back to the June release...so i downloaded the 8.6's and ive installed those, IL2 now runs perfectly as it used to, full everything, and no glitches or purple colours and its actually alot smoother. So B16 if ya reading this, your gauge problem might be solved by using these, its worth a shot, ive also not noticed any slow downs in any other sim (FSX-Lockon-BlackShark) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted January 23, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 sadly for me the earliest that support my card are the 8.9s... Beginning to regret switching from nVidia, never ever had insurmountable issues like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Posted January 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Well do you know what, my card isnt supported by them either, but guess what, it works perfectly in everything ive tried so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted January 23, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Well do you know what, my card isnt supported by them either, but guess what, it works perfectly in everything ive tried so far. I'm amazed...and will give it a go, didn't think they would install as the id of the card would have not been recognised. Thanks for the heads up on that, I'm learning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Posted January 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 give it a try and let me know, as it does appear the opengl is totally messed up with the latest drivers Hmm hang about here, if these 8.6's work perfectly, could it be the opengl.dll, so would grabbing the opengl from these and using it with the 8.12's work? this is way over my head and im thinking out real loud here I dont know any other games that i play that use opengl hence why i thought the above may work while keeping the uptodate 8.12 directx drivers in place. Infact im trying the above right now, ill reply rather than edit the results, so it brings it to attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Posted January 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 B16, you are my saving grace...Ok earlier in this thread you said about using a different opengl driver, well at the time i had no idea what version of the opengl would work correctly...but with my recent findings the 8.6's work, i set about grabbing the opengl from that package, doing what you said, and dropping into il2....and im now using 8.12's with the 8.6 opengl.dll in the il2 folder, and its working 100% not a single hiccup...You sir are a legend. And to make it easier for you if you want to try and see if this solves your problem, heres the dll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted January 24, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 I'll give it a shot M8 Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted January 24, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 Hmm. I gelled out and used your dll with XP64 Doh! Realised and grabbed the XP64 version to test.. Curiously this work around doesn't work with my card unfortunately, when I start IL2 the opening screen is blank but loading progress (in red) shows fine. Menu appears (still no background image) and system is clearly struggling as mouse is very slow to respond. Me thinks there is something about the 4870 architecture that does not play well with the 8.6 OGL, yet your 4850 is fine Back to the drawing board whilst I await the next Cats.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Posted January 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 hmm, thats strange indeed, ill have another think aswell and let you know if i come up with something. actually after really putting it through its paces, it doesnt like me going anywhere near the ground as it gets all stuttery and horrible, think ill have to run it in DX mode as its the only mode that works and ill take the frame rate hit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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