Corrupt Water (Warping textures)

[Locoteskilla]

I decided to play on Water Hazard after installing forceware 90 drivers, and now I have warping ground textures in the water that move towards me as I drive up to them, also when I crouch in the water, some textures just become one shade of a brown/black colour...

I used drivercleaner pro prior to installing the new forcewares...

in trying to correct this problem, i tried a different set of forceware 90's, the ones which i have currently installed, i've reverted back to XTreme-G 84.37.v2 drivers that worked fine before, i reinstalled half-life 2 and directx 9.0c, i've reinstalled xp2 and still had the problem in sp1, had my gfx card on defaults and half-life 2 on defaults, and nothing has helped... (90's not installed anymore)

it reminds me of what happend when I forced directx 9 mode with my old 5600FX card with 3d-analyze...

it's all a bit rather strange, I hope someone has had this problem and solved it... :dozey:

NOTE: I'll try setting my ram to default timings as a last resort and update this to reflect the result, although it's 466mhz RAM on a 400mhz board running @ 400mhz so it should be fine anyways... seeing as it wasn't a problem before hand...

 

[bigburpco]

Pics?

Also, lower your sig to 4 lines.

 

[Locoteskilla]

Are pictures really necessary? I've explained the problem better if you look

 

[giant384]

i wouldnt use the forceware 90s at all. try 84.21.

 

[okidoki]

Does it look like this?

Installing forceware 91.31 solved it for me.

 

[Locoteskilla]

Oddly enough, searching for your suggested driver releases has lead me to this thread...

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8821027804/m/8321097694

so I hope the 84.21 drivers work fine... I will let you all know when i'm done

 

[Locoteskilla]

righty... here's the update...

uninstalled 92.91's, booted into safe mode, ran drivercleaner, installed 84.21's... it then occured to me that with it possibly been a memory leak, i ensured that i have closed the RX55 memory register, as this had solved my call of duty 2 BSOD problem a while back...

i then noticed a directx 9.0c update (october) so I then installed that...

rebooted, ran half-life 2 and i still have the problem... here's screenshots this time...

firstly 2xAA+4xAF...

http://download-v5.streamload.com/1...locoteskilla/FileManager/d1_canals_060000.jpg

http://download-v5.streamload.com/1...locoteskilla/FileManager/d1_canals_060001.jpg

http://download-v5.streamload.com/1...locoteskilla/FileManager/d1_canals_060002.jpg

and here's no AA+AF...

http://download-v5.streamload.com/1...la/FileManager/d1_canals_060000(noAAorAF).jpg

all a rather bit strange isn't it one improvement though, the warping ground textures are now slightly transparent and not solid... lol

NOTE: think it's worth defaulting my ram timings?

 

[Locoteskilla]

Update...

After adding -autoconfig to the launch options... the problem went away, and then found that... (you take the command out afterwards by the way)

matt_clipz "1" // Disables non visible object rendering...

I think this is the offending article in question, sure sounds like it... no actually, it is...

All a bit strange that a reinstall didn't sort it out... and the fact it only happened after the first installation of forceware 90's...

I'm back to how I normally have things and my usual overclock settings... s'all good... even have fastwrites enabled and that works fine... amazing..!

There you have it folks problem solved