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FPSC Classic Product Chat / Lighting problem. Please help

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Cruise McClarren
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I was using the program fine on my desktop. But when I run it on my laptop with the same basic settings and add a light source, the whole screen gets screwed up. (see attached image) If I just use the ambient light and nothing else, it works fine. I have the full shaders turned off and lightmapping set to medium. Textures are set to medium as well. I have the most current Direct X and am running V.107 FPSC. What is causing this? Please help.

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Thraxas
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Posted: 4th Feb 2008 03:22
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Quote: "What is causing this?"


Integrated graphics card?

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Cruise McClarren
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not sure... maybe. If so, what can I do about it?

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Buy a Nvidia Geforce 8800 Ultra off of Ebay

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Not everybody has money to spend on those sorts of parts.


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Cruise McClarren
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I can't upgrade this laptop. There has to be another way to fix this. I can't believe this program would be that limited.

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Well, how old is the laptop?

If it's pretty old, then I wouldn't blame the software for it. Also, what exactly was the laptop made for? If it can't play FPSC then I don't think it was made for gaming.

You can't expect every computer to be able to run the same things. Some computers just aren't made for the same things as others.


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TGPEG
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My laptop runs FPSC and it's got an intergrated graphics card (20-30fps, full lightmapping and shaders) I've had no problems, but I'll be upgrading to a proper machine soon so...

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Plystire
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I got my laptop about... 5 years ago, and I tried to run FPSC on it, but it was so horrendously slow that I quit trying, lol.


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Cruise McClarren
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this laptop is only about a year old. So it should be fine to run FSPC. Someone else I used to know had a similar problem with his and he fixed it. But I can't get ahold of him anymore so I don't know what he did. IT's a dell Inspiron 1501 with an ATI Radeon Xpress 1150. If nothing else, I guess I'll just have to work with no lighting till I can fix the problem. Any other suggestions would be great.

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Quote: "ATI Radeon Xpress 1150"


There's been a few issues running FPSC on ATI cards, I recall a few people not being able to run FPSC. Check that you have DX9 installed. (Start > Run > 'dxdiag')

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Cruise McClarren
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IT runs FPSC the problem seems to be that it can only handle so much before it just goes crazy hehe. Guess there's not much I can do about it since I can't upgrade this laptop.

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