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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / DarkClouds and ATI video card?

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KISTech
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Posted: 9th May 2011 22:13
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This is most likely because the laptop uses an ATI Radeon Express chipset, but has anyone else had trouble with DarkClouds and ATI video cards?

For me on this laptop, the sky looks like a cartoon.

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The Slayer
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Posted: 10th May 2011 00:41
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Mine's an ATI Radeon HD 3870, and I have no problems with DarkClouds.

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Posted: 10th May 2011 01:27
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For curiousity's sake... pix?


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KISTech
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Posted: 10th May 2011 01:38 Edited at: 10th May 2011 01:40
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Screenshot.



It's supposed to be night time, which is why the clouds are dark, and why there's no apparent light source.

On my other 2 machines (not laptops) it runs fine and looks like it should.

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Posted: 10th May 2011 05:30
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looks like counter strike , nice job.


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KISTech
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Posted: 10th May 2011 05:37
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It's probably just the lack of video memory on the laptop.

I'll have to have a Plan B for systems like this.

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Posted: 10th May 2011 10:59
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Have you tried using Evolved's Advanced lighting? It might be a good alternative.

DC is great when it works but I can see a lot of people having problems with it and simul don't seem to reply to questions very often.

I get a similar looking sky (but not quite as bad) here on my work machine and it has an ATI FireGL 3100 card in it.

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Is it not because the sky background's black, and is being rendered transparent?

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Quote: "Is it not because the sky background's black, and is being rendered transparent?"

Could be but I get a similar effect from daytime skies here too...

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KISTech
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Posted: 11th May 2011 00:49
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Quote: "Is it not because the sky background's black, and is being rendered transparent?"


Nope. Otherwise it would do that on all machines wouldn't it? So far it seems to work fine on every NVidia based machine I've tried. Of the 5 computers in the house that can run DBPro based apps, only my laptop has ATI graphics.

Looking up the specs on the FireGL 3100, I would say the issue is a lack of video memory. DBPro wants at least 128MB, but DC probably requires a fair amount more to run properly.

While this isn't a bug, it's sad that Simul doesn't really seem to care about the bugs that have existed for quite a while. Even when it does work, moon artifacts pop up and disappear at random, and a few of the commands simply crash the app. (sigh...)

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