Quake 4 Problem!

Post by **Acidpony** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:00 am

hey guy's i was one of the lucky australia's that picked up a copy befor the street date

but ive run into a problem with my video card....everything is green!!!
But only the models and level's. The env backgrounds and menu's are normal colours!! im running a radeon 9200 (crappy card i know) but it ran doom fine and ive just updated to 5.10 drivers and then i went to 5.9's with out and help....
any one got any ideas on whats wrong?

Post by **^misantropia^** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:40 am

Does it happen in D3 too?

Post by **Acidpony** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:46 am

Nope, Doom3 is fine..how ever it might have something to do with the face that 9200's arnt supported as a recommended video card for quake 4... :-(

Post by **Grudge** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:11 pm

that's probably it

Post by **Don Carlos** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:59 pm

lol

driver updates and dx updates too

Post by **Tormentius** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:13 pm

It needs a minimum of a 9700 according to the official system requirements. Looks like its time for an upgrade.

Post by **Foo** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:29 pm

If this was manifesting itself as a performance problem, I would agree. But it's not, it's a graphical error.

I think you'll have to wait and see for a week or two, that way more people with your card will get the game, and if it's a widespread issue (and it probably is) Raven will make an announcement and issue a patch.

So my advice is hold on.

Post by **Acidpony** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:58 pm

Yeah i figured the same thing. unless its some kind of extra shader extension or something that wasnt in the earlier models? i really have no idea im just taking stabs in the dark.. also someone else on planetquake forums said he's having the same problem so might be a fix yet!

Post by **dzjepp** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:14 pm

The problem is card manufacturers don't like supporting fixes for older cards that are not 'officially' supported by the game. I doubt they will want to fix your problem.

Post by **Psyche911** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:42 pm

Foo wrote:If this was manifesting itself as a performance problem, I would agree. But it's not, it's a graphical error.

I think you'll have to wait and see for a week or two, that way more people with your card will get the game, and if it's a widespread issue (and it probably is) Raven will make an announcement and issue a patch.

So my advice is hold on.

More like ATi will add the issue to their list of known problems, and fix it in a Catalyst release 3 months from now.

Post by **dzjepp** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:50 pm

Yeah that's the only gripe I have with ati at this point. They release a driver once a month and lately they have been lacluster at best (minor game fixes, meh...)

While nvidia releases 2-3 a month (albeit being beta), but they all work great.

Post by **^misantropia^** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:18 am

Enter r_renderer x in the console, substituting x for ARB, ARB2 or R200.

Post by **Acidpony** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:53 am

Thanks! that worked! is there any difference in what one i put? or do they all do the same quality??

Post by **^misantropia^** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:59 am

Not quite. Take a look here: http://wiki.doom3reference.com/wiki/R_renderer_(cvar)
EDIT: the forum screws up the link. Just copy and paste it into your browser's address bar.

Post by **Oeloe** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:29 pm

^misantropia^ wrote:Not quite. Take a look here: http://wiki.doom3reference.com/wiki/R_renderer_(cvar)
EDIT: the forum screws up the link. Just copy and paste it into your browser's address bar.

The wiki is down.

Post by **obsidian** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:16 pm

Iceheart's updating the wiki software.

Post by **player1** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:41 pm

r_renderer "ARB"
fixed this for me

On my Radeon 9000 Wonder.
But introduced new problem with light/dark faces, when half is bright and second half is dark.

Don' know yet how to fix that.