Curse

zarish · Apr 28, 2005, 01:03 PM // 13:03

I have not had this problem before the retail. During the BWEs everything was fine. Starting yesterday and today my equipped items are graphically corrupted on the inventory screen.

See attached photo.

While this is not a major problem as I rarely use the inventory screen (mostly use the show all bags) it is highly annoying when I go to view what I am wearing to see if something is better or not.

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BTW - I see today's build remembers window locations again.

Sarus · Apr 28, 2005, 02:56 PM // 14:56

Do you still have this problem?

zarish · Apr 29, 2005, 12:45 AM // 00:45

Yes, I get it almost every single time I start the client. I have used the client only twice since the 27th where I did not have this issue; thus I could only only 2 occasions see what my equipped items looked like.

Again, I'd like to point out that this never occurred during the BWEs I was in (although admitteldly that was only 2). I did play quite extensively during those and did restart the client a lot and never experienced this issue.

Things to note. On instances where I was able to see my items uncorrupted both times the first time I opened my Inv they appeared jumbled but on a later opening of the inventory they appeared correctly. From that point on and for the remainder of that gaming session as long as the client was open the items appeared correctly.

Lunarbunny · Apr 29, 2005, 01:32 AM // 01:32

Specs, specs, specs. We generally can't diagnose anything without system specs (hardware/os/and hopefully drivers).
Cpt. Obvious speaking: Have you updated your drivers for whatever video card you're using?

zarish · Apr 30, 2005, 05:15 PM // 17:15

Specs:

Kingwin KT436 w/3 windows No Top Fan or mount (Fans replaced with 4 Aspire Blue cf4sl-uv Fans)
Enermax EG851AX-VH(W)FM 660W + Thermaltake Hardcano 12 + Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 + Asus A8V Rev 2.0 w/o WiFi + 2 Pairs Corsair TWINX1024-3200XL 2-2-2-5 RAM (2GB)
eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra + Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum + Creative GigaWorks S750
RAID 0+1 with 2x Maxtor 300GB DiamondMax 10 SerialATA & 2x Maxtor 300GB DiamondMax 10 ATA133 (600GB usable)
LiteOn 16X DVD SOHD-167T + NEC 16X DoubleLayer DVD±RW ND-3500A BK + SIIG USB 2.0 9-in-1 R/W Floppy

Soundcard:
The Audigy 2 is in a slot PCI slot 4
Drivers are latest from creative's website

Motherboard:
Drivers are latest from Asus for all onboard devices that are enabled.
Via Drivers are latest from Via
Onboard audio is disabled

OS:
Windows XP Professional w/SP2 and all latest windows updates installed.

Videocard:
Prior to retail 71.20 nVidia drivers worked flawlessly.

Retail:

71.20 drivers worked without sound issues. (I have retested they still work fine for extended periods of time, no need to change any PCI latency). However, the 71.20 drivers give a graphical corruption on the equipped items in the inventory screen.

71.89 nVidia drivers display equipped inventory items without issue. However, they cause a click/pop sound when moving around. This click/pop sound has a reduced frequency of occurance when changing the PCI latency to match the other devices in the system.

I have also tested with a GeForce 6800 GT in the same system.

Based on the description of the sound pops I appear to be having a problem similar to the person in this thread when using the latest 71.89 drivers from nVidia. I see there has not been a solution to this as yet. I have tried different resolutions in fullscreen mode. I do not run in windowed mode.

zarish · Apr 30, 2005, 08:23 PM // 20:23

Attached is a zip file containing a .wav recording that I did which demonstrates both a big and little pop as heard with the 71.89 drivers installed.

I have checked Unreal Tournament and Doom3. Neither game experiences any audio anomolies with the 71.89 drivers.

raven214 · May 15, 2005, 06:27 PM // 18:27

I seem to be having the same problem. The strange thing is that it doesn't happen with my other characters - only this one.

specs (played in full-screen):
AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 2.20GHz
1GB Ram
GeForce 6600 GT