Curse

nate_dawg2k4 · May 14, 2005, 06:14 PM // 18:14

In the last 3 days or so I've been having trouble with the character textures becoming blurry and low-res. I've always been able to use the high res textures before, but now they gradually get worse (for instance, when I first begin they'll be high-res, and then get to medium, then later at low, and eventually they'll be so blurry I have to turn off the game in disgust!). I have Intel 82845 graphics, if that helps (I know it sucks, btw. I'm kinda low on cash at the moment.)

EDIT - I just noticed I didn't spell "properly" right... >_>

EDIT #2 - I just noticed that the textures (temporarily) go back to the hi-res ones when I take a screenshot (with printscreen). It doesn't last long, though.

Lunarbunny · May 14, 2005, 08:35 PM // 20:35

Yeah...dunno if you've got the dough (like you said) but I think a few of the people with that crap IGP have been buying PCI graphics cards (I don't think any of those mobos come with AGP slots).

nate_dawg2k4 · May 14, 2005, 08:39 PM // 20:39

Ok, I decided to stop editing my last post. =P

Anyways, I finally isolated the problem. I messed with the graphics settings in GW for a bit, and I figured out the character textures start looking bad whenever I put the environment textures above the lowest setting (which looks like crap, IMO). So... any ideas? As I said in my last post, these settings worked fine until a few days ago (makes me wonder if the updates had anything to do with it... theres an updated they listed near the bottom called "compatibilaty or somethin).

So until then, I get to play with crappy environment textures. Yay!

EDIT - Dude, thanks for posting =P. It makes you feel pretty stupid to be the only one posting in your own topic. BTW, how much do you think I could get a cheap card for? I've got about $60 to spend, and I'll have some more soon.

Kitar · May 14, 2005, 09:07 PM // 21:07

A 9200SE can be had for under 50 bucks.

As for the texture problems, you could try changing your driver to the older version listed in other threads.

nate_dawg2k4 · May 14, 2005, 11:48 PM // 23:48

Thanks for the help, I'll probably get one of those cards, then. The "case" is still open though, the old driver didn't help any =/. Oh yeah, I figured out the textures will get blurry unless it's set at the bare minimum graphics-wise (the in-game options, I mean). The weird thing is that the "ugliness" of the textures gets worse than the low-res when the problem happens. >_<