Strange graphics with voodoo 5 5500agp

[Hedoth]

When i start cm it is fine but when i start a battle the text is all messed up, updated the drivers for the card and it didnt help at all.

[Madmatt]

Go into the Voodoo Display Control Panel and try the following (still unsure which one fixes this).

#1 Select the Single Chip Rendering Option

#2 Go into the Direct 3D FSAA panel and reduce the FSAA settings. Some people actually had to reduce it all the way and some had to increase it.

One of this will fix your problem, this is a common problem with the Voodoo 5500 and is caused by a bug in their software. Its unlikely, due to recent events, that its ever going to be fixed by them now though.


Madmatt

[Hedoth]

What event would that be

[Madmatt]

They were bought by Nvidia who have said they will not be providing future tech support for any of the Voodoo line.

Madmatt

[Hedoth]

Man nvidia sucks!, will there will be any more driver updates? Thank you for your response so late at night.

[Blanar]

Hedoth,

I've been happily using my Voodoo 5500 with
CM for the past three months now and am quite
disappointed with the recent turn of events.
However, after much playing and tweaking,
I've found the following:

- Set the FSAA settings in the Direct 3D
screen to anything other than "Fastest Perf."
This solves the garbled text when just
starting the game. I run at 4xFSAA and it
runs and looks great.

- If you ESC to your desktop and then go
back into the game, the text will be garbled
unless you select the single chip rendering
mode. You'll lose FSAA if you do this, so
unless you ESC out alot, I wouldn't recommend
it.

If you do a search in this or the regular
Combat Mission forums there's been many
threads with good ideas on settings to try
for both PC and MAC Voodoo cards. Good luck.

Carl